Socialism is all about shared misery.
Shared misery isn’t misery!
How about hopeless. Because all we see around us is idiocy.
A shift is coming, or a SHTF... :)
Not only will people slide down the economic ladder,
but the ladder will slide as well.
What it MEANS to be “middle class” will mean far less than it does today.
Rome didn't collapse overnight.
Detroit didn't fail the day after the 1967 riots.
History shows us that it usually takes time to destroy immense wealth.
But when you are on a downward trajectory there are only two options: continue to the bottom or change your ways.
There is not the slightest indication that our government will change its ways - in fact, they are doubling down on the same failed policies that changed success into decline in less than 50 years.
The Roman Empire lasted almost 1,500 years, the Ottoman Empire existed for more than 600 years. Our leaders are destroying the Republic after less than 240 years.
We now live in a country where the solution to every problem is more government and more government dependency. Bigger government is only possible through higher taxes. Higher taxes reduce our prosperity. To say we will be less prosperous is a tautology. There can be no other result.
Now I know the following statement doesn't apply to all poor folks. (I know - I grew up poor.) But it seems to me a lot of "poor folks" in this country take a lot of public assistance and help from charities, but can somehow still manage to have money for cell phones, tatoos, piercings, and so forth.
Oftentimes, they are "poor" because of their own foolish choices, or because they are just plain lazy.
Poor folks in this country don't really know what it means to be poor.
It's all because of socialism, the democrats and the gutless Rino’s.
I was just telling a friend, if you want to become wealthy today, become a politician.
We have sunk to the depths of the banana republic countries that we used to show disgust at. The countries where the politicians siphoned a large chunk of the money off for themselves.
The achievement of a free market in labor, which includes both freedom of competition of employers for workers,and freedom of money wage rates to fall when necessary, plus a 100% reserve gold standard, which would help both to prevent instability of the money supply and to reduce severity of boom bust cycles,would mean the elimination of one of modern life's greatest anxieties, the fear on loosing ones's job and not being able to find another, and thus on being deprived of the ability too support oneself and one's family.