I watch probably an hour each week of the finance wiz....Dave Ramsey.
This week, he got onto a statistical issue...saying America is broke. Approximately 78-percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
Homes, cars, trips....drowning in debt.
I kinda felt this way the first four years of Air Force time....paycheck-to-paycheck. Along about the 5th/6th year....I started to get ahead.
When I worked in the Pentagon (15 years ago)....there was a local couple interviewed....both husband and wife worked. One was earning in the $140k range....the other was in the $225k range. They were a paycheck-to-paycheck couple.....had been for more than five years, and weren't expecting much to improve their situation.
For some reason....I just see this reality as being pretty close to the 1930s, and the hobo-generation.
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