[FBD]

I don't know, figures lie, and lier's figure, so the truth is usually somewhere in the middle. I like factcheck.orgs articles, and according to them, the middle class is slightly shrinking, and wages are slightly down, but not as much as Democrats would like folks to believe. Unfortunately they are down. (-1.2% between 25K-75K & -.04 % above75K)

Kerry's Dubious Economics-"He says new jobs are paying $9,000 less than the old ones. That's not a fact."

Update on Kerry's "Shrinking Middle Class" -- Still Shrinking in 2003 "We said his claim was based on stale numbers. Now some fresh statistics support what he said."

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But there is definitly something wrong with coporate stockholder mentality, when companies reward failure CEO's like CEO Carly Fiorina of HP, with a 21 million severance package, while the company is losing money and outsourcing jobs like crazy to India.

And software and computer companies aren't alone in this stupidity. Sorry to sound negative, but the attitudes of many politicians and corporate heads toward the middle class, and blue collar workers just isn't right. They treat them like crap. Why, I haven't a clue. But they do. http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/09/technology/hp_fiorina/

[Southack]

Oh, it's true that the middle class is shrinking, but that's because more and more Americans are now rich!

And that's a good thing.