Half (43%) of Americans Are Effectively Poor Now. What The?

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Published: Jun 20, 2019
Author: staff
Post Date: 2019-06-20 18:27:19 by Horse
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There are days I feel like I read dystopian statistics for a living. And then there are day when the dystopian statistics take even my jaded breath away. Here’s one: 43% of American households can’t afford a budget that includes housing, food, childcare, healthcare, transportation, and a cellphone. Translation: nearly half of Americans can’t afford the basics of life anymore.

Does that take your breath away too? It should. And yet it might not come as a surprise. You might know it intimately. The statistics say there’s an even chance you’re…living it. What a grim and bizarre reality. Half of people are effectively poor in the world’s richest country. What the?

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How many people could afford to travel 1,000 miles to see family? How long would it take to save up a thousand dollars to make such a trip?

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#1: TommyTheMadArtist    To: Horse (#0)

Welcome to the new slavery. Abolish slavery for blacks and make everyone a slave just to prove how benevolent our society is. After all, taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

TommyTheMadArtist posted on 2019-06-20 18:28:45   Reply   Private Reply

#2: DWornock    To: Horse (#0)

43% of American households can’t afford a budget that includes housing, food, childcare, healthcare, transportation, and a cellphone.

Even if that was true, they receive government transfer payments so that 95% of the people are doing good enough.

DWornock posted on 2019-06-20 19:51:42   Reply   Private Reply

#3: Lod    To: Horse (#0)

interesting site and article, thank you

America is effectively a poor country now. Not a poor country like poor countries, but a poor country of its own kind. A poor rich country, a rich country where the average person lives like a poor person. That single fact is at the heart of American collapse, my friends. And it’s not OK.

So what's the prescription for the cure?

Lod posted on 2019-06-20 20:42:33   Reply   Private Reply

#4: Lod    To: All (#3)

US suicide rate up 33% since 1999

www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/he...tes-nchs-study/index.html

Lod posted on 2019-06-20 20:52:16   Reply   Private Reply

#5: Horse    To: TommyTheMadArtist, Lod (#1)

So what's the prescription for the cure?

We are over populated so we will lower the population level through repatriation of foreign nationals and through Civil War. We have been given a Federal Reserve Bank that charges interest on money created out of nothing. Repeal that. We have been robbed of tens of trillions by the Bankers. Arrest them and use their assets to fund Debt Cancellation. All this is possible if we win the Civil War.

Horse posted on 2019-06-20 21:49:03   Reply   Private Reply

#6: Tatarewicz    To: Horse (#0)

Socialist school curriculum instead of teaching folks to be resourceful as were pioneers with only grade school if that, current philosophy is to wait for someone else to meet your needs.

Tatarewicz posted on 2019-06-21 01:46:22   Reply   Private Reply