There is no common sense anymore with the way people have disassociated from practicality and common sense.
Yes. Fully. (Actually, yes on everything you said)
I was taught it was "three generations from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves" (you started with nothing, worked hard, made money, your kids lived well, grandkids spent everything and went back to rock bottom... start the cycle over.) and it was my duty to not fall into that trap. And of course, also my duty to make sure that my kids didn't either.
I was always told that saving money was harder than making money.... you will never have as much money as you want. Force yourself to save, be frugal... live without....
But.. . Now a days.... when you hit rock bottom... it is much harder to climb back out of the hole.
All of (or at least most) of the many government handouts don't actually help long term.
And the barely making it and lower middle class pay huge taxes!
The year my son #3 went fishing... they took a QUARTER of his earnings. Because... working on a fishing boat, you get the money all at once, so it counts as a "windfall". Yeah, yeah, yeah.... I did the taxes correctly.... It shouldn't matter how he got the money, it should matter how much he made over the year! It is insane! There is no logic left in this world!
But I worry that it will get worse!
I often, (usually at tax season), look at laws and taxes in other countries. Most other countries have much higher taxes, even on lower income people.
I do not understand how people can be so blind.
So many of our country are pro- socialism/communism etc.
And yes, so many have no understanding of food...
Supposedly the world is supposed to come to an end this fall....
We shall see.
soils won't recover for years.
