on a discretionary purchase, you are at risk.

Must be nice to be in that 1%. I make 50 dollars a week washing dishes. Are you super poor if you can't afford gas?

Where you work less than 7 hours a week, or do this just to keep your hands in dishwater.

The minimum wage, last I checked, was over $7 and more in some states. 7x7=49

You can either afford to buy gas (to make it to your marginal paying job) or eat. Been that route.

I figure 35% of the country is middle class (management, licensed professionals, master artisans, business owners); 65% is lower or "working class" (hourly employees, laborers, small farmers); and an insignificant number are upper class (owners of major corporations, trusts, large amounts of land, major public officials--professions is usually irrelevant to upper class status).

...you are probably super-rich....

And you probably can't empathize with people making less than thirty thousand bucks a year.....

There are rich selfish power brokers primarily captains of industry or the financial world who dictate policy and build fortunes on the misfortunes and hard work of others, and then there are the rest of us.

It's not about income, it's about wealth

When I see people quibble over some imaginary line, it drives me nuts. There's no line. It's an arbitrary number that is catchy so OWS uses it. The real line might be 99.23/0.77. Who knows?

If you make 236k you're a good guy, if you make 238k, you're an asshole? These are not 1% ers. These are upper middle class people who are well off (depending on where they live).

It's really not even an income thing. It's a wealth thing. The Greenwich CT family with a 4 million dollar home and millions stashed away in accounts: the parents and the kids and their kids' kids are "1%ers". Their teenager at Exeter is a one percenter making no income. Their doctor taking care of the kid's lacrosse injury may make 240k but is no 1%er in the real sense of the concept.

sheesh