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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"This is ridiculous. Very few UMC families are in elite circles with the rich and powerful. Many of us are simply dual income white collar worker bees."

Then you're not UMC. And you don't realize that many, if not most, of "the powerful" have salaries of $200K or less. You might have a nice income, but you don't belong to that elite UMC grouping. UMC people are not worker bees.  Many work around the clock, but their work often involves higher level thinking and relationship building. Or they have skills and credentials that garner high salaries, like physicians or CPAs. These aren't people who punch a time clock or get paid overtime. They might only earn about the same as a DC cop with seniority who pulls lots of overtime and side gigs, but how they earn that money is very different. [/quote]
I am a CPA and my spouse is a physician (since you brought those two professions up) and I echo what PP said: this is ridiculous. We don’t hang out with the rich and the powerful, we’re not inviting Congresspeople and their staff to our kids’ baptisms, and neither are most of our CPA / physician coworkers. I wouldn’t dare call our family middle class, though.[/quote]

I’m the PP who said ridiculous and we are in similar professions - finance and law. We are worker bees in that we have to work a 9-5 job to maintain our lifestyle. We couldn’t be unemployed indefinitely without downsizing. I wonder which professions PP considers UMC - lobbyists?

In general I see a tendency on here to exaggerate what UMC means. Maybe so posters can continue to feel “poor” despite the luxuries they have? Newsflash: only 2% of children in the US go to non-religious private schools. It is firmly an UC practice.[/quote]

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