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Rah, Rah. Rah mouse, see that severed artery slap a band aid on it.

Bill Clinton fixed all that for you so good that Hillary tried to distance herself from his overseas policy. Nixon gave you multiple raises to your SS.

Remember when our heroes came home from WWII determined that they would not live through another depression, and the unions became strong enough to enable production workers to earn a decent wage under better conditions? Remember when the effects of higher wages for production workers forced employers to increase the salaries of middle class management? Remember when Nixon and his cronies devised a means of enabling the big corporations to make their profits (already more than adequate) obscene, by moving their operations offshore? Remember how Nixon allowed the corporation's tax exemptions to offset the cost of shipping our jobs overseas? Remember when Nixon after causing a recession through job losses took away the tax exemptions for group insurance and car payment interests? Remember how Nixon attempted to reduce the effects of his recession by freezing wages but not prices? Remember when Reagan busted the Air Traffic Controllers Association and removed many of the safety regulations? Remember when Bush II got us into another Mid East war by lying about Saddam Hussien having WMD's? Remember when Trump borrowed $8.7 trillion thereby putting the USA in deeper debt than we had ever been and reducing our international credit standing?

dog butler not butt, sorry

It's awesome now, I can afford to eat anything I want, cable tv, netflix, movies, internet, one car/ one pickup. Getting 4.5% on my savings, SS, and Medicare. If only I could had that at sixteen. Have savings, cars paid for, houses paid for and sitll according to butt I'm still not middle class, sad.

This web site shows NC has a range of $44,983 and $134,962 to be considersd as middle class.

https://www.google.com/amp/...y-2024.amp

You can't afford to live in Charlotte now , thanks to Joe

People are still in the middle class. I made a lot of money when under Carter off high interest. I got a house in Charlotte for $22K and sold it for $48 just a few years later.

Now it takes $120 k to be middle class Interest rates were 17 % under Carter

Went to work at 16 after school. Summers I had full time jobs. I saved to buy my own car. Parents didn't help me with anything. The only thing I got until age 16 was enough food to keep me alive. Was it my parents fault, NO. They did the best they could, times were hard on some. Was I happy, yes. I was loved and protected which means alot. My mom would fought till her death for me/ family.

No I don't remember that. College was out of the question. Savings LMAO, our saving was digging for pennies in the couch or chair. So tell me Anonymoose where did the one parent work? We were lucky to get food for everyday. Is times better, YES.

Dad had a pention.

Yes, one car.
One black and white tv.
No cable.
No internet.
One land line phone.
Mc Donald's once a month.
Grocery shopping once a week.
1 case of pop once a week.
Mutt from the pound.

We consume more now.

I think you misspelled Ronald Raegan

Was that when worker unions were strong?

I remember that world , Jimmy Carter almost ruined it just like Biden

Nope....Both my parents worked in factories and had a garden.

No, I don't remember that. I remember one parent working but everyone was poor. I remember no indoor bathroom, no running water, no school lunch. If you want those days back, you are insane,