http://articles.moneycent...essInTheMiddleClass.aspx

There are many ways to define "middle class" Lybs - try reading this article. Middle class depends on far more than just income. People's expectation of what "middle class" is have risen. Our poor in this country would be conisdered middle class in many parts of the world, based on welfare and posessions.

Of course, thinking that if you make less than 60K the "American Dream" is out of your reach is just the sort of defeatist attitude that spawns socialism. Don't let the fact that millions of people are doing it every day without a government check get in the way of victimhood.