The attendant had the white-haired boy right where he could reach him--in a low-income bracket.

My hope is that people in low-income brackets and who have life styles seen as less than glamorous will recognize that there's dignity in their lives.

And it saw right through the claim that surrogacy is a solution to the problem of female infertility: "We doubt that infertile couples in the low-income bracket will find upper-income surrogates."

"If you don't have health insurance, if you are in a low-income bracket and if there is an illness, you will try any way you can to take care of yourself," he said.

Simultaneously, we need to work out dependable social guarantees for the entire population, especially for those in the low-income bracket, and various social security measures, including special subsidies to make up for rising prices.