Of course they are. We went from a country where you could support your entire family, in middle class lifestyle on pretty much a single income. That would get

Of course they are. We went from a country where you could support your entire family, in middle class lifestyle on pretty much a single income. That would get you 2 cars, a house and a retirement. And this wasn't from some high end job, middle class was pretty much achieved by 3/4s of the country. Now surviving on a single income is next to impossible, unless both parents work.(I'm not counting the 80-100K/yr single earners)