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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trust me, DCUM is not the best place to ask this question.  Most of the people on here think you're poor if you make less than $100k.  And that isn't true.
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Agreed.  DCUM is about 90% rich elitists who insist that they are middle class on $300K, when in reality, the middle class of the DC metro area is about $75-90K, which is about 150% of the national income of the middle class (roughly $50-65K).  Since they consider themselves middle class with 400% of the income of the true middle class, you can expect to get a truly distorted view of the world and the answer to this question from this demographic.[/quote]

I am an independent voter that leans left.  I am a liberal in most of my views.  [b]$300 in DC is ABSOLUTELY MIDDLE CLASS[/b].  Sure they might be able to save, but ISN'T THAT WHAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO!!  If you are making the wages you are talking there is NO WAY...NOT A WAY IN HELL, that you are saving enough for retirement unless you have an employer paid pension or no mortgage.  I make 100K it is like slave wages here.  So the people that make $10 an hour...IMAGINE how they are living.  [b]$300K is just another slave in DC.  The house slave.[/b][/quote]

This is ridiculous and just insulting to people who really are scraping by, not to mention descendants of slaves.[/quote]

We are slaves.  It is just in a different form from back in the day - We are new world slaves.  Do you think we are free?  It was just black people who were enslaved before.  It isn't insulting or ridiculous.  You just don't view yourself as a slave, but more than likely you are one.  If we all realized just how enslaved we are...we might fight.  Barak's entire campaign was based on the premise that YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND YOU NEED TO CHANGE THE WAY THE SYSTEM WORKS.  No one is standing up because somehow we have been brainwashed to think we are free and have rights.  The Richest of the rich are laughing at us.  We are just worker bees.  And for what?  We work to make other people rich, buy consumer products and breed children who will only follow in our footsteps.  We are being whipped.  Not physically, but mentally.  I am a field worker.  I don't make enough to be free and I won't have enough saved to have a fun retirement.  No more pensions.  Social Security is a joke.  Some people are just more fortunate to be a house slave.  [/quote]

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