Hitting the Financial Precipice
ARE WE THERE YET?
Seems like a good bulk of the US population is approaching the financial precipice. Been reading how health insurance (for people lucky enough to enjoy) have increased 3-5 fold with employers in 2024. The cost of everything becoming prohibitive. Massive layoffs. The media adds salt to the wound by touting strong metrics.
Painful awakening for many.
For the second month in a row, I have spent more money bailing out my parents than on my own needs.
Can Trump and the Q team just DO THIS ALREADY?!
There legit better be some financial compensation to everyone who's sat thru this shit for 7+ years after we seize all the DS stolen money assets.
What were our opportunities to put an end to it? Serious question.
I hope you're right, but I refuse to let myself believe it.
I'm bailing out one of my children - basically they've had to move back in with us - plus husband and granddaughter. I'm grateful I can help out but at some point I'll be dead & gone....
Make the Waltons great again
Awesome
That’s the way I feel. Rip the band aid and finish it
i understand and i'm completely with you!! what makes me mad is that Q said we are the majority and we are safe. if so, then lets freaking gooooooooo! why do we and our loved ones have to suffer just to make waking up for the normies easy?
Wait until food becomes unaffordable. Think of all the food plant fires over the last couple of years.
I heard those were burned by the white hats since those factories were adding toxic additives to the foods, which are the main disease causing agents. As usual, take it with a grain of salt.
I heard the opposite, what site do you source for this knowledge?
Not sites. They don't publish such info on websites. I heard it in a few podcasts on alt media. Its an information warfare. Use discernment.
Where do you hide the bodies of human trafficking... mix them into the food supply. Also food industry and refrigerated trucks and slaughter houses make it easy to dispose.
Yes some poison food. But I bet more of it is with human trafficking and disposal
Hog Farms in Cananda.
Stacy Abrams and Amy Schumer are in Canada?
Brick Top : And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to Stacy Abrams. You got to starve the Stacy Abrams for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the Abrams' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through Abrams shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen Abrams to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps an Abrams farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single Abrams can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as an Abrams".
¿Por que no los dos?
Synomax!
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It is likely one or the other. We don't know.
The attacks on the food plants seem more like a plan to create inflation and storage. I hope you are right though.
Yea that sounds dumb as hell, and doesn't seem like it would achieve the goal of getting rid of toxic additives in foods.
Food is what ultimately makes the masses riot. Historically, revolutions start when food costs make up more than 40% of people's income.
3 meals away from a revolution enters the chat.
Being hungry is still one of the greatest motivations - people change, especially when they have to feed their kids. Best thing to do is keep a well-stocked pantry and plenty of ammunition, because it is likely to get crazy.
It's going to be a wild, crazy year. Hunkering down till January 2025 has got to be our battle cry! Hang in there folks. The darkest hour is just before the dawn.
My thoughts exactly. Hold on tight its going to get wild. I don't think we'll recognize this world a year from now. Either we will be free or totally & completely enslaved.
A bit of Mamas and the Papas there…..great song!
I’m 58, my parents raised me on oldies. Big Beatles fan (hit Liverpool in 2020), Zeppelin too. I’ve always known about the Mamas and Papas of course, but only grew to appreciate them and their origins/catalog in the last year.
I am circa 70 years old, and I can tell you that when my age hits the rest homes, we will have the best music to listen to.
My fave thrift store plays awesome music from the 60s-70s makes for a snappy shopping visit.
Indeed!
I work at a cancer center where snacks are donated regularly for the patients to enjoy. The donations have come to a trickle. I’m not complaining, just thought it was due to the increase in cost of snacks.
Snacks for cancer patients are not helping them. Have heard this before of cancer centers pushing snacks, Sugar feeds cancer.
Its always been such dastardly business - come let me bring you to the brink of death and decimate your immune system with my cancer treatment, while feeding your cancer its favorite food!
My nephew would eat candy and cookies while receiving chemo.
Yes, he died,
Sugar feeds cancer because parasites need sugar.
Fasting!
Am sorry, sad story
Yes it is.
Thank you.
yes^ it's like giving a animal a treat as they're gong to the slaughterhouse....
they could be healthy snacks.
Like carrots? Doubt it
I volunteer worth an organization that rescues children from trafficking.
Ever year there's a big donation in person dinner. Big donations I've seen are anywhere from $20k-90k, as small as $200. Average is probably between $2k-5k.
This past year? I've never seen the person with the mic repeat themselves 3 times if anyone wants to donate to some of the needs. Everyone in the room was silent. It was awkward, but moreso a show of how hard the economy got hit. I've been going for about 11 years, never seen this before.
And all those snacks are sugar and preservative laden which the cancer patients do not need!! As a cancer patient I never touch those things.
Agree, but I think with some of them it’s their only meal. Sad.
Sorry to hear. Hoping theres a positive prognosis waiting for you in the near future.
So far after double mastectomy, radical hysterectomy, radiation in 2021 and just on hormone blockers and verzenio. Well and I take all the natural stuff on the side too, but so far NED.
Charitable donations are way down.
I used to give pretty regularly to the Humane Society and ASPCA, but when I found out their executives were making six figures, and that an average of 2-5% is left over for actual animal services, I was pissed. All those commercials tearing at your heartstrings are a deceptive crock. Better to give to the local shelter, cleaning supplies, blankets, food, things like that. Those animal charities are as crooked as hell.
Thats the biggest problem with donating money to a cause, and not knowing what % ends up going to where its most needed ... for this reason I would much rather donate my time and efforts.
They’ve been exposed. A friend the other day, out of the blue asked me if I thought the Red Cross was crooked. And they gave up on that stupid “let us distribute your charitable contributions for you — for a fee of course”, United Way/Fund CRAP around me. Finally!
Give DIRECT and LOCAL only. (From a former HeiferProject milk carton donate my candy money kid. IYKYK.)
Think about what Q said about the Red Cross and how corrupt it is.
Every time I see illegals wrapped in Red Cross blankets in news footage in NYC and Chicago, I'm also like, F them. Never another dime to the Red Cross, ever.
Even the too big to fail companies are hurting.
Amazon for instance is cutting staff at subsidiary’s. Twitch lost 35% of its staff in one go.
Gaming industry has seen 2,000 layoffs in the first 10 days of 2024. A little over 25% of the layoffs they had for the entirety of the last year in the first 10 days. Which paints a dismal picture for the Tripple A studios going forward.
Number of part time jobs is rising. Full time decreasing.
Hollywood is projected to continue hemorrhaging money. Which means the entertainment giant’s are going to probably cut even more.
Reports streaming in from overseas aren’t particularly positive either. The Chinese are, at least according to reports, appear to be in the opening throes of an outright economic collapse. Not just a slowdown or recession.
Rumors are the publishing of earnings reports from last quarter are going to be the signal for another round of layoffs.
It just means they were replaced with AI.
Now Blackrock
Checking the Debt Clock every day. The new secret message is pretty powerful [already been posted] about Jesus and the moneychangers.
Where are there massive layoffs? I'm not saying you're wrong, it's just that I haven't heard anything about it, and employers are desperate to hire people where I live. There are help wanted signs everywhere, and some places are even advertising online and on tv trying to find people. Everything from food servers making $13/hr to computer security specialists making 150-200k/yr. Nurses, teachers, cashiers, etc...
Maybe it's a regional thing?
Only job growth is in part time work. And even some of that is fake postings online.
Amazon is laying off people.
After the holidays Amazon always lays off the seasonal staff in almost every division. This goes for temporary seasonal hires at UPS, FedX, Target, Walmart and Costco, etc.,.
Amazon layoffs are more exacerbated
Hmm, that's not what I'm seeing, and that's not what the numbers are saying.
What numbers are you looking at? I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'm trying to figure out why I keep seeing people here state that the job market is so bad when that's not what I'm seeing, and that's not what the numbers are saying.
I know that we tend to skew more toward rural areas, and those places don't really have good job outlooks. So maybe it's a location thing.
I have been lucky enough to be single and no kids. That's the only reason why I am making it.
I pray for all of us at this time. It's only going to get worse.
4/15/2024
Federal income tax due
Layoffs between now and then
It will be ugly
Completely anecdotal observations, my $.02:
I go to a lot of local restaurants and breweries, generally everyone seems increasingly squeezed, & noticeably less willing to take risks than even a couple of years ago. I’m noticing unusual partnerships between businesses forming with the obvious goal of sharing risks, huge expansion plans for some that haven’t quite panned out or been put on hold, breweries cutting marketing people to make the operation leaner, etc. And I can’t help but notice when a nice new restaurant opens, it’s almost inevitably met with a chorus of “it’s good, but too expensive”.
I own a small brewery in the U.S. We've seen people holding back for the last 6 months at least. We've also had increases in costs. Finally had to raise prices, but nowhere near enough to offset the cost increases. It's getting tough, very tough for small biz out there. I'm hopeful we can make it, but fear that we'll lose many many small businesses. Each one will take 5-50 jobs with it, and will destroy families. I ride the daily rollercoaster of "soon and we'll make it" to "Holy shit, <insert craziness here>". I don't know what else to add without going full retard, but... FUCK!!!!!!!
I don't know about how much our premiums will be as my husband's health insurance is almost completely funded by the company, but I do know this year is looking bad for actual production. 6 days work in Jan. Probably 6 days or less in Feb. How does one pay bills and feed a family with basically no income? His second job employer still owes him over 13k from last years work and a supposed bonus (which he will likely never get). Last year they worked 6 days a month until July before things picked up. I expect worse this year.
The ever changing algorithm to make the economics seem better. Whenever I hear someone quote an updated financial I cringe.
Sadly I think everyone has to feel it. Bank collapse and something worse than the great depression will occur.
Until the Market crashes......
I’m thinking the same. No way the people close to and in retirement will wake up in their twilight years until their pension funds are wiped. Naked shorting, FTDs, floats sold multiple times over, banks hiding their panic, the list goes on. Every bit of the economy will be affected. I suspect crypto will crash once the public has bought in and the institutions have cashed out too. I’m hoping meme stocks reverse direction when this happens so there is a chance to soften the blow of a market collapse. Then gold will destroy the FED in the end IMO.
Where has health insurance risen this much?
No idea. And I don't understand why anyone here would be so upset about it, anyway. I would think anyone here who understands that the medical industry can't be trusted wouldn't be so worried about health insurance. Why would anyone who understands how evil the medical industry is willingly pay money to go to them so they can harm you?
President Trump got that stupid clause in the ACA eliminated, where it was saying people either had to have insurance or pay a penalty. So you don't even have to pay a penalty any more if you don't have insurance.
The only thing the medical field is good for is physical accidents, like broken legs.
It makes more sense to take whatever you would pay for health insurance and put it into a separate account just in case you get hurt. There are also Christian-based groups that work somewhat like insurance.
But really, why even be worried over how much health insurance costs if you have enough sense to stay away from doctors?
Unless you live in a state that requires, then it’s a state penalty
I'm one missed rent payment from taking things into my own hands.
Taking things into your own hands how? You're not talking about hurting yourself, are you?