They’re just not speaking up, but I don’t feel that most Piggs (as representative of Joe and Jane 6p) really believe in a “gloom and doom” scenario for the US as expressed here by some posters. Nor do I believe the country is in a downward spiral. I just think we’re in a “transition” of sorts which will bring us all to a different expectation of what it means to be a middle-class American (yes, upper middle-class included).
Over the last 15 years, especially, expectations of how a poor thru upper-middle class citizen should be able to live have gone thru the roof.
These “expectations” were and are unrealistic and unsustainable for most families.
The presence or absence of a “college education” for one or more heads of household really have nothing to do with it.
And no, I don’t have any chip on my shoulder. All my needs are taken care of and will continue to be throughout the rest of my life, whether I work part-time, full-time or not at all for stretches of time.
