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Non Compos Mentis
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Off the grid- Almost
Posts: 10,653
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Most Americans spend whatever they earn. While maybe the statistics show a house payment and two cars in the driveway for both 1983 and today, the average size of a house has grown substantially.
The average house built in the 1950's was 1100 square feet. Today it's over 2200.
Why does it take two incomes just to "get by" these days? Because we are far more affluent than ever before.
Almost all people in America below the poverty line have color TV. Most own cars.
People who think actual buying power has stagnated do not realize how much the "normal" or "average" lifestyle has changed.
Last edited by Dantilla; 05-03-2007 at 06:42 AM..
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