re: #125 Justanotherhuman

First of all, SS and Medicare are not entitlements—people pay into those. Secondly, the criteria for middle class is a lot of BS: if you make the “average” household income of around $53K/yr as a couple in this economy and have any kids at all, disaster is just a job loss away. Most Americans are not middle class as I grew up thinking about it—the professional, merchant, and managerial classes, not the schlubs who worked for someone at an hourly wage—those are working class, a designation no one even discusses any more because it sounds too much like labor even if you sit at a desk all day and don’t get your hands dirty.

I think we’ve gotten to the point where the Marxist terms apply. They bourgeoisie is virtually non-existent.