Nearly 50% of Americans say they are BROKE! Isn't it about time for a leadership change in the White House? Or is yet more Biden/Harris what we need?

[RingOfFire]

[Anonymous]

I will say that yes part of it is these pions in office. But a lot of it is choice as well. A lot people live beyond their means. You see it all the time. Girls walking around w name brand bags that cost more than what they have in their bank accounts. Dudes running around w gold chains, some dumb ass rims on their car, etc. A majority of us work to spend. We even spend money that we don’t have that we take out of our next check. Then people accumulate things that are costing them money. Just because someone can afford the monthly payments on a $1000 phone doesn’t mean they can afford it. Then they purchase something else that’s costing them a monthly payment as well. Before you know it they’re paying off 6-8 different things that total up into hundreds or even thousands. I know because that’s what I was doing. I had $35 on a phone, a tv that was costing $110 a month, clothes on a credit card w a minimum up $50 due each month in addition to some other things. So I was forking out about 4-600 extra a month on things I thought I could afford. Plus most people know that in you’re 20s you’re more than likely not going to make shit working. Most jobs we do in our 20s are general entry level jobs. Jobs that don’t require you to do much, to do a lot of thinking. I think when I hit my mid 30s is when I actually started making a good amount of money. But instead of learning how to make it work for me, how to invest it, what did I do? Like most people I said many o just got a raise time to get me a new car as well as a bigger tv. When those stimulus checks came out a majority of people spent it on nonsense. Someone mentioned illegals taking over the jobs. While that may be partially true, there’s a lot of jobs advertised here in Az. We’re right next to the border. The problem is a lot of people don’t want these jobs. They want a chip job doing nothing that pays $50 an hour. I think for a majority of people you’re life is what you make it. I did stupid shit like that till I was about 40. Finally stopped eating money on booze, stupid shit, etc, now I can say I have a good amount of money saved. These days there’s no reason someone shouldn’t be able to make some money online. Not a that kind of reach through the internet on various platforms.

[ManInChains]

My bank account hasn’t been raising for 3 years. Back before I got my first apartment I was making good money and now that I pay $810 for a 1 bedroom apartment I’m worried I soon won’t be able to afford my rent and I already have 3 jobs. Harris claims she would fix it if elected in November but she’s currently the dumbass in chief’s vp couldn’t she do something about it now? She’s using it as leverage to gain votes. She’s a traitor to the American people. If you want to afford to live again, vote TrumpVance2024

[RingOfFire]

"Harris claims she would fix it if elected in November but she’s currently the dumbass in chief’s vp couldn’t she do something about it now?"

You hit on a key point here. She keeps talking about what she's "going to do" but doesn't want to have anyone think about what she's already done. She has a track record. It's a track record of other failure.

The Democrats gave us an incompetent demented president for the last 4 years and covered it up while the country went down the sewer. Kamala Harris was right at the center of that deception and is still trying to gaslight Americans.

[ManInChains]

I’m not surprised. She’s a typical woman

[purplepoppy]

Then work harder. God you people are fucking lazy no wonder migrants can easily take your jobs.

[sage2021]

And the other half come from rich families and are in Corporate America 🇺🇸.

[exitseven]

What I want to know is with 1.2 Trillion dollars in credit card debt in the United States, what happens when people decide to just walk away from their credit card debts? Do the banks try and take everyone to court and try and collect the debts? Does the government bail out the banks again? Do they just let the banks fail? It will be bad no matter what happens.

[RingOfFire]

I would say it depends on who's in office and in control of government. If it's Trump and the Republicans in control, he will just improve the economy so much that it won't be a problem because people will be able to pay off their credit cards.

If it's Harris and the Democrats, they will raise your taxes and hand out your money to the people with the credit card debt and the economy will crash. Then they will create emergency measures that require you to do as they tell you to do. And you will have no choice but to comply.

[Avicenna]

There are a lot of reasons for this, but the large presence of illegals and legal immigrants displacing Americans from the labor force is one of main ones.

[RingOfFire]

Good point. You can't have 10 million illegals invading over three and a half years without some kind of catastrophic economic effect on Americans.

[Avicenna]

Exactly

[jshm2]

So?

Americans have been living beyond their means for decades.

That you cannot enslave, capture, and steal from other countries like before should be a wakeup call that it's time to abolish the American empire, before it tries what the Nazi's did.

[RingOfFire]

/\/\/\ Democrats FINALLY being honest about their agenda.

[Anonymous]

No one seems to care, they just fall all over themselves for senile Biden as if he was in perfect health before they dumped him, and now the completely incompetent Harris, and then Michelle Obama when they nominate her at the convention.

The rich certainly don't care because they'll be fine no matter who's in office. They won't be fine forever, but they don't realize that yet.

[NathanDavis]

if you can use internet and a smartphone to say you're broke... you ain't broke, lmfao...

[Guacamole409]

You can get a smart phone at Walmart for $35 and use their free Wi-Fi. That doesn’t sound wealthy to me.

[NathanDavis]

@Guacamole409 if you made it to Walmart with money... you're not broke either

[NathanDavis]

there's a myriad of middle points between "broke" and "wealthy"

[Juxtapose]

LOL so $35 and two legs is wealthy?

[NathanDavis]

Americans are way too privileged to know a different kind of struggle

a very first world concept of "poor" that is merely complaining rather than actual, struggle

[Juxtapose]

If you have to compare your situation to the 3rd world, you're broke.

[NathanDavis]

remember when all these big banks and wealthy institutions declared to be broke and got bailed out?

yeah.. they're still around and disgustingly rich AF... lmfao

that's another funny concept of "broke"

[Guacamole409]

That’s pretty stupid, nathan. That's like if I told you my leg hurts, and you say no it doesn't because you still have a leg.

[Juxtapose]

@Guacamole409 ^^ exactly.

And people aren't incredibly influential banks 🤣

[NathanDavis]

@Guacamole409 there's people who have no leg and they still feel their leg hurting...

it's in your head...

same as the (some) American (s) idea of "broke"

[Guacamole409]

What country are you from?

[NathanDavis]

@Guacamole409 I'm from Texas, so I do have a question...

if there's a national divorce, and whichever side I do end... can still get a passport to go back and forth between sides? or is there going to be a great wall in between as well?

[Guacamole409]

I'm not actually in charge of this, but I told Yabbut the first thing I would do is hire Google to figure it out. I don't know what the red country will do about the walls, you would have to ask them. But the red country will be strict on illegal immigration and crime.

[NathanDavis]

@Guacamole409 where will Texas end up?

[handsomelad70]

They're going broke because of corporate greed. America needs a true people's party, NOT the two corrupt rich folks' parties.

[RingOfFire]

Oh and I suppose there was no corporate greed prior to the day Biden and Harris walked into the White House when the inflation rate was 1.4% less than half of what it is now and the GDP growth rate was 6.4% more than twice what it is now?

Corporate greed was just discovered the day Biden and Harris took office. What an amazing coincidence!

[noohair]

It is the other 50% that is so rich that they don't feel the pain.

[Guacamole409]

It’s time for the national divorce.

[ManInChains]

A national divorce sounds like a good idea but just like how when a married couple gets a divorce the woman always takes everything from the man. I believe if we have a national divorce the American people will suffer and lose everything to communism/socialism.

[Guacamole409]

The blue half will be communism red half will be capital

[ManInChains]

Depends on who’s in power during the divorce I guess

[Guacamole409]

It depends on who’s in charge of Congress.