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The thing is, our standard of living in this country has crashed but nobody seems to want to say it.  You must now be a top income producer to live in the same manner that the average income producer lived 40 years ago.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, sucks hard.  
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You have got to be kidding me.  You don't have to be in the top 5% to own a car, else why are there 125 million of them on our roads?  As for new technology, I don't see a single person on the bus that doesn't have a cellphone, and the stores on the day after Thanksgiving are crowded with many obviously lower income people buying flat screen TVs, Playstations, and Xboxes.  You can buy one of those flat screen TVs, by the way, for about $300-$400.  You know what a color TV cost in the 1980s?  About $450-550.  And you can now buy a very good laptop that does everything in the world for about $500, compared to about $3,000 for a "386" glorified typewriter in 1988 or so.  Meanwhile you can still buy a meal at McDonalds for about $3.  This is not to say that the poor don't have it bad, but their standard of living is through the roof compared to 30 years ago.  As for middle income people, how does the average high school student send 200 texts in an average week, as I read somewhere last week, if they don't have a cellphone?  When I was in high school having my own phone (which I paid for) was rare and a luxury.  Now every kid has his own phone.
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