Sorry, waiting on gas & water to get cut off I get it thank God I own my home but sitting in with no utilities is like camping. I feel for you Lisa & I'm sure you are not alone & next month & the month after there will me more & more that can't pay theirs either, the economy is about to implode. 🫂
Always has been; it’s the disassembling of our bedrock principles, the depravity and inhumanity being shoved down our throats under the guise of “National Security “ and the all out attacks on our entire judicial system that has shaken us to our core! 🧌 and they ain’t done yet!
They figured out if they outsource our jobs to China, Mexico (yes many car parts are made in Mexico, much of our produce) they could keep our pay low & still give us cheap crap, I used to buy American made products that would last, I've bought 3 can openers in the last year that broke from China.
This whole thing about balancing the national budget is crazy to me. Trump spend $20M to see the Superbowl. And $5M to see the racetrack. But god forbid we ask for the ability to have enough food and medicine to, ya know, not die.
I'm with you, I don't even know what one looks like anymore, only good think I've gotten pretty good in the kitchen, can make Tex Mex as well as taco bell for what's that's worth, & beef, a steak holy crap like 8 $ a lb. Eating so much chicken my friends call me yard bird.
Exactly. The people who already have everything keep trying to tell the people who made their lifestyles possible by inventing/creating/working that they should learn to live on less. Meanwhile, they keep stealing the credit/the money/ and the power.
Movies, what the hell is that. I'm watching TV shows & Movies I've saved over the years looks like saving all those is going to come in handy, turned off Netflix & Hulu, Prime is off, only have like 6 local channels full of GOP commercials. What 30$ for 2 people to go to the movies now, & dinner?
I love the cinema but the extremely high prices for snacks and nothing really in theaters that suits my taste since like Oppenheimer, Killers Flower Moon or Napoleon (that was a banger year). I have 0 will to even think about it. Is a shame cos the theaters by me will have $5 matinees regularly.
I am on disability. I know folks who work in restaurants and delivery services, so I try to order occasionally to contribute to their ability to make a living. It's not much, but it's something.
I kinda "get it". Then I hear this from my 21 y.o niece who says this while sporting a new mani/pedi, $80 sneakers (1/3 pairs), drives a car newer than my 2012 model, still eats at restaurants and announced her pregnancy. I see this everywhere I look and find it hard to reconcile.
I mean younger people with disposable incomes and no responsibility and no debt spend more on luxury good. This is part of growing up. If my income didn’t go to paying down everything it’s cost me to come as far as I have, I’d be making pretty terrible decisions with that extra $
The other thing....if social security survives...,what you will get in retirement is based off what you made working. Lower wages means a lower retirement income.
You must be new to the workforce or blind. No one has been paid their worth for over 40 years. Trickle-down economics killed the middle class. When the employers didn't play ball & pocketed more profits, they didn't want to share with their employees anymore. Thus, the rise of the billionaires. ☮️
Taxes are not for government services any longer, just going straight to the billionaire class.
Trillions in lost revenue for the US treasury, which means more services cut..
THEY ARE DISMANTLING THE PART OF GOVERNMENT THAT BENEFITS THE PEOPLE.
Yes, the Jack in a Box, Churches & Wendys closed here in my small town, next some pizza places, Burger King & several others & Mom & Pop stores. Low earning Box stores like Walmarts will close, unemployed not paying rent, empty houses / apartments. no property taxes coming in. Disaster
HEY THIS WEEK MY GROCERY BILL HIT AN ALL TIME HIGH AT MARKET BASKET?????WHATS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE????👎👎👎🥲🥲🤣🤣🤣🤣😠😠😠😠👎👎👎👎👎👎HEY NUT JOB WHERE ARE THE LOWER PRICES???????
Just got my raise (3%) and bonus, which isn’t enough to cover current cost of living increases (food, utilities, gas) and the bonus will not be enough to pay off $1500 in credit card debt. Glad I have a job + healthcare. But geez…..
I was grocery shopping with my kid one day and she picked up a nice big ripe avocado, looked at it, then put it back on the shelf and said, “According to a lot of people, if I just do that another 250,000 times I can afford a down payment on a starter home” 🤔
I hear you Steve same, I cook everything at home & trying to eat healthy on a budget is very very hard. Cheap food is not healthy, when you have health issues like High Blood pressure eating out of boxes has too much sodium. Hang in there.
My wife and I haven’t been able to go out much at all in the past 5 years. First covid then just no money. For two plates at our favorite Greek/breakfast place it’s like 40 bucks with tip. Unfortunately we just can’t justify that :/
But the mining companies do, and the toxic salmon companies. @albomp.bsky.social and @australiainstitute.org.au don't govern for us, though @jimchalmers.bsky.social is at least trying
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But more money will go to tax cuts for billionaires so there's that.
I agree.
I don’t live in your country.
I’m old enough to remember when we earned enough for everything we needed.
Trillions in lost revenue for the US treasury, which means more services cut..
THEY ARE DISMANTLING THE PART OF GOVERNMENT THAT BENEFITS THE PEOPLE.