Congratulations voters - you asked for this.
Once you go debt free you will see your standard of living rise. Go debt free.
America ran a greater than $300 billion deficit with China last year, a total which has been steadily increasing now for an entire generation.
Bring back AMERICAN jobs now.
Now.
Some members of my extended family have been living on credit cards. There wages have not kept up with inflation and two female family members lost jobs. Current part time job just doesn’t cut it.
Look for the American automakers to take a huge hit. They’ve been largely unsuccessful at either making prestige cars, and also trail at making desirable cheap cars.
The middle-class SUVs and pickups that make the profits for the Big Three are already unaffordable, but shaky loan practices have kept them in people’s driveways. Those days are coming to an end.
~ General MacArthur in his book "Reminiscences"
Can anyone tell me why gov’t inflation figures exclude food and energy? I’d say the very real increase in these two necessities are decimating the bottom sectors of the middle class.
What happens when middle class jobs are outsourced to overseas suppliers or insourced with lower cost “immigrants” is completely predictable.
Congratulations voters - you asked for this.
When it comes to consuming “stuff” women are the worst. Madison Ave knows that and for decades spent hundreds of millions on psychology studies to make their ads cause women to buy billions of stuff they do not really need but emotionally must have. 1950’s women had 13 sets of clothes for all occaisions. Even adjusting for workplace clothing women should not need more then 30 sets of clothes??!! No modern women would live to that limit. Any husband that points that out would be evisorated for being a cheap bastard one step from being divorced. Consumerism is killing this country and putting many into unnecessary debt and bankruptcy. Bringing back jobs is only half the solution, restoring good old fashion Yankee Frugality is the other.
Yay! Another ‘list’ article! They’re all too common these days. Almost reminds me of TV commercials, given how they are usually titled.
” ‘X’Number of ‘X’ That shows ‘X’ “
Typically associated with impending doom, disaster, or the number of ways everything sucks!
I’m part of the problem.
My wife died 13 years ago and my daughter moved out and married. I haven’t spent squat in a long time.