I live paycheck to paycheck, and I live in a studio with no washer/dryer, with a shitty car that I barely drive, barely able to afford all my bills. One paycheck isn't enough to cover rent. A trip to the grocery store for a week and a half or two weeks of food can run close to 100 bucks.
Financial mismanagement aside, it's a problem with the top 1% and how (((they))) control things. When you read between the lines, especially knowing a number of things with how the government has previously handled regulations and how corporations respond, it's very easy to see why the country is in the financial situation we're in.
And yes, it goes well beyond the government poorly spending money on wars for Israel and throwing money at non-profits. For example, the Affordable Care Act. The federal government mandated that corporations employing full-time workers provide health care for them, and they have to pay for it. In turn, many corporations began slashing hours and cutting their work force down so they didn't have to pay a bunch of money to ensure workers had health care. H1B visa abuse also began running rampant right around the same time the huge push for diversity in high-class workplaces started, which allowed major corporations to pay a flat fee to rush non-citizen workers into the labor market and of course, they can be paid less since they aren't citizens. This is now happening around the time that companies are starting to look into AI and automation, which could potentially threaten the jobs of millions all over again.
That's not even discussing the trillions of dollars our government has spent on ridiculous bullshit like, as mentioned before, military action in the Middle East, but also Obama's stimulus package, Paul Ryan's omnibus bill, millions to the national Holocaust museum, welfare, government subsidies. That in addition to the billions in taxes the 1% and major corporations are actively avoiding paying, either through tax credits, corporate tax inversion, and offshore bank accounts, and you see that most of the lower half of Americans are paying for things they don't want or never see while the upper half are reaping all of the riches.
When you look at the overall state of things, you begin to see the trend that overpaid executives and company/land owners are paying themselves more while paying their base-level workers and middle-management less while simultaneously hiring fewer of them to do the job. Over time, this slow creep of job loss and wage loss shows its effects on the economy; the lower 25% of American income earners are earning LESS than they did a decade ago while many metropolitan areas and even some states are raising minimum wage in a misguided attempt to help people though, I'd probably say that these pushes are intentionally meant to get people to screw themselves out of even more money and weaken the economy further, based on the knowledge that every time it's been done it's failed miserably.
This is all by design. Remember that money only exists to enable the influence of political power whether by bribes or legally via lobbying. Regardless of how much money the richest and most powerful people in America and, indeed, the world at large have, they intentionally work to keep everyone else down to ensure they alone have the ability to shape law, regulation, and government as they see fit to continue to enact their agenda to keep us down.
This is your daily reminder that these people are actively looking to enslave us. We are nothing but cattle to them. They want you to be in debt, sucking on government benefits, and dying, with your children being brainwashed and raped… and they think it's funny.
