>>>No unfortunately, you're not understanding some basics of the US economy, which allows you to read the "stuff" (ut won't allow me to use the word I really want to use) on heritage foundation.
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>>>84,000 and above is the income of 20% of the households (a family living under 1 roof). I do believe there is a fundamental change occurring with the US economy. I was reading about this a while back. How people were earning upwards of $20/hr from factories in rust belt cities. Now their jobs are shipped overseas, the jobs left for them pay maybe $12-14/hr.
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>>>Much like the long tours forced on our US military straining families, so does this reduction in pay.
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>>Here is a view point from my area – Silicon Valley, related to degreed electronics engineers and dot com employees. We lost 60,000 electronics engineering jobs when manufacturing went to Austin, Texas in early 1990’s.
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>>2001 saw the dot com bust and we lost 192,000 related jobs. People that stayed in the area typically had to change career fields and earn 30 % less then before. This is one reason why I told my son and daughter to stay away from technology and they did!
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>What did they go into Tom. Arms sales ?

lol. I went into programming. How the mighty have fallen! :)