Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 15:26:08 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <wes@obie.softweyr.com> To: fpawlak@execpc.com (Frank Pawlak) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Lifestyles of the rich and shameless (no longer US Immigration) Message-ID: <199806172126.PAA28370@obie.softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <980617154140.ZM12469@darkstar.connect.com> from Frank Pawlak at "Jun 17, 98 03:41:40 pm"
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Wes Peters celverly scripted:
> > Except the government was systematically destroying "America-as-it-was" and
> > creating the suburban welfare state we now enjoy. Of coure in the 1950's
> > it was far too early to see the damage they had done.
Frank Pawlak wrote:
> I take it that you are referring to the systematic way that the rich got richer
> and the poor got poorer, the disappearance of the middle class through tax law
> changes? I agree "America today" is not "America-as it was" then. sigh!
Pretty much, except the poor actually got richer, too. Try explaining
to a refugee in West Africa that living in a brick building with
electricity, running water, and two televisions is poverty. Most
"Americans" completely fail to understand that our "lower middle
class" lifestyle in indistinguishable from "rich" to much of the
world.
The fact that the biggest day-to-day concern in my life right now
is the horrid traffic I drive through going to and from work shows
what an easy life I have. It doesn't even stop me from driving my
daughter to my mother's house, through 60 miles of commute-time
traffic, once a week. I kvetch about this constantly, and denigrate
the "leadership vacuum" in my fiar state (Utah) that led to this
mess, but I wouldn't trade it for anywhere else I know. Believed
me, I've lived a *lot* of places (in the USA), and if I knew of
something better, I'd just move there. My skills are pretty
portable, and much in demand. ;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com
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