9 ways to know if you're middle class

Bluntly put, the uthor of this article needs to be commited to an insane asylum strapped down buck naked to a gurney and forced to watch old "30 something" episodes.

The idea of a middle class is what is defined by upper class. Just as history is written in favor of the victor.

Realistically, the "middle class" is more like a delivery driver making $10-13/ hr (21k-28k/ yr) and his wife/ gf making roughly the same being a clerk, midmanager of sorts. That is roughly $55-60K/ yr factoring in overtime or bonuses., fof BOTH together.  

The concept of a household making $55-60k/ yr with child(ren), insurance, carpayments, taxes, etc--not counting judgements, leins and other financial obligations----

Well, you get the picture....

The problem is with this article (and other incompitent pundits and "ANALysts) is that the authors base their research from jackwagons with no REAL TIME contact with society at its grassroots.

I'm 70 years old . never worked

any job more 3 years. But I still feel that I'm ahead of the game. My total bills are only $2000 a month.Because I've always lived within my means. Even though I wear alligator shoses. I never get anything on credit. In my city I can caddy,sell earrings in the streets etc:I feel sorry for people who have to work to make ends meet.Never had a wife never had any personal friends never had kids. I've never been under water. No rainy days stops me     Sell umbrellas at last stop on some subway line

We have an income of nearly 135k per year. I can pay for daughters college, my two teenage sons, and put about 20K a year away for retirement. I have a 300k home with a 130k mortgage. two cars that are 2006 and 2004........

If I am middle or upper middle class, i sure want to know where everyone gets all their money, as I sure just pay my bills and hang on. Hoping that someday I might retire.

I am not living high on the hog, that is for sure, but I can pay my bills. I think they really over play how well off someone is. If you make more money, you pay full boat for college, not reduced by fafsa, I pay for all my medical insurance through work.

Any way, you need to make way more than I am to get ahead.

In reading through this list, I thought it's not terribly well reasoned because circumstances differ so enormously from one individual or family to the next. Yet it was consistent and somewhat revelatory. I saw no overt political slant but a report on the statistically derived sensibilities of a bare majority for I'llbombya as an aside.

Then I read the comments of the Republican right wing asylum dwellers. Christ on a stick! Do you guys have a clue about anything other than what the morons on Faux News tell you to believe? Do you honestly think that the Republican party represents YOU?

They despise you more than the Democrats do and treat your aspirations as rungs on their ladder.

When they reach their elevated status they kick that ladder down so YOU can't get up there. Yet you keep voting for them and defend the indefensible position you have taken.

I do not consider the Democrats to be the nations' salvation but the effing neo-con conspiracy of false hopes and corrupted reasoning is incomparably worse. There is truly a lesser evil. That any implication that you are in the MINORITY, that your views suck, angers you.

Just because you have ACTED stupid doesn't mean you must keep repeating the same act. At some point it becomes insanity. I mean, read your stuff. Does it really translate to activity that supports your aims? 

You're losers. Quit fighting the Civil War. It's over. Propose progressive conservative agendas instead of unscientific religious blubbering. Make yourselves relevant to the future of the world.

I don't like the Dems either but at least they don't consider me to be of no use to them. I'm not going to register for the feed lot of the rich. Neither should you.