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Ah, quotation marks, like it doesn't exist. There is extreme financial insecurity in this country. It's wild that I have to explain what is right underneath everyone's noses to the people on here who are in their own world.

People on the bottom end economically are struggling more than they were a few years ago and more and more people are getting left behind.

https://www.lendingtree.com/debt-consolidation/household-expenses-struggles-study/

Key findings

• More than 1 in 3 American households are financially insecure in 2024. 36.4% of households reported in April that they had a somewhat or very difficult time paying their usual household expenses in the past week. That’s up 6.7% from 34.1% during the same period in 2022.
• Changes in household financial insecurity decrease with age. Americans ages 18 to 24 saw the biggest increase (25.0%) in difficulty paying expenses between 2022 and 2024, but that lowered with each age range examined. In fact, Americans 65 and older saw a 4.1% decrease in difficulty in this period.
• 31 states have seen an increase in difficulty paying household expenses. Between 2022 and 2024, three Western states — Washington (41.6%), Wyoming (33.4%) and Montana (30.7%) — saw the most dramatic increases in difficulty.
• Three different states report the highest financial insecurity in 2024. More than 4 in 10 households in Alabama (43.9%), Mississippi (43.6%) and Nevada (42.2%) reported difficulties in April 2024. Only D.C. reported that less than 1 in 4 households (24.9%) said the same.

This is why Joe Biden wasn't going to win before people realized he was old. Just in the last couple of years years, the fentanyl crisis has taken off in a lot of the country. ... that is happening hand in hand with increased homelessness, financial insecurity. And so many families are finding themselves affected. Even lower working class people who haven't been sucked under, are finding themselves working multiple jobs and feeling very financially insecure, because of how expensive their necessities have gotten. The people I am talking about maybe represented 2 out of every 10 people a decade or two ago. Now they are 3 or 4 of every 10 people. You are underestimating the amount of discontent there is if you don't understand what I am pointing out. It is what gave rise to Donald Trump in the first place (before prices were even taking off).