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.
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.