Posted on 05/11/2022 5:29:00 AM PDT by Macky Cracklins
A majority of Americans say they are worried about being able to maintain their standard of living, poll results released Monday by Gallup showed.
Fifty-two percent saw they are worried about their standard of living, up four points from 2020. This is the first time a majority has worried about being able to maintain their standard of living since 2016, Gallup said.
The worries are even more pronounced about lower-income Americans. The share of Americans earnings $40,000 or less who say they worried about maintaining their standard of living has soared 17 points 56 percent in 2021 to 73 percent today. It has increased six points to 52 percent among middle-income earners, defined as earning between $40,0000 and $100,000, and four points to 36 percent among the top income group.
Sixty-five percent of lower-income Americans say they worry about having enough money to pay their monthly bills, up 15 percentage points from a year ago. Fifty-nine percent say they worry about paying housing costs, including rent and mortgages, up 12 points from 2021. Seventy-five percent say they are worried they will not have enough saved for retirement, also up 12 points.
Lower income households are also more concerned over health care costs. Paying medical bills for a serious illness or accident is a concern for 72 percent of lower-income Americans, up 10 points. Paying ordinary medical bills is a concern 62 percent of lower-income Americans, up nine points.
For the population as a whole, there has been little change in the share of adults worried about paying medical costs for normal healthcare (43 percent), paying medical costs for a serious health illness or accident (56 percent), or paying for a child’s college education (36 percent).
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Indeed. The mission of those in government has been to lower the US standard of living in every way. Income, life expectancy, etc. The mission is to “level the world” so that wehre you live makes no difference, no one country stands out as “better” than another. That’s the globalist ideal. Portable work force, factories and so on.
Another goal is to instill that all cultures are equal, that no culture is superior to another. This is usually couched as diversity being a strength.
Americans who don’t sense that their standard of living is going to go down have been misled or are not clear thinkers. This trajectory has been steady for generations.
I had to quit drinking and smoking to make my budget work. Damn you f Joe!
Really? Open borders. Supply chain dependent upon China. Endless war on the other side of the world. Now they are worried?
Inflation is Dems Russian Gulag, and millions will be/are impacted.
It is getting bad for people out there. I don’t think either party cares because all they seem to care about is Ukraine and their pocket filling kickbacks for financial aid. The scum in DC ain’t suffering so who cares?
We can’t even get them to speak out and help those being sent to the gulag unfairly for Jan 6th or people ruined by fake vax injuries.
Ask yourself, if the GOP were to win in the midterms, would they do anything at all the voters were hoping for, OR will the current GOP leadership bring about losing it all in 2024.
I’’ll take the OR. They had it all in 2016 and sabotaged the voters and the POTUS.
I think the PAX Americana has about reached its limit and the rest of the world are tired of our moochers in chief. I know I am.
And another $40 billion to Ukraine....
Well, some thought they had planned well for their retirement. Couldn’t have planned for this crap.
Good. Stupid should hurt.
Ok, but to be fair, what fraction of that $40 B is actually going to leave the shores of America and what fraction will escape the clutches of the global hegemony who are pushing this war in the first place. I.e. are any Ukrainian non-elite citizens going to see a dime of that?
I’d say it’s now up to 75%, for the Big Guys, here.
Let’s say you make $100,000. This Brandon crisis will cost you at least 5-6000 extra after tax dollars not counting inflation. So your standard of living based on income will fall at least 15%, probably 20%, so yes that’s a HUGE HIT.
C’mon man…you colonials need to give up your lifestyle and go back to foraging in the fields and forests…
As men were leaving with their families...they were pulled out of line and told to fight or die.
The last two steps the Left needs to do is to destroy the Middle Class and disarm the law abiding people and then goodbye Republic and hello dictatorship.
These days federal spending of any kind is subsidizing the international military industrial complex, the health care big pharma complex, the education/indoctrination complex etc.
Ignore what they say, watch what they do.
utility increases
food increases
gas -- somewhat stabilized but still around $2 more than when Biden took office
general goods such as clothing and home needs
Well, some thought they had planned well for their retirement. Couldn’t have planned for this crap.
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