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To: steve harris who wrote (302258)	9/4/2006 9:58:40 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) of 1575981

>Looks to me you guys are thinking wages aren't keeping up with profits. Just in the last two days a ton of data has been posted to show just that. >Don't discount the reality of all those outsourcing jobs going overseas. As was also posted this week, the income disparity was growing before the ascent of China and India. >Btw, my paycheck has been going up every year since I entered the work force when I graduated college Which is why you have enough time to post here. Same with me. But are either of us representative of the middle class that's being squeezed? Not really. I have health insurance. I have a (small) retirement fund. I make a good living. I know many people who don't, and that they try very hard to have those things, and can't get them. They might not be as capable, they might not have had the education or the training... doesn't matter why, but I do care more about the future of people like them than I do about people like me. I'm going to be fine. I think you're probably going to be fine. The point is that it's harder to move back up once you've gone down than it is to go back down after you've gone up, and if the economy is bringing more people down than it's bringing up, even if it's bringing those people up a lot and making it all "even out in the wash." A friend of a coworker of mine just died of cancer at 52 because he had no health insurance and couldn't afford to go to the doctor to get it diagnosed. He finally went when he felt really ill and was told he had one week to live. Another coworker of mine never goes to the doctor because she can't work full-time and get health benefits because she's a single mom who's trying to care for her 8 year old daughter. These are the people I worry about, and the reality is that these type of people are becoming more and more common. Is that OK to you? -Z

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