The number of people living paycheck to paycheck is growing at the upper end of the spectrum, people making over six figures and living beyond their substantial means. Homelessness is indeed growing because of rising and rents and a housing market completely out of whack, much of it due to private investment, over-investment in tourism as a growth market and gentrification. Homelessness is rising too, though it’s been worse. While I am no fan of what passes for leadership in much of DC and how the system is broken, I give much credit to the “corrupt mob” in business and finance who don’t even have to lie about what they are doing since they have paid to have these things made legal. I don’t see anyone lying about inflation and unemployment. They don’t have to. It is being reported. …well, maybe not on you-tube. Those guys selling their stories on youtube make more off outrage and fear, so that’s what they sell. Crime rates vary by type and place. While there’s a lot of talk about crime “raging out of control” by the folks selling doom, data and anecdote always seems to note it’s somewhere else. Because infrastructure is crumbling, there are huge investments being made in that across the country as we speak. Foreign policy had been nuts since 1776. Right now, the dollar has a lot of momentum and is not at any immediate risk of losing its top spot. America is still a market anyone producing anything wants to sell to. It is something to watch, though. You “are free to deny, ignore or not give a bleep about anything” but what you see on youtube. My friends and neighbors are struggling now, but are working together to help each other instead of gleefully predicting the end of the world while surfing the internet. Try it.
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