This is very likely to happen in the USA……….Soon

[Ex-SD]

For Europe’s Middle-Class, Stagnant Wages Stunt Lifestyle

LES ULIS, France — When their local bakery in this town south of Paris raised the price of a baguette for the third time in six months, Anne-Laure Renard and Guy Talpot bought a bread maker. When gasoline became their biggest single expense, they sold one of their two cars.

Anne-Laure Renard, a teacher, and Guy Talpot, a postal worker, sold one car and bought a bread maker to cut expenses. Prices have risen four times as fast as salaries in France in the last year.

Their combined annual income of 40,000 euros, about $62,500, lands Ms. Renard, a teacher, and Mr. Talpot, a postal worker, smack in the middle of France’s middle class. And over the last year, prices in France have risen four times as fast as their salaries.

Story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/business/worldbusiness/01middle.html?em&ex=1209787200&en=52029311ec1217e0&ei=5087

[XBoxBoy]

Totally irrelevant to the USA. Why here in the USA the government assures me that inflation is maybe 2% at most. And now that stimulus checks are going out, I’m sure I’ll be able to get a big fat raise real soon.

XBoxBoy

[XBoxBoy]

Totally irrelevant to the USA. Why here in the USA the government assures me that inflation is maybe 2% at most. And now that stimulus checks are going out, I’m sure I’ll be able to get a big fat raise real soon.

XBoxBoy

[XBoxBoy]

Totally irrelevant to the USA. Why here in the USA the government assures me that inflation is maybe 2% at most. And now that stimulus checks are going out, I’m sure I’ll be able to get a big fat raise real soon.

XBoxBoy

[XBoxBoy]

Totally irrelevant to the USA. Why here in the USA the government assures me that inflation is maybe 2% at most. And now that stimulus checks are going out, I’m sure I’ll be able to get a big fat raise real soon.

XBoxBoy

[XBoxBoy]

Totally irrelevant to the USA. Why here in the USA the government assures me that inflation is maybe 2% at most. And now that stimulus checks are going out, I’m sure I’ll be able to get a big fat raise real soon.

XBoxBoy

[NotCranky]

It’s just a goofy story. The bread maker will break before they recoup the cost for it and they make 62k but gas is thier largest expense yet they still ahve a lifestyle which affords tehm the lucxury of being a one car family? Makes no sense. Must have came out of the French equivalent of the Utne reader.

[NotCranky]

It’s just a goofy story. The bread maker will break before they recoup the cost for it and they make 62k but gas is thier largest expense yet they still ahve a lifestyle which affords tehm the lucxury of being a one car family? Makes no sense. Must have came out of the French equivalent of the Utne reader.

[NotCranky]

It’s just a goofy story. The bread maker will break before they recoup the cost for it and they make 62k but gas is thier largest expense yet they still ahve a lifestyle which affords tehm the lucxury of being a one car family? Makes no sense. Must have came out of the French equivalent of the Utne reader.

[NotCranky]

It’s just a goofy story. The bread maker will break before they recoup the cost for it and they make 62k but gas is thier largest expense yet they still ahve a lifestyle which affords tehm the lucxury of being a one car family? Makes no sense. Must have came out of the French equivalent of the Utne reader.

[NotCranky]

It’s just a goofy story. The bread maker will break before they recoup the cost for it and they make 62k but gas is thier largest expense yet they still ahve a lifestyle which affords tehm the lucxury of being a one car family? Makes no sense. Must have came out of the French equivalent of the Utne reader.

[Ex-SD]

What’s happening in France and the rest of the EU is what is going to happen in the USA is that there is going to be a growing, wider divide between the middle class and the upper middle class. The middle class family is running at least two cars and usually feeding two adults and one or two children. With the cost of gas and food rising higher and higher and wages stagnating because business’ has slowed in most sectors, it’s going to get pretty tight for a lot of families.

I really liked XBoxBoy’s response. He’s restored my faith in the government and figured out how we’re going to beat inflation.

[Ex-SD]

What’s happening in France and the rest of the EU is what is going to happen in the USA is that there is going to be a growing, wider divide between the middle class and the upper middle class. The middle class family is running at least two cars and usually feeding two adults and one or two children. With the cost of gas and food rising higher and higher and wages stagnating because business’ has slowed in most sectors, it’s going to get pretty tight for a lot of families.

I really liked XBoxBoy’s response. He’s restored my faith in the government and figured out how we’re going to beat inflation.

[Ex-SD]

What’s happening in France and the rest of the EU is what is going to happen in the USA is that there is going to be a growing, wider divide between the middle class and the upper middle class. The middle class family is running at least two cars and usually feeding two adults and one or two children. With the cost of gas and food rising higher and higher and wages stagnating because business’ has slowed in most sectors, it’s going to get pretty tight for a lot of families.

I really liked XBoxBoy’s response. He’s restored my faith in the government and figured out how we’re going to beat inflation.

[Ex-SD]

What’s happening in France and the rest of the EU is what is going to happen in the USA is that there is going to be a growing, wider divide between the middle class and the upper middle class. The middle class family is running at least two cars and usually feeding two adults and one or two children. With the cost of gas and food rising higher and higher and wages stagnating because business’ has slowed in most sectors, it’s going to get pretty tight for a lot of families.

I really liked XBoxBoy’s response. He’s restored my faith in the government and figured out how we’re going to beat inflation.

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