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Re: OT : what is middle class poverty?
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Posted by Kestrel in CT on January 11, 2007 at 07:31:16 from (71.235.9.43):
In Reply to: OT : what is middle class poverty? posted by Dave from MN on January 11, 2007 at 05:04:21:
I also have never understood how so many people have new cars, new homes, and buying things I would never buy until I had the cash. But now in my advancing age I think I know the answer. From the time we are born to the time we die, we are marketed to death. Whatever you do, wherever you go, whatever you read or watch on TV- bammo...there's an ad or dumb commercial hitting you in the face. There's too many people trying to sell us all too much junk. Even the conservative Wall Street Journal has been running full page color ads for Stihl chainsaws. So yachts and mansions aren't enough anymore ? Throw all this media brainwashing in with a little human greed and lack of restraint and wala....a " poor middle class" is created.
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