Have Americans forgotten what a truly bad economy looks like? [View all]

[Takket]

Are things really as bad as for people as they think they are?

I looked it up, poverty dropped 0.4% from 2022 to 2023

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizations/2024/demo/p60-283/figure2.pdf

Likewise the number of people relying on food banks spiked during Biden's first year in office (because of the pandemic) but has leveled off. There has been no significant increase in the number of people seeking food assistance despite voters indicating they "can't make ends meet" because of inflation.

https://cosm.aei.org/exploring-trends-in-food-bank-use/

Sorry if this is going to come off wrong... I know there is a REAL (but finite) number of people struggling. Especially when they are being gouged on their rent by greedy companies that know people will either pay up, or sleep in their car. I'm NOT talking about them. But are there also quite a few Americans that are just whining? That are upset that food prices are high but can still fill their bellies and keep a roof over there head? Maybe they can't afford a brand new car or an addition on their house, but at least they HAVE a car and a house? That THINK their are suffering?

Have we forgotten 2008? Where people all over the country were losing their homes? Or the recession in the early 2000s? I haven't forgotten it. I was just married with a step-child to feed and was laid off TWICE. My partner became disabled during this time and we ran up debt to keep our family fed that haunted us for a long time. Now I'm being told by exit polls how awful the economy is. Where are the foreclosures? Where are headlines for mass layoffs? Where are the lines out the door at the unemployment office? Where are the lines around the block for bread? Where are the mass bankruptcy filings?

Granted Harris struggled more than expected with younger voters. So it is hard to remember things like 2008 and 2001 that happened when you were a child, or maybe not even born yet.

Well. I think we are all about to find out, or be reminded, just what a bad economy looks like. I just wish those of us that voted for Harris we're not going to be dragged down with everyone else about to find out.