[ClearCase_guy]

My family is solidly middle class, and we feel like we're struggling. We've cut back in quite a few areas, because times are tough and no one knows the future.

We know quite a few people with incomes significantly lower than ours -- and those poor people all seem to live a lot better than we do: better vacations, better cars, more gadgets.

America! What a country!

[cherry]

oh absolutely....look at people's food carts.....here we buy the basics on sale, and some just come and buy tiny sizes of name brand stuff that you know is a lot more expensive than store brand.....

but why would these graphics upset anyone?......deep down there are so many Americans who look at work as a joke.....why not stop working and enjoy your home and your family....have USam pay you unemployment for 3 yrs and then apply for disability....

believe me, my sil/bil have done very very well on their various "disabilities"......sports cars, extra houses, property, truck, suv, etc etc.....

workers are getting the finger good and hard...

[Bshaw]

The sad reality is they are trying to eliminate any difference between the producers and the Looter-Moocher classes Ayn Rand described.

The only discernible difference is our poor are far more likely to become overweight while on the public dole.... That’s a fact!

I cannot imagine being unable to pay for my own food, much less expect someone else to purchase it for me, rent, utilities, EBT, phones.... We’re being plundered!

[Cringing Negativism Network]

C’mon people wake up:

MAKE IT IN AMERICA.

[EVO X]

We know quite a few people with incomes significantly lower than ours -- and those poor people all seem to live a lot better than we do: better vacations, better cars, more gadgets.

It would be my guess they are unlikely saving anything substantial for retirement.

[Cronos]

Depends on some factors -- you may have more people in your family, you may be supporting more charities, more people (extended relations etc.)

And, you most likely have proper fiscal sense -- saving money, not living on credit

The people you mention may be blowing away their money and living on credit