Originally Posted by seeric

Right. Maybe I should have been more clear. The point was, just when the middle class can't take any more beating, they kick them again when their down. Not sure where all of you live, but in California there are lots of folks barely making ends meet. This is going to really hammer them. It is an increase that the layman did not expect and from the looks of the social networks today, folks did not expect it to happen.

Just saying.