Personal Finance

Dang, sorry about all that. "More months left at the end of my money" really hits home for me, haven't heard that expression before.

The only reason I've just been able to get by is because of friends and family, if I had any smaller of a safety net of people that care about me I would absolutely be on the streets. I'm not sure where you live, but the number of beggars has skyrocketed around me, and it's not dirty crazy homeless people that just need help in general, it's regular people out of work that are just trying to get money to pay their kids. People are selling 10$ roses on the sides of the highways to try to get by. There's no affordable housing for anyone and the best jobs available still don't pay much more than 50K a year. My boyfriend is a fully licensed mechanic and has about as much money leftover each month as a fast food worker in the '90s. Pays $1,400 in rent a month just to have a place to live (475sq ft), which is often nearly half of his income for the month.

I didn't mental ramble so much with all those complaints, I think it's just baffling in mind blowing how bad everything is and how little politicians and even companies seems to be noticing or caring about it. Citizens need money to give companies money. Eventually if people are only buying their necessities, companies won't be able to make money. It just seems so unsustainable and I don't know why more alarm bells aren't being rang.