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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I still do not understand the almost aggressive way DCUMers making $300K want to be called middle class. Why are you not proud of having achieved more than 95% of other people?

That's like telling people your kid with 4.5 GPA is an average student. It doesn't make you seem humble, it makes you seem hopelessly greedy. "I have soooooo much, but I want MORE."[/quote]

The reason why has been pointed out numerous times in this thread. Your lack of understanding boils down to being dense at this point.

Of course I am proud of my achievements. I live a disciplined life of hard work, with long hours and tireless dedication. I pay a huge amount in taxes each year, and the lifestyle I live is not fabulous, just marginally better than the average middle class. Yet at every opportunity, liberal politicians label me as the rich, they claim I don't pay my fair share. They use their position of power to rally the masses against the likes of me in order to advance their agenda. People like you then pile on top telling me how good I have it. Yes, I have it good, but it's not as good as you imagine it. I am more like you than I am like someone in the top 0.5%. We share the same concerns, we have the same need to stay working to support a family. [/quote]

As a middle class person, here are the luxuries I imagine that you have

I imagine that you own your own home, either a rowhouse in the city or a SFH, and a guaranteed place to park the car within a block or so.

I imagine that if you have kids under school age, they have childcare arrangements that you chose carefully, and that if your kid are school age, you felt that you had some degree of choice in where you sent them to school, either because you could afford to live in an area where you liked the private schools, or because you can afford the time and gas to drive them to a charter school in another part of the city, or because you send them to private.

I imagine that you drive a car that, most of the time, you can rely on because it runs well, and that if it unexpectedly broke down tomorrow, you'd be able to replace it with something else reliable.

I imagine that if your child, like mine, developed a life threatening medical condition, you wouldn't need to pick up extra hours at work, like I did, to pay for the doctors.  In fact you might even take time off to be there to support your child.

I imagine that you have central air conditioning, and your own washer/dryer, and that if one of these things breaks you call someone to fix it, rather than doing without.

I could go on.

Am I really wrong in what I imagine that you have that I don't?  Am I really the one who doesn't understand how you live, rather than vice versa?  [/quote]

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