Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Friends, before this shoots in nine different directions I would simply like to point out that this is obviously a report designed to cause fighting and finger pointing among a fairly large section of the population. So before someone with a bleeding heart tries to turn the upper middle class into the next Rockefellers, let's have a real talk about this report
They have the upper middle class claiming almost 30% of the population, how is that possible? They have a rather large window of $100,000-$350,000 and I remind you that the actual middle middle class and lower middle class and whatever sections of the lower class all must fit under the $100,000 ceiling. So please take a moment to examine this bullspit report.
The number of Americans who make over $150,000 per year is less than 3% of the population. So what this report did was turn a police officer and teacher who combine for $100,000 a year and turned them into $350,000 a year upper middle class citizens...can you not see the major problem here? Socialist type views and wanting to redistribute wealth is leaking into the average common worker.
I find this report revolting. It manages to do exactly what I have been warning folks about for years in terms of how people view others who obtain success or simply want to try and see just how far they can make it in this life. They took a fairly good chunk of people who live in households where the combined income is $100k-$150k, I imagine that hits home for many on this board. But when you break that down between husband and wife or couples of any gender and you see that we are really talking about people making $50,000 a year and that is not viewed as upper middle class when you have 2 of them living in 1 house which could just be a 1 bedroom apartment in many big cities.
This report makes me vomit in my mouth. It perverts the reality. If you doubt me in any way go watch Inequality for All which shows the horrific path of the avg American worker in this country. This report wants folks who make $35,000-$40,000 a year to turn on their co-workers making $60k or to suddenly view them as rich or upper middle class if they happen to be married to someone else making $40,000 a year. The social engineering to make people think that regular working folks are rich is just incredible to me. We cannot allow this to go unnoticed. These reports would make people think that times are rolling right now and they simply are not for most people.
$100,000-$350,000? I want to see the real numbers of the middle class which IMO $100,000-$150,000 a year for a family of 3+ is pretty solid middle class, how is that 1 step from a wealthy cat? They took a small fraction of the population and thrust that into the middle class to make it appear like there is a huge upper middle class that is thriving in this country and I simply disagree with that nonsense. This is more BS to make working class citizens feel guilty for wanting to have a decent life.
They have the upper middle class claiming almost 30% of the population, how is that possible? They have a rather large window of $100,000-$350,000 and I remind you that the actual middle middle class and lower middle class and whatever sections of the lower class all must fit under the $100,000 ceiling. So please take a moment to examine this bullspit report.
The number of Americans who make over $150,000 per year is less than 3% of the population. So what this report did was turn a police officer and teacher who combine for $100,000 a year and turned them into $350,000 a year upper middle class citizens...can you not see the major problem here? Socialist type views and wanting to redistribute wealth is leaking into the average common worker.
I find this report revolting. It manages to do exactly what I have been warning folks about for years in terms of how people view others who obtain success or simply want to try and see just how far they can make it in this life. They took a fairly good chunk of people who live in households where the combined income is $100k-$150k, I imagine that hits home for many on this board. But when you break that down between husband and wife or couples of any gender and you see that we are really talking about people making $50,000 a year and that is not viewed as upper middle class when you have 2 of them living in 1 house which could just be a 1 bedroom apartment in many big cities.
This report makes me vomit in my mouth. It perverts the reality. If you doubt me in any way go watch Inequality for All which shows the horrific path of the avg American worker in this country. This report wants folks who make $35,000-$40,000 a year to turn on their co-workers making $60k or to suddenly view them as rich or upper middle class if they happen to be married to someone else making $40,000 a year. The social engineering to make people think that regular working folks are rich is just incredible to me. We cannot allow this to go unnoticed. These reports would make people think that times are rolling right now and they simply are not for most people.
$100,000-$350,000? I want to see the real numbers of the middle class which IMO $100,000-$150,000 a year for a family of 3+ is pretty solid middle class, how is that 1 step from a wealthy cat? They took a small fraction of the population and thrust that into the middle class to make it appear like there is a huge upper middle class that is thriving in this country and I simply disagree with that nonsense. This is more BS to make working class citizens feel guilty for wanting to have a decent life.
I'm extremely lucky. But I see a lot of folks who do not have it as good and I want others to succeed, not get a huge government handout but come up thru the system and achieve and succeed but many are being socially engineered to become victims in our society, that's a horrible outlook and way to walk thru life and you know I speak the truth, I live it on an almost daily basis. 
