I'll grant that people making over $100,000 a year have a certain amount of discretionary income. But a family living on $50,000 or less is already close to the bone -- and cutting out that occasional pizza or movie night isn't going to save them more than a few hundred dollars a year.
Even before the recent economic dislocations there were articles like this one from 2005 --
http://www.rtoonline.com/content/Article/Jan05/DiscretionaryIncome011005.asp -- saying that "Average discretionary income for households with earnings of less than $50,000 is $2,075."
So just who is this belt-tightening metaphor aimed at, anyway?
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