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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Bonner, post: 1247057, member: 32536&quot;]So a person living in Bolivia is middle class because people in Brazil are better off and people in Peru are worse?</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe.&nbsp; But I think there is a better definition somehow involving quality of lives. But bound by geography, a small town in Alabama in 1969 mostly was made up of middle class, meaning everyone had a TV and most had a bathtub.&nbsp; In 2009 everyone had a TV and a bathtub and a cellphone and a wwwdot connection, but many were in debt, and did not have the quality of food, healthcare, education, and freedom of transportation that they did in 1969. So. Their Middle class status was eroded by themselves i admit but it was none the less eroded. I made mention of the flat line income status that I have enjoyed from 1969 to 2009 but it was only with continual education and advancement that I was able to maintain. Most were not so lucky. And- if we use my 10X index I would have to be making $3000 a week to be in the same socioeconomic class that I was in in 1969.&nbsp; So it appears to me that The US class structure has slipped toward a very rich and very poor model and the Middle class, has to be redefined like making ketchup a vegetable, and defining auto assembly as a &quot;service&quot; to maintain middle class status for our citizens.&nbsp; If it don&#039;t fit.. change the name of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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