The economic reality for 70% of Americans

More than a decade into the longest economic expansion on record, almost two-fifths of people said in a new Bankrate poll that their main financial priority was just keeping their heads above water on living expenses rather than saving money.

Nearly as many of those surveyed said that they’re not following financial budgets, according to Bankrate’s September Financial Security Poll.


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Yeahp, it's gonna be really bad. Make some friends now if you haven't already thag know about farming and God.

Nothing better than self sufficient people who believe they have a loving supporting God. Their faith will pull them theough anything and even if you don't have it, it will still help you.

It's not an employer's job to regulate finances

Or spending habits

Or credit card debt

That's a fact

Only one sticks closer than a brother

Even many who have good jobs

Are hopelessly in debt from skool loans

Thanks for pin

Buckle up

The storm is here

Yeah, it’s just their job to exploit the shit out of their employees, the good old Satan way.

You can pout

Or you can fix it

Choice is ours

Housin market doing great. Economy great. Housing will never crash and will keep rising. Trillion dollar houses soon.

This!





Yes student loans are at ridiculous levels. I can't count the number of stories of people who fell for them and then partied them away.

"because ;you know,getting the "college experience"

Sorry I had no "college Experience"
I went into the military, and 2-year technical college directly after h.s. graduation. I'm retired and comfortable at 59..

YMMMV.

The idea that people are going to grow their own food, and can and hunt and be self sufficient is fantasy land - I mean seriously I live in a neighborhood where everyone is on an acre and not a garden in sight.

Of all my friends and acquaintances across the board I know of and have known in my life very few people who have grown gardens, then if they have its mostly tomatoes and squash.

Seriously I have lived urban, rural - suburban life and I have known only a hand full of people who even supplement their diets with their gardens - and I am even talking about a few that are nearly off grid.

Old people - in my life the people who gardened were old people who remembered the depression -

I live in Florida now and you can't even grow a tomato without severe sun damage.
So now all this blabla I just shared above - do people honestly think there are those that will suddenly successfully grow gardens and can for the winter?

At best they will stockpile cans of food they purchased at Walmart.
Or have shitty horrible "food survival" food around.

Yeah, I know I am on a vent but people are so freaking delusional.
Not only do most Americans not have a safe back up plan, most of them are not emotionally equipt for hard times. Its gonna be a shit storm if SHTF.

Disaster always seems so distant

In some far away place

Easy. Do what I did. Work two full time jobs. Most folks are lazy wimps.

Community college can be pretty cheap.

If college is ones path

Community college is the cheapest

Define "housing bubble". From 2000-2008, home prices in my area doubled. That was a fucking bubble.

The house I bought in 2010 has the same market value now as when I bought it. Where is the bubble? Prices have been stagnant in most areas.

Having faith makes you stronger. Try it. It works. You create your own misery. You can change situations by believing you have a strong spirit. Pray.

Woah...that brought up a memory of my dream last night of shorting the stock market in a market crash lol.

Americans have to release themselves of the Fiat, Debt Burden, also known as the fake American Dream.

Go back to our roots of why America is Great, it wasn't about gadgets.

NOPE. however, if corp employers are routinely not paying living wages for full time adult jobs, they are subverting the economy en masse, and that is exactly what is happening right now.

Had a crazy dream the other night

SWAT everywhere rolling in APC`a

Basically arrested for anything including walking

Down the street

We have adults in this country that do not want to be adults. They want to be perpetual children.

If you are not raising your child in such a way that if you died tomorrow they could not make it in the world - you aren't doing your kid any favors.

My best friend in high school was such a person. Her parents spoiled her and I told them, they would be taking care of her forever if they didn't stop it.

Now, she is 52 years old and she still lives with her Mother. When her Mother passes, she will have to be put in a home.

If they can sell Mom's house and get enough money, which I doubt.

This girl had multiple abortions in her youth. Had she had any of those kids, she might have help now, but instead, their blood line ends and she dies alone.

Her father did taxes for Bill Clinton and they are big fans, so it may be just as well.

Most of the young have no idea what they're walking out into

It really is a mean cold world

Gonna get a lot colder too

I dont need zero hedge to tell me what I see with

My own eyes

Sorry but that is simply not true.
I`m from abroad visiting Orlando-Fl with my family right now.
I only see people spending like crazy! The TV is only commercial al the time about BIGGER & Fancier cars. You see housewives using V6 pickups ... for what for???

The problem is not the income, but the spending like crazy in shit that simply is not needed. A lot of house, with new colorful halloween decoration with moving parts, etc.. How someone in recession spend like this?

the obvious solution is to give those tens of trillions of dollars the military spends, the hospitals get, and the wall street bailouts of QE money to the people who need it to keep their houses fer god sakes

the whole planet is run by evil super villains

yeah the scariest most vomitous thing is how the super power criminals can recruit these armies of homoshits who run around blaming the poor for getting fleeced

these people need to run for their lives, every talk show host trying to incite hatred of the homeless needs to seriously feel the fear the homeless feel every minute of everyday

And they may be surprised to find that their unemployment check doesn't cover the rent.

And yet the #1 complaint of business owners like myself is that we can't find dependable, hard working people for the jobs we need filled.

Something is wrong with this picture.....