When they keep saying "the economy is getting worse" do they mean that people can't

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afford to buy hummers...? and coach bags and zillions of video games for their fat kids and mcmansions they can't afford and 3 vacations a year and ugg boots for the whole family or do they mean that people like me who live a modest life are going to be too poor to eat? I really don't get it. I mean I see that New Yorkers, and Californians, and more, live by $1000.00 dinners, and $400.00 blouses, and weekends in Vegas. Their kids don't work but wear designer clothes and have cars. 12 year old gets manicures. I eat cereal for breakfast, work, take my kid to school, make dinner, watch a little cable t.v., play on the computer and go to bed. WHAT IS GOING ON? Is it that the new wave of uneducated 40 hour a weekers who live like Elizabeth Taylor are going to have to live like their parents did? Or am I going to go hungry? WHat does all of this mean?
 
That means that even in this economy, there still are rich people and there are also poor people! As long as you can still keep your job, make dinner, afford a little cable tv, afford internet and have a bed to sleep on, you are fine! I can't even afford cable tv.
 
the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, people lose their jobs stocks crash, more people live on the streets, the government raises taxes, etc
 
For right now, it means as you say that kids who had been living like Elizabeth Taylor are now going to have to live a little more like you.

But it is heading toward the point where people like you are going to have to live a little closer to eating like my parents did. Beans and boloney (not bologna, the cheap 99 cent stuff where the company doesn't even bother to spell it correctly) on one slice of wheat bread. God help you if you take a second slice and your mother finds out.



You, and they, will do as all humans do; as all living things do. If it gets to that point you will learn to subsist on potatoes and beans for a while, but you will do what it takes to survive. We all will. We might not like it, and in fact I'm pretty sure we won't, but we'll do it.
 
If even one 12 year old can't get a manicure, we should consider that a national tragedy... and a single, solitary tear will roll down Lincoln's face at Mount Rushmore.

Actually, to be honest with you, I agree with you, this culture's standards for what constitutes an acceptable life are increasingly bizarre.
 
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