Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,
Have you ever had a day when your children were crying due to hunger but the cupboards were completely bare and your bank account was empty?
If you haven’t, you should consider yourself to be extremely blessed, because this is what real life feels like for millions upon millions of Americans in 2018.
As you will see below, a third of all Americans cannot even afford “the basics” each month, and 13 million households are officially considered to be “food insecure”. In other words, they don’t have enough to eat. Many parents out there choose to skip a meal (or two) each day just so that their kids can have full stomachs. But sometimes the money runs out completely, and that is when it gets really tough.
In recent years, the wealthy have been doing quite well, and many of them have very little sympathy for the struggles of the poor.
But the cold, hard reality of the matter is that the gap between the wealthy and the poor is now the largest that it has been since the 1920s, and approximately one-third of the entire nation cannot even afford the basics each month…
Consider the following statistics.
The average American can’t scrape together $500 for an emergency.
A third of Americans can’t afford food, shelter, and healthcare.
Healthcare for a family now costs $28k — about half of median income, which is $60k.
Those are very sobering numbers, and you won’t often hear them repeated by the mainstream media.
For a moment, I would like you to consider three questions…
-Have you ever avoided taking a family member to the hospital because you were afraid of what the bill might look like?
-Have you ever turned off your phone because you were sick and tired of getting calls from bill collectors?
-Have you ever laid awake at night with a gnawing feeling in the pit of your stomach because you didn’t know how you were going to pay the bills at the end of the month?
If so, you certainly have a lot of company. The truth is that most American families are deeply struggling, and those that are “doing well” make up only a very small percentage of the overall population.
Not too long ago, CNN profiled a two-year-old boy named Ryder Pfaffly and the rest of his household. Sadly, they are one of the 13.1 million households in America that do not have enough food to eat…
Ryder’s family represents America’s 13.1 million households with children that often go without food: “food-insecure households.”
“Food is a struggle at times,” said Ryder’s mom, Kelly Ann Pfaffly, who also is raising a newborn boy.
Pfaffly, 23, and her 24-year-old husband, Justin, have been married five years. They — along with Ryder, his 7-year-old sister and his infant brother — all live in a small room at the hotel. “We’ve been struggling for quite sometime now,” she said. “But we always find a way to make it.”
Of course Ryder and his family are far from alone. At this point, more than half of all U.S. households with children receive assistance from the government each month. The middle class is steadily eroding, and the ranks of the “working poor” have been growing rapidly.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-20/why-does-america-have-13-million-households-dont-have-enough-food-eat?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29
Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.
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