OK Matt now you've started it. How's this for a theory? Let's do away with the middle class citizens. We'll have the aristocracy and the peasants. The aristocracy doesn't need Social Security and to give it to the peasants would be mere "chump change" because their entitlements would be very small based on their earnings. Social Security problem fades away. Consider these items of note, Major labor unions have lost all their bargaining power and the unions who could create the biggest inconvenience, the airlines and railroad unions can't wildcat strike and have to wait at least thirty days to call a strike IF the Arbitrator says they can and that can be squashed by the president and they can be ordered back to work. And it seems the Arbitrators always rule in the Companies favor on important issues.All because of the terms of the Railway Labor Act. That Presidential recall happened to the United Airlines pilots a few years ago. I think the truck drivers union in France has more bargaining power than any U.S. labor union. Another item of note...college tuition keeps climbing 12%-15% a year. Soon only the rich will be able to afford to send their kids to college. No college degree and you're doomed to a "Blue Collar" career. Blue collar, Oh sorry, but we 've shipped your job overseas. By the way that Home Loan we gave you a few years ago when we slackened up on the qualifications and let a whole bunch of you qualify when your credit really didn't merit it? Well the ARM mortgages are peaking this year and the forclosure rate in really climbing because the cost of living has gone up but your wages haven't kept pace. Sorry, I guess you'll have to move into an apartment again. But that's fine because the more serfs we can contain in one place the easier it will be to keep you under control. Medical coverage? Oh sorry but you don't earn squat so you don't qualify for quality healthcare with all the expensive tests and life saving procedures like the rich folks do. So you think you can manage do you, well quess what.. the Insurance industry didn't make enough BILLIONS last year because of Hurricane Katrina so we have to jack up your homeowners and auto insurance rates to make up the difference for those poor tycoons. OK I'll quit this jabbering but don't you just wonder sometimes? Vietnam, Gulf War I II all the poor folk get to go while the riches like Clinton and Bush and Chaney got to stay home. Hmmm?? Yes sir, we can thin out the Middle and Lower Income population. Hmmmmm? ( No, I'm not a conspiracy nut or anything like that< I just connect some dots sometimes and wonder.) Well Good Night folks, my crib is calling me