Sshhh!
I know I’m jumping in, and that people have already said similar things, but I have to say this:
Until my dad lost his job last year, my parents made, before taxes, about 140K a year. I didn’t feel rich; I just knew that I was lucky that I didn’t have to worry very much about money, or whether I could afford to purchase something with my parent’s money. My parents, however, managed to spend every penny.
New SUVs. A boat. College (and, incidentally, even with that income, most college prices were not managable). Morgage. All this things bit into the overall price. The worst, though, is that my parents loved to SPEND, my dad especially. He still does; he buys nice stuff that we really don’t need.
It doesn’t seem rich. It really, really doesn’t. But then I see what other people can do with that money. People who’ve mastered the concepts of saving, of investing, of not necessarily having the newest computer or the latest cell phone or brand new clothing every two months. And after looking at that, seeing what my parents were doing–essentially, pissing it all away on the stupidest things–drove me mad.
It doesn’t seem rich, but it is. I don’t ever expect to make more than 40K in my chosen profession, but I could be happy on that.
I’d say that generally, “the rich” is rhetorical. It means those fatcats who do little work, and exploit you, the Common Man.
Politicians aren’t much for fairness and rationalism.
Oh that explains it precisely.:rolleyes: And who are those people exactly?
I think you read his comment incorrectly, msmith. At least, I detected sarcasm…