powayseller, good thoughts. Until recently I didn’t even realize that the median income is around 40K. That is pretty low. Right now my wife and I both work (we are DINKs, Double Income No Kids). Combined we are at 150K. We have no mortgage and just one car payment. That should be done in eight months. We could ride out a rather long dry spell if we had to. It took a lot of work getting here though. When we got married 22 years ago I was making $18K and I think she was making $16K. Several career changes have brought us to today. The thing is, we don’t feel rich (and know we aren’t). I wonder how in the world a family makes it on 40K . They sure as heck aren’t doing much other than paying for living expenses. I get erked when I hear what some CEOs make a year. Incredible salaries and bonuses, and some of the companies aren’t doing very well.
Thing is, not everyone WANTS to work. I know people where I grew up that are tickled pink to be on welfare. They don’t have to work and they don’t appear to want to work. It disgusts me. I know a person that was in a car accident and got on perminent disability. He actually works as a day laborer sometimes for cash (he appears to be fine physically), but doesn’t want to do anything that would cause him to lose his “check”. He actually refers to the check as his “take home pay” So, his family lives at about poverty level because they don’t want to chance losing this free money by going out and finding a job. I’m not sure the government is helping at all with all the different programs.
