"15 Reasons Why Everyone Is Getting Poor In America"
"Why does it feel like no matter how hard you work, you're still falling behind? It's not in your head. There are real, systemic reasons why millions of Americans are getting poorer while working harder than ever. In this video, we're breaking down 15 reasons why so many people are struggling to get ahead right now, and none of them have to do with avocado toast or buying too many lattes.
There are major food corporations admitting they're putting 3D printed meat in their products because they know most people can't afford real food anymore. Meanwhile, grocery bills are hitting $1,000 a month for regular families just trying to eat. And now they're blaming packaging shortages to raise prices even higher.
Middle-class jobs that used to pay $100,000 a year now barely covering minimum wage. Mass layoffs wiping out over a million jobs in 2025 alone and we haven't even hit the holidays yet. CEOs making 1,000 times what their workers make while cutting staff to boost quarterly profits.
To make things worse, corporations like Walmart are making entire communities poorer. Amazon is shutting down small business owners and keeping their inventory and money with no explanation. No wonder why young people realize that the college degree they went into debt for isn't worth the paper it's printed on and they'll be paying for it until retirement.
We talk about families using buy now, pay later apps just to afford groceries. Rent eating up 75% of people's income. A generation that can afford $2,000 rent but somehow doesn't qualify for a $1,500 mortgage. Corporations buying up all the housing and turning everyone into permanent renters.
We also show that utility bills doubling overnight because working families are subsidizing AI data centers for trillion-dollar tech companies. Car prices so out of control that the average vehicle on the road is now 14 years old. And instead of lowering prices, they're rolling out 15-year car loans and 50-year mortgages to keep you in debt forever. We expose healthcare costs that can bankrupt you even with insurance. The same medication that costs $600 in America selling for 30 cents in other countries. And after a lifetime of all this, retirement isn't even possible for most people anymore - because a million dollars isn't enough, and most people will never get anywhere close.
And at the root of all of it? The richest 1,000 people in America hoarding 95% of all available wealth while 330 million of us fight over the remaining 5%. This isn't about personal responsibility or poor financial decisions. The math simply doesn't work anymore for regular people. The system is broken - and more people are waking up to that reality every single day. If you've been feeling like the deck is stacked against you, you're not imagining it. You're not alone. And the first step to changing anything is seeing it clearly for what it is. Let me know in the comments which of these reasons hits closest to home for you. What are you seeing in your area? How are you and your family dealing with all of this?"
"Get ready for Black Friday chaos at South Coast Plaza, America’s richest mall! This massive shopping destination in Costa Mesa, California, boasts 2.8 million square feet, 250 stores, and jaw-dropping sales stats, making it one of the most affluent malls in the country. In today’s video, I’m taking you inside the crowds, high-end luxury shops, and unbelievable deals to see just how busy this place really gets during the holiday shopping season. From Louis Vuitton to Hermes, and even a Porsche design store, this mall has it all - but are people really buying? Let’s find out together!"
“Planetary nebula Abell 78 stands out in this colorful telescopic skyscape. In fact the colors of the spiky Milky Way stars depend on their surface temperatures, both cooler (yellowish) and hotter (bluish) than the Sun. But Abell 78 shines by the characteristic emission of ionized atoms in the tenuous shroud of material shrugged off from an intensely hot central star. The atoms are ionized, their electrons stripped away, by the central star's energetic but otherwise invisible ultraviolet light.
The visible blue-green glow of loops and filaments in the nebula's central region corresponds to emission from doubly ionized oxygen atoms, surrounded by strong red emission from electrons recombining with hydrogen atoms. Some 5,000 light-years distant toward the constellation Cygnus, Abell 78 is about three light-years across. A planetary nebula like Abell 78 represents a very brief final phase in stellar evolution that our own Sun will experience... in about 5 billion years.”
“Coming down out of the freezing sky with its depths of light, like an angel, or a Buddha with wings, it was beautiful, and accurate, striking the snow and whatever was there with a force that left the imprint of the tips of its wings - five feet apart - and the grabbing thrust of its feet, and the indentation of what had been running through the white valleys of the snow - and then it rose, gracefully, and flew back to the frozen marshes to lurk there, like a little lighthouse, in the blue shadows - so I thought: maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us - as soft as feathers - that we are instantly weary of looking, and looking, and shut our eyes, not without amazement, and let ourselves be carried, as through the translucence of mica, to the river that is without the least dapple or shadow, that is nothing but light - scalding, aortal light - in which we are washed and washed out of our bones.”
"How do Russian Shops prepare for Christmas? Join me on a tour of different shopping malls in Moscow, Russia. Russian shopping malls prepare for Christmas in a big way, with endless stores displaying and selling Christmas-themed products."
"We never know when our last day on earth will be. So, love with full sincerity, believe with true faith, and hope with all of your might. Better to have lived in truth and discovered life, than to have lived half heartedly and died long before you ever ceased breathing."
- Cristina Marrero
"Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays.
How Americans like to view this country in the world...
"But if we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries into the future, and we see the danger here to all of us."
- Secretary of State Madeline Albright, 2/19/98
"America is not exceptional because it has long attempted to be a force for good in the world, it tries to be a force for good because it is exceptional."
- Peggy Noonan
How most of the rest of the world views America, for good reasons...
Dated, but oh so true...
“We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world - a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us... No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we’ll kill you.
Well, shit on that dumbness. George W. Bush does not speak for me or my son or my mother or my friends or the people I respect in this world. We didn’t vote for these cheap, greedy little killers who speak for America today - and we will not vote for them again in 2002. Or 2004. Or ever.
Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us - they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. F*ck them.”
“And when they found our shadows (grouped ‘round the TV sets), they ran down every lead; they repeated every test; they checked out all the data in their lists. And then the alien anthropologists admitted they were still perplexed, but on eliminating every other reason for our sad demise they logged the only explanation left: This species has amused itself to death.” - Roger Waters
“Apathy and indifference are nurtured in the modern age as most peoples’ free time is frittered away with worthless trivia like ball games, computer games, movies and soaps, and fiddling with their mobile phones. These distractions might be fun, but after most of them you’ve learnt nothing of any value, and remain ignorant, malleable and suggestible, which is just how the elites want you.” – Clive Maund
“A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed… When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker, a raving lunatic.” – Dresden James
“A lie gets halfway around the world before
the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
– Winston Churchill
"30 years ago (1985) Neil Postman (a professor of communications arts and sciences at New York University – until his death in 2003) wrote the best-selling book “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”. (Free download below.) The book exposed, among other things, the subtle but profound dangers to the developing mind from the mesmerizing (and addictive) commercial television industry.
The lessons from that book have essentially been ignored by the amoral and corrupted sociopathic capitalist system that says “damn the torpedoes/full steam ahead” and blindly and greedily promotes unlimited growth no matter what the costs and who or what gets hurt long–term in the resource-extractive, exploitive and permanently polluting processes.
But Postman’s thesis applies even more strongly today to the current internet/computer/ age-inappropriate, pornographic sex and pornographic violence-saturated televangelist/political-contaminated media reality with which the prophetic Postman was properly alarmed.
SOMA, the Drug That Predicted Prozac by 50 Years: In the classic “Brave New World” (1932) Aldous Huxley wrote about the new form of totalitarianism that has now come to pass in the developed world, thanks to the privatized profit-driven, drug, medical and psychiatric corporations whose practitioners were once (naively or altruistically?) mainly concerned with relieving human suffering and trying to holistically and permanently cure their distressed patients’ ailments (rather than lucratively “managing” said “clients” as permanently paying consumers of unaffordable prescription drugs). Nearly 30 years after he wrote the book, Huxley said,
“And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods.” Neil Postman’s very last sentence of his book concerned the prescription drug-infested victims of the new form of totalitarianism that Huxley had described in “Brave New World”.
Of course, Huxley’s book was all about his imaginary psychotropic drug SOMA that Prozac’s makers and promoters in the late 1980s to falsely claim to make its swallowers “feel better than well”. One of the characters in Brave New World said: “And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there’s always Soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there’s always Soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears; that’s what Soma is.”
Postman ended his book by writing: “What afflicted the people in Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.” A couple of years after the publication of Postman’s book, Roger Waters (of “Pink Floyd’s The Wall” fame) released a “concept” album that was inspired by the book. He titled the album “Amused to Death”. The lyrics of the title track are as follows:
Pascal was a mathematician, a physicist, and invented the laptop computer, which was initially a plank of wood. In reality, he did some of the foundational work that showed that atmospheric pressure varied with altitude, even has a unit named after him. Pascal was also a philosopher, and thought a whole bunch about Christianity. This was back before the “let’s get a cappuccino and listen to Pastor Dave talk about why God wants lesbian ministers” type of church, and instead when there were debates on how salvation occurred and if free will was a thing.
Pascal wrote: “Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet, it is, itself, the greatest of our miseries.” And, although he’s dead, Pascal was entirely correct. We see it all around us right now.
Distraction is seductive. I remember we were on a family vacation and stopped at a Denny’s® to get breakfast. There was a line, and about 30 people (mainly families) were waiting. As I looked, every eye was focused on a phone – 30 people sitting next to each other, yet distracted by whatever it was that they were looking at. They had escaped reality, and also escaped talking to each other, almost as if they were addicted to the distractions coming to them over their iPhones®.
They did have bills. Their jobs sucked. Their immortal soul was in peril. But that’s difficult to think about, so it’s much easier to look at pretty colors and cat videos for ten seconds before flipping to the next infotainment bite. The distraction was total.
Is it any wonder that coping skills have been drastically impacted in the generation raised on the distraction of phones? Kids can’t cope because they’re never forced to confront themselves until the stakes are high. This creates a group of victims. I hate victims. A lot. They’re whiney and they suck every bit of energy out of the room, like psychic vampires. Oh, wait, I just described "The View." Huh.
Absolutely, there are people who are in situations that are far beyond their control. And, absolutely there are people who don’t deserve what fate has given them. However, when I look at people who have self-control, who have looked fate in the eye and said, “Yeah, so what? I’m still standing here, chump,” I feel admiration.
Neil Postman was a professor and writer, but then he died. Perhaps his best-known work is "Amusing Ourselves to Death," written in 1985. The Mrs. introduced me to it not long after we met, and I knew she was a keeper. In it, Postman talks about the impact of amusement. Amusement is close enough to distraction for our purposes and both Postman and Pascal are dead, so they can’t put up too much of a fight.
Again, Postman wrote about this in 1985, well before the every distraction, every place, all at once monster of the smartphone appeared. In it, Postman identified television as a drug. If so, it’s a gateway drug like aspirin, and the Internet is heroin.
It’s a world where, “Excuse me, I’m talking” becomes a replacement for actual thought and people thinking deeply about issues like old Pascal becomes rarer and rarer. A side effect is that the information we get becomes information we can’t take action on. Want to complain to your congressman? How would you even contact them? How would you get their attention? Hell, getting the attention of an HOA is nearly impossible in some subdivisions. Instead, you’ll complain to your neighbor.
Worse, though, is the impact that’s happening to our youth. The lesson that bad crap is going to happen to them so they need to learn deal with it simply isn’t taught because they just distract themselves away from the Truth they don’t want to consider. It’s not their fault – their brain is optimized to live in villages, and we distract them with the hardest hitting drug in history: the smartphone.
Failure is an option. And failure is a teacher, but when the teacher is fired and replaced with social media? The lesson is muted or ignored. How did Pascal manage to deal with being a religious philosopher, a mathematician, and a physicist? I guess Pascal was good at avoiding distraction and dealing with pressure."
Why Trump-O-Nomics Is Riding a Time Bomb" by David Stockman
Excerpt: "It should be damn obvious that the current blistering AI bubble is setting up Wall Street, the US economy and Trump-O-Nomics for a thundering bust. The AI frenzy has now gotten so out of kilter that fully $140 billion or 76% of the $184 billion gain in real GDP during the first half of 2025 was accounted for by feverishly surging investments in AI-oriented GPUs, network gear, server farms and data centers.
Moreover, this AI investment surge, which is expected to annualize to more than $425 billion in 2025, has been on a literally explosive growth trajectory. According to Grok 3, the comparable annual AI investment spending levels for 2022, 2023 and 2024 in the US were $104 billion, $179 billion and $250 billion, respectively. That is, the projected 2025 annual rate of AI spending will be up by 4.1X from just three year ago.
Of course, when you back out this AI investment explosion from the overall US investment spending numbers, what’s left is pretty punk. To wit, non-AI investment in US equipment and intellectual property in the fourth quarter of 2024 totaled $2.586 trillion, which figure rose by only $31.9 billion as of Q2 2025. So the annualized rate of gain was just 2.4% during the 2025 first half—a level far below the 12.2% annual gain in the AI-swollen BEA figure for total US equipment and intellectual property (first line) investment.
In short, what is propping up the entire main street economy is an immense speculative surge in AI investment spending that isn’t remotely sustainable because it’s based on a fevered stock market bubble, fueled by the Fed’s printing presses. And for want of doubt, let us remind what the real GDP and its major components looked like during the first half of 2025, excluding the AI investment eruption."
"Yesterday, we raised a provocative issue. If a foreign power - or space aliens - wanted to wreck our economy, why waste time and money on firepower? All they would have to do is cut off our access to funny-money credit. Auto sales would stop. House building sites would go quiet. Restaurants and hotels would be safe spaces for mice and cockroaches. Millions of people would be out of work. Millions of houses would be foreclosed. There would be long lines at the food banks.
It’s credit that makes the world go ‘round today. ABC news: "Americans’ household debt levels – including mortgages, car loans, credit cards and student loans – are now at a new record high, according to data released Wednesday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Total household debt reached $18.59 trillion from July through September of this year, up by $197 billion from the previous quarter. Overall debt levels are up by $4.4 trillion since the end of 2019, just before the pandemic recession."
When one of our forebears arrived in the New World, early in the 18th century, he came subject to an indenture. He was a Scot and had been captured by the English in one of their battles. They then sent him to Kent Island, Maryland, where he was purchased by a local planter. He was lodged and fed with the African slaves. Unlike the Africans, he was released after seven years, when his indenture was up. But during those seven years, his time was not his own. He was obliged to work for his master.
A 30-year mortgage is a kind of indenture, an obligation to work for someone else’s benefit. A 50-year mortgage extends the indenture...requiring a half century of servitude. So, the shift from owning one’s own house, car, tools, etc...to just making monthly payments on them...was an important difference. The master became the slave. The economy changed from accumulating wealth to accumulating debt. And the political system no longer encouraged wealth building; instead, the voters were urged to go deeper into debt in order to stimulate the economy!
One of the most remarkably blockheaded programs in US government history was the 2009 CARS act. It paid people to trade in their old autos and buy new ones. Then, it required that the old cars be murdered, by lethal injection. The engine oil was replaced with sodium silicate, which caused moving parts to seize up permanently.
What possible utility was served by getting rid of cars before they arrived at the end of their useful lives? A later study by the Quarterly Journal of Economics found the ‘Cash for Clunkers’ program to be completely useless. Researchers found “no evidence of an effect on employment, house prices, or household default rates.” The only substantial effect was to get people out of the cars they owned...and into cars they didn’t own, requiring monthly payments! People who had had no auto debt now saw themselves indentured for four years.
Looking at the economy at large, the shift from real money to credit money changed the economic system, the political system, and the social structure. Households used to have to work and save. That is, they had to produce wealth before they could enjoy it. Wealth earned...and wealth enjoyed...were equal. Both rose in tandem.
But today, you can get the cart and the horse at the same time - without having to fully pay for either. The average person uses the credit system to enjoy houses, cars, vacations, meals, and big screen TVs. They are all readily at hand...but only by accepting a lifetime indenture...in which he pays monthly, and cannot tolerate unemployment or higher interest rates.
As we saw, the price of the average house is now $420,000. With interest over 30 years of mortgage, it comes to more than $800,000. Pay interest on a 50-year mortgage, however, and you will pay $1.2 million. The man with capital...with savings...with real money, meanwhile, will pay only $420,000. He will enjoy the same house for the same 50 years as the man with the half-century mortgage. But he will pay only a third as much. What’s more, he will enjoy the independence and the confidence of actually owning his own home. Bad times...good times...low rates...high rates - he will still have a roof over his head.
Today, no act of Congress is necessary to bring US households to their knees. No attack by a foreign power...or extraterrestrials. Not even an Executive Order. The Fed simply has to increase the interest rate. Credit would dry up, overnight. In 1980, Paul Volcker was able to push the Fed’s key rate to 20%. He did it to squeeze inflation out of the system. Today, with US households much deeper in debt...and much more dependent on credit… even 10% would be…the day the earth stood still."
“Literally everything the left did, every line they crossed
and rule they broke, all came back to slap them in the face.”
- Insurrection Barbie on “X”
"Indeed, you have a lot to be thankful for this week of humble national gratitude - for instance, the explosive new revelations as to just exactly how US elections have been rigged, and how, it now appears, Mr. Trump and his people, are prepared to go mad-dog on the sinister forces behind it.
This supposedly was behind last week’s “Seditionist Six” prank, the slickly produced video arranged by Senator (former CIA official) Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) and sidekick Sen. Mark (“the Astronaut”) Kelly (D-AZ) advising US military personnel about the option to disobey “illegal orders” from the command structure (that is, from President Trump on down). What illegal orders? They did not specify.... suggesting, perhaps, orders that had not yet been issued, for an emergency as yet also unspecified.
Accept, for now, the uncomfortable fact that our country has entered a miasma of uncertainty. That is, you don’t know what’s going on... but something surely is going on, and it seems sort of, I dunno, momentous... something with the odor and flavor of a... “color revolution.”
By the way, everybody’s attention got focused instantly the night before Thanksgiving when one Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan brought to to the US with the 2021 Afghanistan evacuation under Operation Allies Welcome, ambushed two National Guard troops a few blocks from the White House. Specialist Sarah M. Beckstrom, age 24, died from a head wound and Staff Sgt. Andrew J. Wolfe, age 31, remains hospitalized. There was nothing else on the TV news that night except the shooting.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, turns out, had worked for nine years as a GPS tracker specialist in Unit 03 of the Kandahar Strike Force (aka “Scorpion Forces”), initially under CIA oversight via its Special Activities Division, with some JSOC training, before transitioning to Afghan intelligence. In other words, he was not just some mook with a donkey. He had lately been taken in by a sympathetic American family in Bellingham, WA - a roughly three-thousand-mile journey to Washington DC - where he did his deed. If he flew on an airplane to get there, just how did he manage to smuggle a handgun through airport security? Or did someone, maybe, give him one on arrival in DC? Was he still, one way or another, in the employ of the CIA? I guess we’ll find out.
Now, with the nation’s attention split this week between the DC ambush story and the culinary difficulties of Thanksgiving, the election fraud story unspooled in alt media. Surprise, surprise! Turns out to be our auld acquaintance, the Kraken? Remember that monster? Eminent DC attorney Sidney Powell, had conniptions over the Kraken in the months after the 2020 election that ushered senile (let’s just say it) “Joe Biden” into the Oval Office for four disastrous years. (After which, Sidney Powell was methodically defamed and prosecuted by mysterious forces.)
Ms. Powell threatened to “release the Kraken,” meaning: a malign combine out of Venezuela had managed to foist Dominion vote tabulation machines all over the USA, but especially in swing vote states, along with Smartmatic software. And all this janky machinery was connected by the Internet through Serbia to the CCP, or something like that. And that this machinery, plus massive voter fraud operations run by Lawfare ninjas Norm Eisen, Marc Elias, and Mary McCord, with help from Mark Zuckerberg’s $400-million Center for Tech and Civic Life org, prestidigitated millions of extra votes needed to push “Joe Biden” into the winner’s circle.
Those of you who stayed up late the November night in 2020 also probably witnessed some impressive magic tricks in the election returns - for instance, the mom-and-daughter team of Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss pulling a switcheroo in the Fulton County (Atlanta) election HQ, captured on closed-circuit TV, while vote-counting was shut down for several hours due to a “broken toilet”... and the wondrous vote flipperooski in Michigan... and the panel trucks delivering bales of extra ballots in the wee hours of morning to the main Philadelphia election HQ... and presto-change-o, you got a senile president.
Michigan Vote Flipperooski, Election Night, 2020
This voter fraud business is evidently a global operation, involving elections in many other countries over several election cycles, carried out by a broad network of NGOs and government agencies, such as the now dismantled USAID, which acted as a money-laundering service for all these ops. A good place to start your own research is independent reporter Emerald Robinson’s “X” account.
Mr. Trump, for one, has always been adamant that the 2020 election was a fraud, but it has taken all year, apparently, to convince White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles that this is so, and now, we’re told, Mr. Trump is about to go after the perps. The hard evidence is there, rumor has it, the receipts, and that is why the Democratic Party is freaking out... including that “Seditionist Six” message about refusing orders from the Commander-in-Chief.
The kernel of all this (maybe paranoid, maybe not) is that the DC blob is cornered and that its only hope to escape prosecution, punishment, loss of power and perqs, and possible extinction, is to pull off a coup to bum-rush Mr. Trump out of office by main force. Meaning, our country might be at war with itself right now. Are perp walks in the offing?"
"Peaceful, empowering and soothing music and nature to nurture your mind, body, and soul. Supporting and empowering you on your life journey. 528Hz positive energy healing music with 417Hz Solfeggio frequency. These frequencies have a specific healing effect on your subconscious mind." Be kind to yourself, savor this extraordinarily beautiful video. Headphones recommended, not required.
“Namibia has some of the darkest nights visible from any continent. It is therefore home to some of the more spectacular skyscapes, a few of which have been captured in the below time-lapse video. We recommend watching this video at FULL SCREEN (1080p), with audio on. The night sky of Namibia is one of the best in the world, about the same quality of the deserts of Chile and Australia.
Full screen recommended.
Visible at the movie start are unusual quiver trees perched before a deep starfield highlighted by the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy. This bright band of stars and gas appears to pivot around the celestial south pole as our Earth rotates. The remains of camel thorn trees are then seen against a sky that includes a fuzzy patch on the far right that is the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. A bright sunlight-reflecting satellite passes quickly overhead. Quiver trees appear again, now showing their unusual trunks, while the Small Magellanic Cloud becomes clearly visible in the background. Artificial lights illuminate a mist that surround camel thorn trees in Deadvlei. In the final sequence, natural Namibian stone arches are captured against the advancing shadows of the setting moon. This video incorporates over 16,000 images shot over two years, and won top honors among the 2012 Travel Photographer of the Year awards.”
"People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer."
- Eve Ensler
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“You go up to a man, and you say, “How are things going, Joe?” and he says, “Oh fine, fine... couldn’t be better.” And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.”
"Americans are waking up to a harsh truth in 2025 - the cost of simply existing is rising faster than paychecks, savings, or stability can keep up. What used to be manageable monthly bills have turned into financial pressure points, and millions are now asking the same question: “How much longer can we afford this life?” As this year unfolds, that pressure is reshaping every corner of the U.S. economy. Behind the headlines and political noise, a deeper shift is happening - one that explains why groceries feel pricier, why utilities keep climbing, why rent never seems to fall, and why so many people feel like they’re working harder just to stand still.
In this in-depth breakdown, we examine what the real cost of living in America looks like in 2025 - using verified public data, real stories from American workers, and clear analysis of the structural forces pushing families to the financial edge. This isn’t about fear-mongering. It’s about exposing what millions are feeling but few are talking about openly.A new chapter is unfolding - one where the American household budget is stretched more tightly than ever before. These pressures aren’t isolated. Together, they form a system that makes survival feel harder each year - especially for young adults, working families, and anyone relying on a single paycheck. This isn’t a temporary squeeze. It’s part of a long-term economic reset - one that’s changing where Americans live, how they work, and what financial security looks like in the future."
"Fast food was supposed to be the cheap, quick option. Now people are spending $30, $40 at the drive-thru and leaving disappointed. In this video, we're looking at what's really happening to fast food and restaurants across America, skyrocketing prices, shrinking portions, and food quality that's gotten noticeably worse. We'll go through TikTok clips and comments from people sharing their real experiences: $40 McDonald's orders, $70 pizza deliveries, $24 salads, and soups that taste like chemicals. Meanwhile, chains like Wendy's are closing hundreds of locations, Chipotle is reporting double-digit sales drops, and consumer confidence is at its lowest since 2022. The companies got greedy, pushed prices as high as they could, and now people are staying home. Is this the beginning of a bigger collapse? Let's talk about it. If you've stopped eating out because the prices aren't worth it anymore, you're not alone. Let me know in the comments what you've been noticing at restaurants in your area."
