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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bahabully, post: 1139603, member: 17555&quot;]I don&#039;t define USA middle class that way.&nbsp; I define middle class folks as &#039;hard workers&#039; who can afford a nice house (nicer than thier middle class parents),,, can afford a couple cars,,, can afford to send thier children to college,,, can afford medical care,, and after working hard for a lifetime, can afford to retire at an age where there exists a bit of healthy life remaining before hitting the nursing home.....&nbsp;&nbsp; good luck with any of those in today&#039;s systematic QE, unless those dollars hit your salary in the USA,,,, gooood luck.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now using your &quot;average working people&quot; as a definition of middle class,,,,, then I guess &quot;middle class&quot; is a dynamic state that can range from improverished (maybe Cambodia as an example) to rich (some oil righ arab states)..... I chose to define middle class based on a classes ability to secure certain somewhat normalized &#039;things&#039; as above.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>....The nuclear industry loves that sliding scale definition of &quot;accident&quot; also........&nbsp;&nbsp; that way they can describe the current nuclear fallout from the Japan facility as only an middle&#039;ish accident.. no big deal....&nbsp; be calm... don&#039;t panic.... a little radiation &quot;never killed anyone&quot;..... and even in Russia, only 4000 folks got cancer and &quot;3000 of those were cured&quot;,, temporily cured that is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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