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In terms of what matters most in finally achieving financial stability, 42% say it would take spending less money than they make
It baffles me what the remaining 58% think.
In terms of what matters most in finally achieving financial stability, 42% say it would take spending less money than they make, 33% prioritize having a well-paid and steady job and 11% say having their own business.
Well it says right there after. Spending less than you make to achieve financial stability isn’t an option once your income level is low enough.
And Trump is leading in the polls.
He’ll sure make things better.
Fucking America… he’ll crash the economy even harder than last time when he declares himself dictator “for a day” and then that day keeps on adding days. This election shouldn’t even be close.
It just blows my mind daily that the insurrectionist moron has a legit chance to be elected. And he doesn’t even qualify under the 14th. I shouldn’t be surprised. I mean everything from “immigrants are rapists and murderers” and “grab them by their pussy” till whatever bullshit lies he spouted today. Really, really makes me question democracy. Not that I know of an alternative, but this shit isn’t working.
Have a look at any democratic system that is not the american two-party system.
Everyone around me is still hopefully optimistic and I’m over here in the corner ignoring everything pretty hard, because the second I open my mouth I start spouting what’s about to happen, and I piss off everyone around me by being too negative and depressing. Haven’t really had the courage to think of how to react to our new dictatorship reality with kill lists and camps for liberals that’s coming in November… Guess I’ll go back to Netflix and ignore it further, since that’s all I can realistically do, after voting.
“In the 30s, the pessimists went to New York and the optimists went to Auschwitz.”
And Trump is leading in the polls.
I was actually looking at some polls recently, and that was the area in which he scored the most-strongly versus Biden, on the economy.
In general, Americans tend to ascribe a lot of credit or blame to a president for whatever happens with the economy, regardless of whether the president has much to do with it or whether another president would likely do something different. That’s a long-running phenomenon, predates the present era.
I also posted another, older poll – IIRC this own covering Americans, Germans, and Brazillians – that showed that the public profoundly dislikes inflation. In particular, when asked in that poll, the public would rather have a recession than see high inflation, though normally consensus among economists as to which is more of a concern is the opposite.
Economic theorists haven’t exactly been a friend to the working class
