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Makes you wonder if they families with the nice homes and all the toys are a paycheck away from doom
1 posted on 11/20/2023 9:46:51 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maybe so, but they sure are eating well. I can’t find a table at half the restaurants I go to these days.


2 posted on 11/20/2023 9:49:06 AM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well I live paycheck to paycheck too....probably because I always put a bit into savings and my 401k.

Does this make me a bad person?


3 posted on 11/20/2023 9:53:01 AM PST by funwithfood
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I'm one of them.

I've had five jobs over the past year. One of them was a substitute teaching job that lasted two days.

The reason I was fired? I subbed in a high school chemistry class studying reactions. And I told the kids that sodium combusts with water.

The principal said I was teaching them about high explosives.

True story.

4 posted on 11/20/2023 9:53:54 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain (America will need de-liberalization just as Germany had de-nazification.)
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We does all your hard-earned money go???? WASTED through taxes and the hidden taxes of inflation all caused by the $3+ trillion unconstitutional portion of the federal government which as I repeat so often is THE GREATEST THREAT to our lives, liberties and free pursuits.

NUKE THE $3+ TRILLION UNCONSTITUTIONAL PORTION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT or it will nuke us!!!!


6 posted on 11/20/2023 9:55:18 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Most people live paycheck to paycheck. Most people live very well paycheck to paycheck. People tend to spend what the earn.

Nothing wrong with that


7 posted on 11/20/2023 9:55:33 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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Report: Majority of U.S. Adults Living Paycheck to Paycheck

The Ant and the grasshopper, is a story told 2,600 years ago, by Aesop in ancient Greece.

9 posted on 11/20/2023 10:00:20 AM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yes. Many, if not most are.


11 posted on 11/20/2023 10:01:27 AM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pretty close!


13 posted on 11/20/2023 10:03:45 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

One of the steps into socialism. All according to plan.


14 posted on 11/20/2023 10:05:02 AM PST by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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Have not had a paycheck in a long time.Biden sucks shi*.
There’s a ‘t’ in there.


15 posted on 11/20/2023 10:05:23 AM PST by sasquatch
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But, but, but the media talking heads are always droning on and on about this being the greatest US economy ever.


17 posted on 11/20/2023 10:06:53 AM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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That is pretty amazing given that the US labor participation rate is 62.7%.


19 posted on 11/20/2023 10:08:36 AM PST by posterchild
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To: ChicagoConservative27

But don’t most people do this?


20 posted on 11/20/2023 10:08:45 AM PST by ealgeone
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...and they love it!

They are sacraficing in support of those experiencing injustice in this world.

They feel they are better than by being worse off.

How they vote confirms this.

I know. Makes no sense.


22 posted on 11/20/2023 10:11:04 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (Wake me up when somebody tells the truth.)
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Was there ever a time in living memory when this was not the case?
Because I see a story like this every few years, even in relatively good times.
23 posted on 11/20/2023 10:11:17 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Even more are using credit cards to fill the gap.


24 posted on 11/20/2023 10:14:47 AM PST by cableguymn
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Big unspoken element——
Paycheck means “working” for a living. Many people do not work and receive a paycheck.

Old statistic (must be much higher in 2023)

In 2019, 99.1 million people participated in one of the 10 programs discussed in this data point
representing 30 percent of the U.S. population.
 More than one in four working‐age adults (27 percent) and nearly one of every two children (49
percent) participated in a safety net program.
 Nearly one in eight adults (12 percent) and one in three children (33 percent) participated in
multiple safety net programs.
 Among beneficiaries, 47 percent of adults and two out of three children (67 percent) participated
in multiple programs.
Source: hhs.gov


One new:
Mar 16, 2023 — More than 42 million Americans receive a federal stipend for food through the program formerly known as food stamps.

TANF (temporary assistance for needy families)
SNAP
WIC (WIC serves 53 percent of all infants born in the United States. 2023.)

2021
In 2018, entitlement benefits (child support, EITC, Medicaid/CHIP, SNAP, and SSI) had participation rates above 50 percent, whereas the four non-entitlement programs (CCDF, housing assistance, LIHEAP, and TANF) had rates below 30 percent.


28 posted on 11/20/2023 10:22:39 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging.It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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in before the “people are lazy and spend too much on crap” and “if they would just be rich like me” and and might as well throw in “if they would just push away from the dinner table they would be skinny” crowd..


29 posted on 11/20/2023 10:23:45 AM PST by cherry
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A nation with incredible resources, constitutionally guaranteed freedom to do just about anything you please…and this is the result.


30 posted on 11/20/2023 10:30:17 AM PST by bigbob
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Honestly, our government is twice as large and twice as expensive as it needs to be. Cut taxes, let people keep more of their money.


31 posted on 11/20/2023 10:31:21 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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