At least 20 million households — or about 1 in 6 American homes — are behind on their power bills as soaring electricity prices spark what is said to be the worst-ever crisis in late utility payments, according to Bloomberg, citing data from the National Energy Assistance Directors Association (Neada).
Neada said electricity prices had increased significantly since 2020 after a decade of stagnation. The steep rise has resulted in billions of dollars in overdue power bills.
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This article is not about overdue electric bills as this is just one of many signs of a failed economy operating under an illegal government. The people who still work and want a better future for their children can barely pay for food and gas. The same story has been written for cell phone bills. People are relying on credit cards to make up the deficit in their monthly budget but this is a stop gap measure with bad consequences.
Where does this leave people who want to do the right thing and just be left alone?
David DeGerolamo
If you pay monthly, you can get a cell phone for $15.00+tax. People pay 3 or more times that. They also spend money on things that they do not need. I am not saying whole problem is people and budgeting, I am saying it is part of the the problem.
If people where to garden, how much would they save? If they stopped purchasing junk food and cooked at home? Did not purchase that outrageously over priced new vehicle? Do you need more than one phone? Do you need more than one PC? Do you really need to go on vacation? Do you really need wear Levis (Rural King has jeans for $9.99 per pair). You all get the point. We as Americans spend way too much money on things that we do not need. This spending feeds the beast that will devour us later.
We should trust in God to provide for us. He will show you what you need and give it too you. Instead we will have a tsunami of looter that think they are owed something and will be willing to take it or have someone else take it.
10 dollar jeans? Damn ya cheap ass. A really good, long lasting pair of jeans are 50 or less. For 80 I can get the top quality denim that feels sooo good and lasts forever. And Levis?? Hahahahaha! Levis….Haven’t bought or owned a pair of that woke trash companies stuff in so long I can’t remember.
I’m from the school of work hard, buy the best, and take care of it. 2 years so far in some Thorogood work boots @ $250 that still look new after a cleaning. They will go 2 more for sure. 3 years in work jeans I paid $80 for. They still look and feel great. 20k on a 2011 f250 crew cab long bed 4x4. Still driving it and it’s paid for. Less than 150k on it. Bought an 5k wright stander hydro lawn mower 16 years ago. I’m still making money with that machine every week.
Cheap stuff is exactly that.
I have a pair of Thorogood boots that the soles wore out in less than a year. Contacted them about it and they have yet failed to reply. The best long lasting boots I have ever had were a pair of jungle boots. Payed $25 for them. I only wear boots. I have had Thorogood, Red Wings, Irish Setter, Danner, Ariat, some Walmart boots and others I cannot remember. There are no boots that you work in that look like new after a few miles. The only boots I have where the soles were still decent after a year of wearing them where the jungle boots.
For $80, I can have 8 pair of jeans and they will last more than 2 years. I had jobs were it did not matter what jeans you had, they had holes in them in less than 6 months. But that is when I worked for a living. If I do not do work in them, they will look good a year in. So I would still have 8 years of good looking jeans for the same price.
So now to my point. You keep your spending within your means. A vast majority of Americans so not. They think they need the best and go into debt just to say they have they think is the best. Sooner or later they pay for their debt with slavery.
Sportsman guide offer some of the boots i believe you are speaking of. The boots i used to be able to get for 25.00 (army surplus now run $35.00 -- 80.00. Of course they all seem to come from overseas, yet they hold up well.
Yeah, those are the ones. I bought mine at a local army navy store when I did not make much money. I am rough on footwear and they held up very well for me. The only other pair of boots that I would brag about are a pair of Irish Setters. The soles flop on them now and they had some repairs done to them, but they are still fairly comfortable and I hate to have to throw them out. They have a lot of miles on them.
And the eviction rate is going up. Hard times are coming.
These are more of the results of vain voting, idolatrous repetition and cult-like participation in a politics that’s designed to remove power from the people. As is obvious, and sadly, it will take the destruction of America for there to be real attempts at building a sense of cohesive participation among people, that encompasses sound economics (trade and barter, and other organic systems related to earning which could be material wealth or land, etc., and the generating of wealth-no longer relegated to those who control the means of production), rather than menial work, doled out by those who largely demand non-questioning obeisance, while paying a fraction of what was actually earned by the laborers. The church system (ritualistic poverty) is very much a part of the take down of America; the encouraging and intimidation of congregations to be mass Covid-19 vaccinated, also with mobile vans coming to inoculate those in attendance. It’s not only an issue of an illegal government, but the inept social systems (often perpetuating chronic situations) and the futile structure across the domestic front that’s premised on hyperindividualism and economic stratification. This will only be increasingly devolutionary to the people and further enrich the elites, leading to factions of people who will perhaps have misdirected anger as the approaching civil war goes hot.