Freedom is not for the weak. You need to be strong in order to maintain a society that is free, and that means having a solid moral character as well as being healthy in body and soul. And that’s why the Democrats, who have been poisoned by radical left-wing progressivism, want you to be pathetic and weak. You will then be less likely to survive in this world on your own and be completely dependent on them for help. And that makes you docile and easy to manipulate and control.
And that’s why our food is full of unhealthy junk, our air is poisoned — so is our water — and they try their best to make us as dumb as possible from our earliest days. Which is why they force feed programming down into our brains that is designed to make you feel hopeless, depressed, and terrified. These same powers-that-be also want you to be hooked on illegal substances and want you to spend, spend, spend, even if you don’t have the cash available to cover the cost of your lifestyle.
This means you need them to make ends meet. To make it. And that translates into you doing whatever they tell you to do or else risk them cutting off the help you require.
via End of the American Dream:
When I was growing up, $80,000 sounded like an enormous mountain of money. And it actually was a very significant amount of money in those days. But in 2025 it just doesn’t go that far. Today, the median household income in the U.S. is approximately $80,000 a year. Approximately half of all U.S. households make more than that, and approximately half of all U.S. households make less than that. So if your family earns $80,000 in 2025 that would put you about right in the middle.
So can a typical family of four survive on $80,000 in America today? The answer might surprise you. Over the past four years, the cost of living has been rising much faster than our paychecks have. As a result, our standard of living has been steadily going down. $80,000 breaks down to about $6,666 a month. So how far will $6,666 a month stretch for a family of four in today’s economy?….
As the author of the piece, Michael, points out, a family’s first need is housing. According to the data, the household income you need to make in order to purchase an average sized home
First of all, our hypothetical family of four needs a place to live. As I discussed the other day, the household income required to purchase a typical home in the U.S. has more than tripled since 2012. Right now, the average mortgage payment in the U.S. is somewhere around $2,200. Yikes. After the mortgage is paid, you have $4,466 left to cover the rest of the bills.
Oh, but wait. You have to pay utilities for the home. The average household will spend a total of $600 a month for all their utilities. Now you have $3,866. It’s shrinking fast, right?
“Our family is also going to need phone and Internet service. Cell phone bills for a family of four can balloon to ridiculous proportions, but let’s assume that our family of four is extremely budget conscious and has found a package where they can get basic phone service for 50 dollars a month and Internet service for 50 dollars a month. Now we are down to $3,766,” Michael writes.
Mom and Dad will require vehicles in order to get to work. We can assume given the tight budget the vehicles are used. Payments run about $600 a month for both. We’re being generous here. Boom. Now you have $3,166 left. You probably think we’re doing good. You, of course, are wrong.
You might have forgot about insurance. That’s going to be $100 a month as long as both have stellar driving records.
Here’s the big blow to the bank account: health insurance.
“Our hypothetical family of four is also going to need health insurance. According to Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, a typical family of four will spend $1,437 a month on health insurance,” Michael says in the article. “Now we only have $1,629 left.”
“Our hypothetical family is also going to have to eat. Let’s assume that our family clips coupons and cuts corners any way that it can and only spends about $50 for each member of the family on food and toiletries each week. That works out to a total of $800 a month for the entire family,” he adds.
Honestly, that number is probably fairly low. There’s only $829 left.
“Needless to say, our hypothetical family will also need to buy gasoline to get to and from work each week. Let’s assume that they don’t live too far from work and only need to fill up both vehicles about once per week. That would give them a gasoline bill of about $50 a week or $200 a month. Of course if either of them has a long commute to work or if a lot of extra driving is required for other reasons this expense could be far, far higher,” he continues.
Well, after all that, we still have $629 left, so we did good right? Nope.
Taxes.
That will suck about a fourth of your income out the window or down the toilet depending on your point of view. After taxes we’re actually $1,371 in the negative. Yeah. That’s bad. And we didn’t even factor in credit card or student loan debt. Or clothes. Or hobbies. Or life insurance. Or family vacations.
They want you trapped in this system. It keeps you hopeless, depressed, and dependent. It makes you believe there’s no possible escape and that you need them to take care of you. All you have to do is let them have control over your life.
Because, as the author notes, if you don’t take control of your life, someone else will.
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