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Everything on a credit card or extracted from a weakening middle class.... So much to accomplish that costs and costs and costs and....

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Federal Budget Deficit Grew to $2 Trillion in FY 2023 Tax Foundation, 12 October 2023
U.S. Credit Rating Changed From ‘Stable’ To ‘Negative’ As National Debt Balloons Daily Wire, 11 November 2023
"Half of all American workers now make under $41,000 per year.
"That comes to $3,400 per month.
"Given the median rent is $1,978 and used car payment is $528, that leaves precisely $894 for everything else -- food, utilities, medical insurance and premiums, clothes, car repairs, sick kids, and that once a year dinner out at McDonald's."
Peter StOnge

“Given the median rent is $1,978 and used car payment is $528, that leaves precisely $894 for everything else — food, utilities, medical insurance and premiums, clothes, car repairs, sick kids, and that once a year dinner out at McDonald’s.”

You have to remember effectively all households are dual income when looking at those numbers. Of course costs go up, (two car payments, child care, ect.) but they don’t necessarily double.

That’s generally how everyone “gets by” now days.

In the past, one income was more than enough to achieve the same outcome. But when we doubled the size of the labor force, (women entering en masse), we cut the cost of labor in half.

So women have to work for others who don’t care about them like a husband does, so they can leave their children with someone else who doesn’t love them like their mother does, and we then see the inevitable destruction of the family, and our culture.

But hey, that’s just a small price to pay so the chicks get to be “strong independent bad ass girl bosses” now...right?

“ As the rockets climb toward the heavens, in fact, much of the media and political commentary has been startlingly negative. Oligarchs and their toys! What about world hunger? We need a wealth tax. What about climate change? We need a wealth tax. What about universal health care? Time for a wealth tax!”

“ Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.” Robert Heinlein