<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><B>From:</B> mike larkin<BR><A href="http://gallup.com/content/?ci=11611">http://gallup.com/content/?ci=11611</A></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>!"In sharp contrast, only 20% of consumers with annual incomes of less than $30,000 rate current economic conditions as excellent or good, while 37% rate them as poor -- a difference of -17 percentage points"!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>well what a surprise, I would have thought anybody with an income less than thirty thousand would be on the streets or suicidal, the twenty percent optimists are most probably the homeless you see shouting at their imaginary friend.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gary?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>ride si sapis</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>