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Re: Machine shop chatter (no lbc)

To: pilotrob@webtv.net, shelden3@pldi.net, spritenut@comcast.net
Subject: Re: Machine shop chatter (no lbc)
From: RBHouston@aol.com
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:14:47 EST
In a message dated 3/1/2006 4:36:00 AM Mountain Standard Time,  
pilotrob@webtv.net writes:

With  "5th floor types" making nearly 500
times what the average worker makes  today and the middle class slowly 
disappearing accordingly, the average worker  can no longer afford the quality 
he
could back when he had a larger slice  of the
pie considering the average "5th floor types" made only 24 times  what the 
average worker made back in the mid 60's.

What your seeing is  a result of a mass
transfer of domestic wealth over the last
40 years,  and most especially in terms of "rate", over the last 15 years.

We're  getting exactly what the average worker can afford to buy in terms of 
quality  these days, accordingly.



Ya know Captn, I'm impressed by your statistics, but as I ponder them  on the 
drive home and drive throught the new housing developments springing up  
here, with hundreds of new homes, severl times the size of my parent's home, I  
have to wonder if reports of the death of the middle class are somewhat  
exaggerated.  Perhaps it's only in CT?
 
Although I am sure both spouses are working, there are certainly a large  
number of folks buying big, expensive houses and driving new cars around  here. 
 
I must commute with a couple of hundred CEOs every morning, judging  by the 
nice cars they drive.
 
 
Robert  Houston
Texan in NM

73 MG Midget
74.5 MGBGT
63  TR4

Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first  woman she 
meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill  again... 
(http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/23877.html#email)   
(http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Unknown/) Marin  County newspaper's TV 
listing for "The Wizard of  
Oz"




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