[Mpls] RE: Another DT restaurant closes

[Tim Bonham]

>I'm sick of the middle-class, I think that we can all learn
>a lesson from the USSR and eliminate the upper and middle
>classes and all live in poverty together!  Equal incomes
>for all!  God bless Minneapolis.
>
>Michael Atherton
>Prospect Park
         Actually, Michael, your facts are a bit off here.

Dividing the US GNP ($11,750,000,000,000) evenly between the US 
population(283,000,000) gives an income of $41,519 per person, or 
over $297,000 for a family of four.

Hardly "poverty".  In fact, well into the middle-class range, I would say.

Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson

[* Figures are from the CIA factbook 
(www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/) for 2001; last year I could find.)]