"Gary Coffman" wrote in message
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On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 20:14:25 GMT, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:
The US economy since WWII has been built on an
underworked, overpaid middle class. May they rise again.

The reason for that was that at the end of WWII the US was the only
major industrialized nation left with an intact infrastructure. The rest
of
the world was either smashed flat, or was made up of remnants of a
colonial infrastructure which held them to peasant level. So the US
could allocate resources profligately without enduring any negative
consequences.

I'm real curious about why you think that should have led to such a big
social and economic change in the US. What's your rationale? With numbers,
please. No fuzzball theories. g

Ed Huntress