Do Americans Know What a Massive Ripoff American Life Really Is?

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81. A bit of an over simplification, of course.

But his postulate, that most Americans are poor, is certainly worthy of discussion. There’s certainly no disputing the fact that tge rich have been getting richer while the poor get desperate and the middle class gets depressed struggling to maintain a veneer of security fir their families. And there’s no question that George Carlin was on the money when, speaking of the extremely wealthy oligarchic class, he asserted, years ago, that “they own you.”

I don’t know how my life and finances compare to imaginary doppelgangers in Ireland, say, or Costa Rica; or how my adult children would compare to their peers in those and other countries. But I do know that my health insurance costs approach $9,000 per year — not including dentistry! — and that my mortgage, with 15 years to go, costs me more per year than a poverty-line worker earns in a year.

So something is wrong. And Umair did not even mention the cost of food and clothing! Yet when the topic of social safety nets and gov’t provided benefits is broached, millions of MAGAs — even those varely getting by and sinking ever deeper into debt! — scream “socialism!”

America is on the brink of falling off a cliff into a pit of corporate fascism and things can only get worse.