Are the Better Off poorer today?

[Auld Decency]

From what I've been listening to on the radio the middle classes (and in fact anyone earning more than about 30,000 a year) are being squeezed from all directions, with increased taxes on everything they need: house, car(s), food, wine, etc. Their businesses are threatened, their houses are in negative equity and their savings are diminishing. Yet what would we do without them?

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world" (Yeats)

[Red Biddy]

you see the word 'class' when used with regard to humans annoys me. Who decreed class? Because you earn a certain wage or live in a certain area does not put you into a nice little box to tick.

Cowan, Bertie, Haughy, Dev, Kenny, O'Reilly etc etc - are they better than me - NO

So drop the 'class' bit and concentrate on earnings

Those doing a job deserving of a good wage - good but I do not include everyone covered by the Agreement made in Crocher nor ministers who under perform, nor the doctor who could not be bothered to attend a patient in need as being a better class than me

I hate the word class!