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Over half of Americans say health care, a weeklong vacation and a new car are unaffordable: ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll

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  2. LuvKrahft on

    Pull your own bootstraps, you over half of Americans.

    Bootstraps = rob taxpayers and make meme coins for a living

  3. Bstokes4102 on

    I think I speak for everyone when I say that shit has been hard for everyone lately. Feels like I’m getting squeezed at every opportunity and I know I have it better than most people.

  7. OhGodSoManyQuestions on

    Fox News version “Almost half of Americans fail to be either rich or obedient. Are black trans antifas to blame?”

  10. HerrMeisterRetsiem on

    This is part of the reason why vacation destinations keep introducing luxury offerings in addition to raising prices. Their research shows that due to increasing income inequality, the middle class is no longer driving the majority of vacation spending; the upper class is now. And so to remain increasingly profitable, these destinations have been shifting their target demographic accordingly.

  14. Upstairs_Ad5443 on

    The Epstein class has no issues. Thanks to the Big Beautiful (for them) Bill they can even afford to now buy more mainstream media corporations, while PBS is no more.

  15. LMGgp on

    My “vacations” are always over the weekend (bonus if a holiday) and at most are 5 days, and I go somewhere I don’t have to pay for lodging, aka family, friends, or car camping. The concept that some people go to random city, or forbid leave the country, and stay in a nice hotel is unbelievable.

    And I’m in a better position than most. Me and my spouse have good jobs with decent pay working for the state, so good healthcare too. We still nickel and dime everything (that could be a result of me growing up in abject poverty, but that’s neither here nor there). Shit fucking sucks.

  16. RiggityRyGuy on

    I said it when Biden was president, I’ll say it with Trump as president, running on and talking about how fantastic the economy is when the normal people can’t afford to do shit is the fastest way to lose people. It’s why Biden and Harris had an inherent uphill battle. 

  17. Global_Research_121 on

    Hey peasants, go stfu the rich shareholders and elite eat first. be happy for the scaps your boss gives. /s

  19. butteronions on

    Why would anyone be surprised? This is the result of Republican economic orthodoxy. This is what people voted for.

  20. anthrillist on

    Everything has been, or is becoming enshittified. We are meant to be serfs in a techno-feudalist society. “You will own nothing, and you will be happy.”

    I have been making plans to move to the mountains and live a simpler life. Soon can’t come soon enough. 

  22. FeldsparSalamander on

    My doctor was making snide remarks about insurance companies destroying healthcare last time i saw him.

  24. war_story_guy on

    You know cars are unaffordable when they don’t advertise the price in the commercials anymore. I was thinking about it yesterday but watch car commercials now and they never say how much the things cost. Only lease prices.

  26. thethrill_707 on

    I bought a small plastic tub of chewing gum yesterday for $8.00. I asked the cashier if he was joking. Turn’s out the jokes on me and everyone else in America. Trump doesn’t care about affordability, as long has HE can afford everything he wants that’s all that matters. I’m not sure why anyone thinks Trump or his cronies give a shit about anything other that making money and staying out of jail and in power.

  27. woodworkerdan on

    Notice the ‘safe’ choices businesses are choosing by going with plain colors when they remodel a building, ready go move out if things turn sour. Or shades of grey for all the cars and pickups of people buying vehicles that dealerships order, instead of custom colors. Wage stagnation is a meme for generation X onwards, as is the unaffordable pricing for housing, healthcare, and time off work.

    The American Empire is in decline. No empire in history recovered by volleyball-ing the blame game between the ultra-wealthy, neither by erratic foreign and domestic policies.

  28. aqualoon_ on

    New cars – price and interest rates have gone up. A new car payment is almost matching monthly rent and exceeds it in some cases.

    Not even mentioning vacation because I haven’t had one in my entire adult life of being in the work force. I take a day or two off, make it a long weekend and that’s my vacation. Gotta save those days for if/when I get sick and need time off.

  29. Mattractive on

    When GoFundMe is the largest healthcare provider in America, things have been bad for a long time.

    Nobody seems interested in lifting up 90% of America. Over half of Americans don’t have $500 in savings, live paycheck to paycheck, and see compounded rising costs as a death sentence. My previous job had a major explosion on a high voltage site and a tech was hospitalized, but the company started a GoFundMe to pay for his on-the-job accident because insurance wouldn’t cover everything.

    That’s where we are. That’s how badly broken our system is.

  30. Manmetbaard on

    The US can laugh at Europe but at least we have a functioning health care system (not perfect but fuctioning) and labour laws that make sure the Epstein class cannot ruthlessly exploit people like their slaves and make them work until they are used up. Who cares about cars when public transport functions 

  31. Ryclea on

    The scale of capitalism has gotten too grand. There is no connection between work and wealth. People working for $40k per year can’t compete with people collecting a million dollars a day on interest.

  33. RightIzWrong on

    I’m well educated and a decent paying job, wife, 2 kids. Modest lifestyle, no extravagances. Lost my meager savings during a 3-month job search. Scraping by month to month. Winter break plans this year was: spend 1 day in the city 45 mins from us. My retirement plan is a bullet to the head once I’m unable to work anymore. My kids are super smart and I have exactly $0 to put toward their college tuition when they get there. Life is bleak, I’m falling into depression, and there is no relief in sight.

  35. Vivid_Dot2869 on

    And probably over a third of them would lose their job if they got sick, took a vacation, or their ol’ rust-bucket broke down.

  36. KopOut on

    Well then it’s definitely a good thing the country gave complete control to the party that is laser focused on tax cuts for the mega rich.

  37. zoopz on

    Is this true though? And… Are you used to most people being able to buy a new car out of pocket?

    And.. why still vote republican then?

    I want to say I dont understand any of it, but I see dutch voters going against their own interests as well. All they care about is hating minorities.

  38. art-man_2018 on

    For some of us a *weekend* off isn’t affordable. Some of us have to work and extra job and even a dinner/drinks out is un-doable.

  39. Silent_Telephone864 on

    WHY ARE YOU NOT TALKING ABOUT THE DOW BEING OVER 50,000 DOLLARS? Did anyone else notice they edited out when that idiot said “dollars”, she tried to stop herself part way through the word

  41. winterbird on

    For some of us, that’s been unaffordable all along. And now bare basics like food and rent are unaffordable.

  42. KellerMB on

    Billionaires: It’s a good start, but 56% [of respondents in the article considered healthcare unaffordable] is still a failing grade. We’re shooting for 90% by the end of this term.

    74% unable to take a vacation is at least a passing grade.

  46. copingcabana on

    Almost as if the country is being run by a slumlord whose favorite hobbies are bankruptcy and groping underage girls.

  47. LowConstant3938 on

    Welcome to late stage unbridled capitalism. America was always destined to end up this way

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