Originally Posted by Robbie

You are wrong on that. Hell, you even used India as an example.

So there is your first country to prove that wrong.

In the United States we have the majority of people living very comfortably in the "middle" of your two extremes.

You need to test your "no other country in this world" theory. Go down to Mexico. Go to Jamaica. Go to Peru. I've spent a bit of time at those three countries. And they totally prove your statement wrong.

I've never been to Asia...but from what I have seen and read, the nations there also prove that there are LOTS of countries with no middle class at all.

I think your statement is way over-exaggerating things and totally ignoring the FACT that a person in the U.S.A. who lives at "poverty level" would be considered "rich" in many nations.

In most places in the world a person in "poverty" doesn't own a car, a cellphone, and have cable t.v. in their apartment.