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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are kissing $300. It's solid money. A little more would enable a lot, but that's always going to be the case.

So OP is nuts.

However... What is seriously sad in my view is that the basics: retirement, quality education, healthcare in your old age, a small nest egg for your kids when you pass - all of these things SHOULD be middle class but aren't.

It's ridiculous that it takes an income of $200 or $300 (or as some would argue, more) to achieve these basic fundamentals. Being middle class should afford you all of the above with perhaps some sacrifice - my parents generation experienced that to a large degree - but somewhere in the last 30 years that's changed.

This isn't a rant on the rich or even the shift of wealth, it's a lamentation that as a country we've forgotten that these basics should be basics. Today, when someone says they contribute to 401k, pay for school, have healthcare and a good emergency fund - we don't call them middle class - we call them rich or well off. That's just wrong.

Something needs to change in this country - retirement is now for the rich, quality education (much less college) only for the lucky or the wealthy. I love the US but sometimes it feels like this place has it's priorities all completely fucked.

Signed, middle class rich guy [/quote]

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