How in the world does the average American family survive in this economy? The median household income is a little bit less than $50,000 a year right now. So let's call that about $4000 a month. But before any of that money gets spent, you have to take out at least $1000 in taxes. That leaves about $3000 a month to pay all the bills with. With that $3000 you have to pay the mortgage (or rent), make the car payments, make the student loan payments, pay for power and water, pay for health insurance, pay for home insurance, pay for car insurance, pay the phone bill, pay the Internet bill and pay the cable bill. On top of all that, every member of the family needs three meals a day and the cars need to be filled up with gasoline or they won't go anywhere. Of course I haven't even mentioned expenses that don't happen every month such as car repairs or new shoes. No wonder so many families are feeling so financially stressed!
The truth is that American families are getting squeezed harder than they have been in ages. The number of good jobs is declining, incomes are going down, and the cost of living just keeps going up.
The following are 17 facts that prove that the average American family is getting absolutely pulverized by this economy....
#1 The cost of a health insurance policy for the average American family rose by a whopping 9 percent last year. According to a report put out by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust, the average family health insurance policy now costs over $15,000 a year.
How in the world can most families afford that? Yes, in many cases employers are paying for at least a portion of that, but still that seems absolutely outrageous.
#2 Due to rising costs, a lot of employers are completely getting rid of health plans for their employees. In fact, the percentage of Americans covered by employer-based health plans has fallen for 11 years in a row.
#3 The number of uninsured Americans continues to rise. Things have gotten so bad that an all-time record 49.9 million Americans do not have any health insurance at all.
#4 At this point, most American families are tapped out financially. According to the U.S. Labor Department, incomes and spending were both down for the second straight year in 2010.
#5 At the same time, the employment picture continues to look worse with each passing month. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of layoffs in the United States was up 14 percent in August.
#6 Even if you do have a job that doesn't mean that you are doing much more than surviving. According to Paul Osterman, a professor of economics at MIT, approximately 20 percent of all employed Americans are making $10.65 an hour or less.
#7 The amount of debt that the average American family has piled up is absolutely staggering. The median yearly wage in the United States is just $26,261, but the average American household is carrying $75,600 in debt.
#8 Consumer confidence is extremely low right now. If the U.S. economy was in good shape, the Consumer Confidence Index would be up around 90. Instead, it is sitting at 45.4.
#9 Nearly every recent survey shows that the American people are feeling really depressed about the economy right now. In fact, one poll found that 80 percent of them believe that we are actually in a recession right now.
#10 Many consumers are seriously starting to cut back on spending again, and that is not a good sign for the U.S. economy. According to one recent study, 40 percent of all Americans have cut back on their spending within the last 60 days.
#11 It certainly does not help that millions of good jobs have been shipped out of the country. Sadly, the trend of offshoring our jobs is going to continue to accelerate if something is not done. According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 million more U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades.
#12 There is a lot of fear in the workforce right now. According to Gallup, 30 percent of all employed Americans are worried that they will be laid off soon.
#13 Today, there are 5.9 million Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 that are living with their parents. That is putting an even greater strain on the budgets of many families.
#14 American families have gotten very accustomed to using plastic to pay for things. Today, the average U.S. household has 13 different credit cards.
#15 Many American families are not making it at all in this economy. Last year, 2.6 million more Americans dropped into poverty. That was the largest increase that we have seen since the U.S. government began keeping statistics on this back in 1959.
#16 For many American families, living on food stamps has become a way of life. Today, there are more than 45 million Americans on food stamps and we keep setting a brand new record almost every single month.
#17 Things have gotten so bad that many American families are selling off whatever they can in order to survive. For example, down in Florida hundreds of people have been selling off their burial plots in an attempt to raise cash. The following is an excerpt from a local news report about this new trend....
Sellers are posting online, using burial plot brokers, and also funeral homes to market the real estate. Some of those advertisements show single plots starting at about $1,000, while family plots can go for up to $50,000.
Most American families are living in a state of almost constant financial stress. Way too many parents are spending way too many sleepless nights wondering how in the world they will be able to keep their heads above water for another month.
Very few families seem to have "extra money" for stuff these days. Yeah, there are the "privileged few", but most people are really struggling to get by.
In America today, if you are able to keep your home from being foreclosed and you are able to put food on the table and clothes on the backs of your family then you are doing pretty good.
Sadly, as our current economic crisis deepens, the average American family is going to have an even more difficult time trying to survive financially.
So do you have any tips to share for how the average American family can survive in this very tough economy? Please feel free to share your ideas and thoughts below....
Spread THe Wealth, Make Sure You Vote For King
Obama,Let The Government Force You To Buy There Health Insurance, Let Them Continue To Tax The Hell Out Of You, New Cadillacs For Everybody,
Houses For People That Cannot Afford Them, Good Times For Everybody At The Taxpayers Expense, I
Wonder How Many People Who Are Currently On Skid Row Voted For King Obama And His Merry Band Of Politicans. Because By Doing So They Are Just As Much Responsible As The Rest Who Voted For Them, So In All Reality They Have No Reason To Complain, Quit Being Gulliable And Wake The @@@@@ Up.
alreadygone, get a grip. Taxes are lower under Obama and our debt problem started with Reagan, bank credit with Greenspan, trade w/China and expanded fiat with Nixon. We don’t have enough fingers to point with and Obama or the next president will be the lucky one to see our corrupt corporatism implode. We need to look at the whole system, it is foolish to believe it the fault of one person or party.
Taxes are not lower,he gives 2 bit credits and then slams everyone with massive taxes and fees. The biggest tax of all is Obamacare. The mandate. Forcing employers to pay 25,000 an employee. There are a hundred little taxes he has passed, tobacco taxes, medical device taxes, tanning beds, death taxes, and the list goes on and on. Not to mention, regulation expenses past on to all of us. Then Obama creates the mother of taxes with inflation at a realistic rate of 8%. Been to the grocery store lately? Have you noticed the tax brackets are not being indexed for inflation? We are being taxed and screwed sideways by Obama and company.
Jamcanig, there is more than one way to tax. Quantative Easing is Obama’s taxation on everybody, including the poor. Printing hundreds of billions of excess dollars waters down the value of a buck. Everyone’s saved dollars are worth less and every dollar being spent is worth less, as well as every dollar earned, thanks to Quantative Easing.
[Central] Bankers Destroy Global Economy by Design to Consolidate Power
http://www.truthistreason.net/bankers-destroy-global-economy-by-design-to-consolidate-power
I’m so glad i’m a libertarian now.
Ah, Yes. Libertarian.
With 25 million illegal aliens in the country, the Libertarians feel we should open the borders and let everybody else in to sign up for welfare and force Americans out of their jobs.
Yeah, real brilliant.
Yes, we have a real mess on our hands and most people are in the dark. Many of us are starting to wake up and organize now. We need a new vision for real change.
I’m not afraid anymore!
The Revolution has started -
Read “Common Sense 3.1” at ( http://www.revolution2.osixs.org )
FIGHT THE CAUSE – NOT THE SYMPTOM
Wow, I still cant get over people thinking that gold and silver will save you in an economic collapse situation. Stock up on food, weapons, gas,and have a skill that you can barter with. Jeez, you gold and silver guys. Im not trying to piss you off but YOU CANT EAT GOLD!!!!
You can’t eat dollars or euros or yen either. Difference is they can’t print gold. Our bet is that gold will be the primary currency that can buy groceries, guns, gas etc. You won’t be able to transact much business if you have to carry around 10 gallon containers of gas.
I don’t understand why a lot of people bitch about being forced to pay into the Obama health Plan. We are forced to pay into Social Security with diminishing returns, and nobody is bitching about that. We pay into the welfare system and we bitch about that, but it comes time when you need it, you won’t bitch so much. Keep in mind that the other countries who have universal health care pay a high tax for their so called, “free health care”. The only benefit from that is that nobody is denied health care when they need it. Now, think about this. Whenever someone goes to the hospital for emergency care or medical care, and doesn’t have any insurance or money to pay their bills. Who do you think has to foot the bill? You and I. So, we are actually still paying for someone else s health care with the increase in the overall bills that people who pay their own bills. Either way, we still pay into a universal health care of sort. If we really wanted to provide funding for the Health Care Bill, we could eliminate Medicare and Medicaid and divert those funds into the Health Care Plan since the elderly and poor would be covered under the Health Care Bill anyways. It would be a case of paying twice for the same thing.
The discontent is global. People feel that their leaders have abandon them. People are struggling to survive. People are desperate, and are heading to the streets to protest. The institution of democracy is threatened by the crisis as politicians struggle to stay in power and seek ways to keep themselves in power.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/world/as-scorn-for-vote-grows-protests-surge-around-globe.html?_r=1
Folks this just gets uglier and uglier as time goes on. It looked like things were getting better a while ago when the stimulus money kicked in, but now that it’s dried up we’re back to reality and a depressed economy. What did we get for this stimulus/bailout expenditure? These are scary times. Protect yourself.
We need to create wealth not create money.
just doesn’t look good. i have no idea how the world will look in another 20 years from now.
I have just read a brilliant book “Reinventing Collapse” by Dmitry Orlov.
It is hard hitting, very witty and has some tips too…
“There is also a pathological fiction known as ‘The American Dream’… Masquerading as hope, it gains its effectiveness from a perversion of pride, a psychological trick people choose to play on themselves to obscure their powerlessness.”
Yeah man Dimitry is great! I tried to use some of his ideas in class back in 2008 and people made fun of me. I bet all of those unemployed retards from graduating class 2010 are feeling the pain of this depression. Being that I am a Russian immigrant myself Orlov’s book makes sense to me. JFK, Bill Gates, George Patton, Dwight Eisenhower, Abe Lincoln and FDR are no longer my heroes Meyer Lansky, Al Capone, Bugsy Siegel, Pablo Emilio Escobar are now my new idols. Having grown up and lived poor all of my life I am quite accustomed to having nothing. Dimitry said in a a lecture for the long now foundation “being rich is easy meanwhile being poor takes practice”. I guess I am ahead of the curve so do speak.
A MUST WATCH VIDEO:
Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation- featuring David Icke, Jordan Maxwell, Max Igan, Freeman…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqrdHLzvIV4&feature=player_embedded#!
i love how “gary2″ always comes on here with a “tax the rich” comment and then runs away directly as soon as someone inputs an ounce of logic into his stupidity. obviously Jesus did not say tax the rich, he said give to the poor out of your own heart. it is the church’s job to give, not the government. anyone who can use Google can look up soviet union and see that taxing the rich doesnt work, plain and simple. it really is not very complicated to understand.
Wow! So many fantasies in one article. The first thing we have to start doing is face reality:
Yes, I was “homeless” several years ago. It any nothing when you’re young. It’s a complete other thing to be evicted because of mandated “health” insurance requirements with your are forced to do by the police state when your old. Today’s world is nothing like it was 30-40 years ago. Get into this century, please.
1) Median household income is different from average income. One person got that little propaganda.
2) I do support taxing the rich. Not because I would “get something” from doing this. It would lessen the inequality – but only if the “welfare” programs were done with the result of improving the individual recipient circumstances. But no, in this fascist society we only steal from the poor (the elderly and the disabled) and give to JPM and/or the medical cartel. Now we are all living without any safety net and give all the true welfare to corporations.
3) If you have actual “talked to the poor”, you would very soon realize that the vast amount of people are poor because of our delusions – like “health” insurance. To stop these delusions we have to repeal the FDA preemption, which prevents ALL harm done by the medical industry (including your local pusher).
4) I’m poor – where is my free phone? Nonsense.
5) Housing for the poor? Ha! Ha! Ha!
6) Sell your house to rent? Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!!!!!
7) Gut government? We don’t have government anymore – WE HAVE FASCISM. The only regulations that we have now, is to police the disabled and the elderly.
9) The “place of refuge” pays your taxes? The land is free? Give me a break.
10) Internet selling? Come on, I think we’ve gone through this fraud endlessly.
11) Buy PMs when your starving? When are we going to get through to these internet sellers?
12) Kyle, you were paying way to much for “health” insurance when it was “free”. There is no such thing. Wake up, please. There’s only a short time to say NO! to fraud.
In summary, the only thing that we can do is to not be compliant with requests which we are trained to do. Break the mind control and we are all free.
Kyle:
I’m Canadian and I love our healthcare system. It is true that it can take a long while to get certain tests done, such as a colonoscopy but the reason is only cause it’s not urgent. All urgent tests can get done on time.
Example: I was with my Dad in 2006 when he suffered a massive stroke. I called 911 and he was transported on time to the hospital. There he had an immediate brain scan, then put on blood thinners. After 10 days, he was sent to Rehab center for 3.5 months. He was able to get back some mobility. Just the medication per month was 900$ CDN, but he only paid 50$ out of pocket. Then, he got to see the best neurologist in Quebec.
I’m not sure what it is Americans are afraid of. It is not free of course, everyone who works contributes to the system. It is not perfect.
My dad did not have to go bankrupt.
SandraT
SandraT: I have a friend/business associate in Paris who has had some major health problems and needed at least a dozen different operations. In fact, I was with him the day he was discharged from the major hospital right around the corner from Notre Damme Cathedral. He told me that he received “first-rate” health care under France’s public/private system (which is different from the NHS in the UK) and hasn’t had to worry about going bankrupt. Under the wretched health insurance system we have here in The Banana Republic of America (formerly the USA), he would have long since been financially destroyed. The health insurance system in the BRA is an abomination.
The US could afford a health care system like that but we police the world instead and those cops in military uniforms cost a bundle. Indirectly the US subsidized other nations health care. Maybe it was for control but if it wasn’t the US doing it then someone else would. The US is far from perfect but it’s damn sure preferable to the old USSR, Germany, Japan or the UK for that matter that had or was trying to achieve that position either globally or regionally.
Kyle:
I wanted to add, it did not cost my dad one penny for all his care, not even the ambulance or the rehab or the medication while he was there.
SandraT
These comments positively astound me.
So you really think that by leaving the rich alone, you are all going to be rich too, eh? Is that right.
Bad news, Sunshine. Leave the rich alone and a lot of Chinese are going to be rich. It’s that simple. I would think that would have become painfully obvious by now.
I can’t comment on taxing them. I can say if we keep shipping jobs to the lowest bidding human rights violator, we’ll have a globe that settles into a pattern of competing human rights violations. This means you.
I can see we’re going to get yet another Republican in ’12, based on these comments. As if the last one that started three unnecessary wars and completely destroyed our financial surpluses and our economy wasn’t enough to get it through people’s thick skulls.
How quickly you forget just how incredibly, amazingly bad that was. It was a level of bad unprecedented in US politics.
And based on these comments, “if we just get the government off our backs, the invisible hand will make all of us rich beyond the dreams of avarice” comments, I can see where this is going.
The invisible hand has been b***h slapping you for 10 years and you want 4 more.
To be sure, Obama is handling this in a horrendously incompetent manner, particularly with the “more offshoring” mantra of late. But another Republican? Really? These are the guys primarily responsible for our credit rating downgrade, let’s recall.
I’ll try Ron Paul. Heck if I know if it’s a good idea. It probably isn’t (if it sounds too good to be true it almost certainly is). But frankly I don’t know what else to do. I will never vote Republican again, ever.
Republicans are the scum of the earth. They are pathetic and immoral in their cutting taxes for the rich and paying for it by cutting programs like WIC etc. What PIGS.
Do we throw 700,000 women and children off of WIC—which provides nutritious foods to low-income pregnant women, new moms, babies and at-risk children under 5—to pay for less than one week of tax cuts for millionaires?
Yes people this is the conservative republican party. What immoral scum! They chose to give tax cuts to the rich and kick 700,000 women/children off WIC. And they call themselves the party of family values. They make me want to puke through my nose they are so depraved.
This is the funnies Troll rant I have ever heard!!! Thanks for the laugh dude!!! You truly are King of the Internet Trolls.
Anyone that appreciates the dire consequences of our current economic situation must listen to this song by “Rage Against the Machine.” It is absolutely worth your time. Here are the lyrics to the Song “Ghost of Tom Joad” underneath. Please go to youtube and listen to the song it will send shivers down your spine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Man walks along the railroad tracks
He’s goin’ someplace, and there’s no turnin’ back
The highway patrol chopper comin’ up over the ridge
Man sleeps by a campfire under the bridge
The shelter line stretchin’ around the corner
Welcome to the New World Order
Families sleepin’ in their cars out in the Southwest
No job, no home, no peace, no rest
No rest!
The highway is alive tonight
Nobody’s foolin’ nobody as to where it goes
I’m sitting down here in the campfire light
Searchin’ for the ghost of Tom Joad
He pulls his prayer book out of his sleepin’ bag
The Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
He’s waitin’ for the time when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
In a cardboard box ‘neath the underpass
With a one way ticket to the promised land
With a hole in your belly and a gun in your hand
Searching for a pillow of solid rock
Bathin’ in the city’s aquaduct
The highway is alive tonight
Nobody’s foolin’ nobody as to where it goes
I’m sittin’ down here in the campfire light
With the Ghost of old Tom Joad
Now Tom said, “Ma, wherever you seen a cop beatin’ a guy
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
Wherever there’s a fight against the blood and hatred in the air
Look for me Ma, I’ll be there
Wherever somebody’s strugglin’ for a place to stand
For a decent job or a helpin’ hand
Wherever somebody’s strugglin’ to be free
Look in their eyes, Ma, you’ll see me”
You’ll see me (x8)
The highway is alive tonight
Nobody’s foolin’ nobody as to where it goes
I’m sittin’ down here in the campfire light
With the ghost of Tom Joad
Grea comments, everyone. Here’s my story: In 2009, I opened a used book shop in Simi Valley, California. My best month so far was January 2010, I earned a slight profit for the month. Since then, I have not had a single month where the sales were higher than my costs. Of course, I knew it would be tough going in this rotten economy and expected as such that I would need to fund the business to the tune of about $400 to $600 per month. As I buy books from the public and trade with my customers, I see first hand the shock that people are suffering in this economic DEPRESSION. Yes, I said… depression.
Many people who’ve sold books to me are selling their total book collections to raise cash as they are not working… I am now paying about half of what I was paying for books when I first began the business. I’m an entrepreneur at heart. I’ve owned several businesses in the past and sold a company I owned in 2004 for enough money that provides a decent income for me. I recently divorced and I’m looking for a place in America were I can by a home for cash. I thinking about Las Vegas or Phoenix and will buy something in 2012 to keep as a stand-by home when my children leave for college in a few years. As for this economy, you’ve got to plan for the next 10 years to live frugally, prepare for emergencies by stock-piling food and be aware of what’s coming… IMO, most towns in America will look like Zimbabwe or Sarajevo in a few years. Why? Most Americans are still living above their true means and most have no savings of any sort to rely on in a time of need. WE will see true desperation soon… America may become the “first third-world former first world country” on the planet.
I’ve got a year’s worth supply of food… DO you? And, no debt to boot!
Great comment Andrew!
Michael
America has already the population growth rate of a third world country.
Here is something I do not understand. I read from many many folks on this site that they don’t trust the government to do things such as educate their kids, the whole EPA thing etc etc. I also hear the same things regarding state government.
Why then do these same people trust the government to not execute innocent people in death penalty cases?
The list of 17 things is great. Good Job!! I hope you can augment it even more with other details however, there are so many measurements that could be included.
One is that WalMart is losing customers to the dollar stores due to cheaper prices. That is where many people are now going to shop instead of WalMart.
Also, restaurants have seen almost a 18% drop of business now that more people are eating at home or just not eating as much.
Don’t tax the rich.
Tax the poor instead. It’s much easier. They can’t afford protection.
But don’t start whining for not getting any cash.
17 facts prove that maximum family of the America face a lot of problem.
truth hurts huh?
what good is this blog if one cannot point out what the real problems are?
The way I see it is that we lost “capitalism” some decades ago.
You cannot have corporations or unions openly paying bribes to politicians to vote in their favor. System corrupted.
Healthcare started to rise drastically when government got involved, this is true. Campaign “contributions” started coming in big time from those that could profit, by buying the political process. Special interests have desroyed the system.
Education costs went up and results went down with government involvement. Look this stuff up. It happens every time, within every field.
It’s probably to late now, but term limits and public financing of elections was likely the proper way to go. Keep the Politicians close to their constituants.
Network with entrepreneurs to create biz. Example: grain farmer, trucker, baker, shop owner; nobody gets paid at first. Imagine how you’ll feed the hungry. Create a regional currency, because your governor won’t create a state bank or local currency for some time to come. Go local: money into Credit Union, loan groups for local business, community gardens. See Katherine Austin Fitts’ Solari.com. Study Ponerology: Studies show about six percent of people are sociopaths, another twelve percent are borderline and will go along with the guy screwing you with political power. Paint a figurative scarlet letter on their foreheads and kick them out of the office/politics; see CAFR1.com. Shun crooked leaders, study legal procedures and sue them for their wrongs. Join and form teams for this; Commercial Law, Legal Procedure groups abound and are making headway. Gather the like-minded privately but know their friends and connections. VanDyke said create a “bank” with legal proceeds and begin employing court watchers to increase wins. A bible and Black Law dictionary used to be in every house. We must regain legal confidence. The courts are the tools the sociopathic minions of the Powers That Were use to steal our wealth. Hiring a lawyer as representative makes you “incompetent”. The amount of info legal researchers have gained will astound you. You must begin sifting through it to garner greater legal knowledge. Win back some of your tax dollars with a Title 18/42 action. A successful R.I.C.O action could do wonders. For starters, type ‘UCC’ into youtube.com -beginners need just listen in and about the thousandth time it begins to make sense. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps tens of millions worldwide are convinced that knowing the Law can save us. The focus is coming around to knowing procedures because “they” break them all the time, leaving themselves vulnerable to your lawsuit. One more seemingly unrelated thing: make & share colloidal silver.
The world will still be here after the economy “so called” collapses. No one has yet to identify the problems, which our current civilizations are going through. What troubles that need to be balanced before society can move forward. What is happening behind the scenes is truly troubling, but not to worry. The average man fails to pick a very high goal to strive for. Most settle for goals, which others set for them. For example, many people settle for the staged “sporting” events that actually have no meaning. Or settle for an “education”, which is nothing but indoctrination. Opps. Did we say something wrong. How about just Know thy Self.
We are screwed all thanks to the greedy politicans and bankers.
The snowball got pushed off the top of the hill in 1978 when interest rates and cost of living increases doubled public employee (and any other employee tied to C.O.L.) salary’s within the next 5 years. A case in point, a friend was delivering mail on a rural route in Northern CA and was paid 32,000/year in 1977. By 1982 he was getting 66,000 for the same route due to cost of living increases in the 20% range. Since then I can only guess where his and others salary’s have gone.
As the salary’s went up,so did pensions etc.
Now we have states, cities, counties and the entire country facing bankruptcy, as well as large corporations (GM for one) that can no longer service the pension /heath care costs and are going belly-up.
Add to this the mortgage disaster and people using inflated home equity to survive…
Didn’t even mention federal unfunded mandates requiring our local governments to use our money for services we can’t vote on. Talk about “Taxation without representation”, Patrick would have a coronary.
1) Fire Obama 2012
2) Drill Baby
3) Cut Gov Spending
4) Reduce Taxes
5) Reform Regulations
and to make 1-5 happen sooner IMPEACH OBAMA!
Ironically, I am in no financial difficulty and have zero debt, house is paid off, and I still have had to cut back massively.
Everything, including government services, costs more for the same service or costs the same for less service. Just the threat of lowering Social Security benefits or moving retirement to 70 means I have to save twice as much just to stay even. Increases in health insurance costs since ObamaCare (33% for me), have eaten up my discretionary income.
I can only imagine how bad it is for folks who bought homes at the top of the market, lost their incomes, or carry a ton of debt.
To survive the top economic must be trained when you are young to work hard and save as much as you can. In US at least you have food stamp for your kids. in others country, you are on your owned. Make a list of consider need NOT wanted, so basically there is only two things in life and they are food and water. Any thing else is just costomatic and no need. For food you need to learn how to cook to make it taste good and healthy for your family. And trying to make something different every day so the kids can have different taste evry time.
AMERICA IS ON THE VERGE OF A MASSIVE REVOLUTION BY THE PEOPLE TO TAKE THIS COUNTRY BACK FROM ALL THESE CORRUPT SELF CENTERED GOVERMENT AND CONGRESS INDIVIDUALS…THERE WILL BE ALOT OF CASUALTIES BUT THAT IS THE ONLY WAY TO RISE AGAIN.
Targeting the Real Enemy: Occupy the Fed
http://www.infowars.com/targeting-the-real-enemy-occupy-the-fed/
With what Americans are going through these days, American women truly need to show some more “Gloom and Doom” on their faces.
Suppose that when you try to tax a rich man, he just shoots you.
Then what?
Be sure to vote next November 6th and throw out the Party of NO…Republicans need to be held accountable for continuing to push Bush’s disastrous policies, and their treasonous behavior.
Saying we need to pay internet and cable bills goes to show we cannot live without technology. Knock those off and wow, you have a tad bit more more. There is no “government solution” to the “economic problem.” If how much money and how much stuff you have is a testament to how “well off” you are, then be my guest and say there is a problem.
Life isn’t fair. If it were we would all be happy. Someone is always going to have something you want but we all have the gifts to make ourselves happy.
By the way, the reason we will always have poverty is because people come with a new poverty line every couple of years.
ARE YOU OR YOYR KIDS BETTER OFF NOW THAN THREE YEARS AGO?