First, I'm on the low end of the economic food chain.

And it may be amusing to poke fun at people who are better off than some of us. OTOH, some of the people here aren't exactly living in The Projects. (If that term is still in use)

There are people from all income brackets that are nothing but a PITA. It's due to mindset and training, not income level.

With Katrina, we saw people in new $30,000 SUVs complaining about the lack of handouts. We heard of poor people who wouldn't leave their 26 dogs behind. (Why does a poor person need 26 dogs?)

Stupidity, greed, the it-won't-happen-to-me mindset, the ones who refuse to prepare come from all income brackets from one extreme to the other.

If a wealthier person can afford to buy and run a nice China Diesel generator, and store fuel for it, would you refuse their offer of refrigeration/power if a family member were diabetic or on an oxygen machine?

So.... are you saying that the well-off shouldn't prepare?

And aren't we being just a bit supercilious?


Sue

I'm working for that company and have not seen anything like that in the store. It would be a miracle if they carried that stuff in all the stores including mine, its a start.
Always by on clearence the stuff is sold at full retail.

Lee

I'm not saying that the well off shouldn't prepare...I'm just saying they shouldn't do it with designer gear that is most likely inferior quality because it's trendy and hip and the latest fashionable thing.

But I haven't gone to check it out for myself yet...maybe it's decent stuff...if so, let the well off go for it. If Dillard's was stocking some of the name brands so familiar to this forum, I'd be all for it. However I'm reserving my judgement until I check it out.

Looks cool. I'm liking the looks of this stuff.

Craig

http://www.dillards.com/endeca/EndecaStartServlet?N=1590902 is what you are talking about right? They have a few items here, but nothing that (like Charleton Heston in True Lies) "blows up my skirt". Might be decent quality in person, but seems overpriced.

I think the comments on lawyers and doctors and otherwise well-off folk not being good community helpers was obviously intended as a joke, but dang... even I didn't find it that funny. Maybe if you had just kept it to lawyers.... <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

But I'd say this, if Dillards had a decent set of kit for a good price, why would I care who else shopped there or if they turned their noses up to my Columbia canvas pants loaded down with my EDC? My money spends the same as anyone else.

P.S. Susan, some folks with 30,000 SUVs can barely afford them. They are seriously in debt in a lot of cases. Around here we call it "car poor". You know, the guys with a rundown shack of a house with a $40k Tahoe parked in front. On lease. Always late on the payment. Can't keep it in fuel... I often see the same folks buying cigarettes and beer at the checkout while their kid looks like he's half starving.