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In reply to the discussion: Sitting in a restaurant today I realized how much trouble we are in for [View all]hunter
(38,317 posts)... and you don't notice the homeless people in the streets.
Maybe you've never experienced a COBRA running out, long term unemployment, etc., etc., etc.
Maybe you're not stuck in a minimum wage job, living in a dangerous neighborhood, and taking the bus to work...
Or maybe, if you are stuck in low paying work that's grinding you down, maybe you think you'll be winning some sort of career lottery and joining the upper classes. If so, sorry to say, the odds are it won't happen.
The U.S.A. is less like the "first world" nations of Canada or Western Europe, and more like the other "developing" nations of the Americas than we care to imagine. There are major divisions between the wealthy class of the U.S.A. and those who are struggling to stay afloat, and it's getting worse. The rich are getting richer and everyone else is falling behind. The wealthy have cut us loose from the engines of prosperity and more and more of us are becoming wage slaves.