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To: TimF who wrote (340857)	6/19/2007 7:21:27 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572631

re: No benefits are up, more so than wages. Benefit 'costs' are up; the benefits people receive, especially health insurance, are down. When employees receive them they pay a larger share. Don't be obtuse you know exactly what was meant. re: Which means "normal life" in terms of possessions and services is better. The middle class mostly has those things, many people with less then middle class income have those things. The fact that people have come to expect a higher standard of living only shows how they have achieved a higher standard of living. No, you can afford a higher standard of living. They can't afford to live like a 'normal' American. re: And tons of people didn't have any college, many not even having a high school diploma. When you take all people without high school diploma's a generation or three ago, and compare them to all the people without highschool diploma's now, your comapring apples and oranges. Adults who haven't graduated HS are now the people on the very bottom. The people on the very bottom didn't have those good paying jobs in 1980, 1950, or any other year you care to mention. Sure they did. re: Only about 15% of bankruptcy filings since the new law has gone in to effect have been chapter 13 filings. They are still screwing people down on their luck. They didn't change the laws for corporations.....