The situation is hopeless and a lot of people are going to have a very RUDE awakening when the SHTF. Many are so clueless about a household budget, and couple THAT with so many being LAZY and so many so used to being given everything FOR FREE.
When the SHTF I’m expecting riots in the cities and when they’ve destroyed all of that, I see the mongrels heading out to the countryside to harass those of us who have always paid their way through confiscatory TAXES.
TAXATION IS THEFT! INFLATION IS THEFT! Don’t kid yourselves; Mother Government is in the BUSINESS of THEFT and wealth redistribution.
It’s not going to end well. It never has ended well for any other country that’s gone broke.
I do believe you’re right.
My own personal drama, whined about here previously: Over the past five years, my cost of living expressed on a monthly basis has increased nearly $2,000. It’s just me, two Kats, and a home I own outright here in CA. My lifestyle changed not one iota. But the system decided that it wanted more of my money, so they took it. Somebody has it. I want to know who, and I want it back.
My reward for working my ass off pretty much all of my life, staying out of jail, never a penny in ‘public assistance’ of any kind, and playing by the rules... A Chump, in other words.
Much of it isn’t laziness. Do you know how difficult it is to find a job?
Today it’s insane.
And unemployment insurance pays a whopping $295/week, only for 12 weeks. You read that right, it’s enough to cover food and that’s it.
I have LinkedIn premium and there can be over 100 applicants to a job less than a minute after it’s posted.
I’ve applied to jobs paying $16/hr to $230k/year and after 7 months crickets.
I have too much and too little experience having being in the workforce for half a century.
Employers are absolutely ridiculous in their demands.