Yeah, Brucie, that's kinda like what I'm askin' myself... Dickey is a stats kinda guy but he tends to leave out the *portant* parts... Gotta wahtch the boy...

BVw, Dickey... Before you go and twist what I siad in my last popst into meaning that pverty is just fine if you have a good "qwuality of life", please don't waste out time...

There's a big diffrentce between someone like me (middle class) who can take a survive a hit to my income... Am I being squeezed??? Well, heck ya, I am...

People living in poverty don't have the resources to sit dowen and rationally do what my wife and I do by asking what we can cut out of our budget... They are absolutely slammed... It's just a matter of becoming poorer... Unfortunately, what it tarnslates to is 1 in 5 kids who go to bed hungry at night in a country of tremendous wealth...

That should be criminal...

BObert