While wages for the middle class have been somewhat stagnant for a while, I think your use of "exceedingly poor" is completely without merit. There are only 3

While wages for the middle class have been somewhat stagnant for a while, I think your use of "exceedingly poor" is completely without merit. There are only 3 countries in the world (Luxemburg, Switzerland, and Norway) with a higher median household disposable income than the U.S. (using PPP) [1]. Obviously this doesn't tell the whole situation since most of Europe provides more government services, but the U.S. also has a lower tax burden (which isn't fully taken into account in disposable income because of VAT). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_household_income http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_household_income