Must have big screen tv, cable ESPN and iPhone first. Then mortgage and car payment on bmw. Spend first save later.
first of all, 40% isn’t “half”, and second of all, if I understand the survey, that “about 40%” is actually 37%, which is closer to a third than a half ... in other words, just more fake news ...
You are correct. This is a completely false premise in the United States.
One can fairly argue that half or more of the world population lives a semi-subsistence or complete subsistence life. If they do not work that day they do not eat that day or a day in the future. Fortunately, this is true for fewer people today than ever before in human history, but it is still a fact.
Humans need food, water, shelter, warm clothing, and basic sanitation. Everything else is a luxury. The choices people make on how to spend their money are just that, their choices. If you neglect a basic need for the sake of a luxury that is a choice you make. If people want to see true poverty it exists and it is tragic, but if anyone writes such tripe about America and directly or indirectly blames a President they are dishonest in the extreme.
Trump has derailed many of the usual talking points of the left - bigly. They keep trotting out the same crap and it sounds even more ridiculous now.
The priorities that are practiced today in American households-—single up to 20 kids are disgusting.
Not only do they all have to have that $4000 big screen TV, they then have to pay for the EXTRA power that TV uses.
Wait until Calif is depending on Solar & wind power & those fancy TV’s go dark in the middle of the Super Bowl.
== ALL HANDS ON DECK.........to repel invaders.
They buy a lot of "stuff".
The Wilkins Micawber Principle:
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness.Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery."