The 7-Percent People

 There was a poll done, and the question regarded.....are you better off or worse off, or just about average....on your situation today.

Just 7-percent of people said they (in America) were better off today.  That's its. 

Thirty-three percent said they were worse off today.

This was a CBS poll, so I don't have any reason to think it was corrupted.

If you'd asked me personally....I wouldn't use the word 'better-off' or 'worse-off'.  I'd just say my frustration level is higher than at any point of the past forty years.  If you asked how many different things I'm frustrated on....it'd go way higher than a hundred.

I gazed at the 7-percent of people who said they were better off.  

Who makes up this group?  

I would guess a quarter of the group are 90 years old or older.....having lived through the 1930s depression era, and having the ability to eat ice cream every day (cheap ice cream) makes this era great.

Another quarter are probably meth-opioid-crack users, and as long as they have enough cash to pay for their habit....things are fine.

Another quarter are probably mentally unbalanced people (paranoid schizophrenic's) and they imagine themselves in the middle of a circus-atmosphere, dining with Jesus, or drinking pure tap water but believe it has the taste of a fine Kentucky whisky.  

Then the final quarter....these are people who smoke some fine and extra strong cannabis (weed) and they seem to grin even when they've stopped to tank up the car, or while chatting with the Piggly Wiggly bag-kid.  These are the same people who binge-watch past episodes of Adam-12, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres.  

So I agree....these people exist, but in terms of their opinion mattering....I'd give it a zero.