Reply #93: I really wish the media would stop doing this

[bluestateguy]

These hand-wringing exposes about how the upper middle class, or the upper class have been "riding out" these tough times. The New York Times--also a Yuppie paper if there ever was one--has done this before on more than one occasion.

Look, I'm sure some (though certainly not all) people in the above story's income bracket have had to cut back on their expenses and their lifestyles. But big whoop. Plenty of kids get by just fine without ballet lessons, tennis lessons And I can't say I really approve of having a nanny do a parents' busy work either.

There are people in this country who are fighting everyday just to survive--not to maintain their lavish lifestyles--but to survive. To eat, to have a roof over their heads, to even just be able to go to the doctor. That's who we need to be hearing about in the papers, not the trials and tribulations of some Stepford Wife.