Why You Feel Broke While They Tell You the Economy is Strong

Why You Feel Broke While They Tell You the Economy is Strong

You're not crazy. Your bank account isn't lying to you.

For years, we've been hearing two completely different stories. The first, from the cable news channels and the White House, is that the economy is "chugging along." The second story is the one you see every time you buy groceries, pay rent, or look at your credit card statement.

So, what the hell is actually keeping this thing afloat? Why hasn't the crash we've all been bracing for actually happened? The answer is simple and infuriating: the economy has crashed, but the pain is being felt exclusively by the bottom 90% of the country.

Here's the breakdown of the heist.

The Illusion of Prosperity: The Rich Are Fine, So the "Economy" Is Fine

The headline numbers they flash on TV—the S&P 500, the Dow Jones—are completely disconnected from your reality. Why? Because the top 10% of Americans own nearly 90% of the stock market. For them, the economy is booming. Their portfolios are doing great.

The system is now designed to measure the financial health of the yacht club and pretend it reflects the entire country. The rest of us are just the engine room, shoveling our debt and stagnant wages into the furnace to keep their party going.

The Engine of Debt: The Real Fuel for the Fire

Remember all that "revenge spending" money from the COVID era? It's long gone. The reason people are STILL buying overpriced cars and paying insane rents isn't because they have savings. It's because they're being forced to finance their survival.

American credit card debt has exploded past $1.2 trillion. We're not "spending"; we're borrowing. We're paying for today's groceries with tomorrow's wages, all while interest rates make that debt impossible to climb out of. The economy isn't chugging along on prosperity; it's running on the fumes of our collective debt.

Corporate Greed: The Reign of Terror Continues

Companies will only lower prices when they start hurting. And right now, they're not hurting. They're celebrating.

They used the excuse of "inflation" and "supply chains" to jack up prices to obscene levels, and they quickly realized that as long as people were desperate enough to pay, they never had to bring them back down. Car companies, landlords, grocery chains—they're not victims of inflation; they are the perpetrators of it. It's called greedflation.

They are reaping record profits by squeezing you for every last dime, all while telling you it's for your own good.

The System is Rigged: The Final Piece of the Puzzle

And the final insult? While all of this is happening, the administration is ensuring the tax burden falls on you. They maintain massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, while the small tax breaks for working families expire and taxes on lower earners effectively go up.

They are actively transferring wealth from your pocket to their donors' portfolios. It's not a bug in the system; it's the entire point.

So no, you're not imagining it. The crash is here. It's just happening in slow motion, inside our homes and our bank accounts, not on Wall Street. They've figured out how to keep the party going for themselves by making the rest of us pay for it. The first step to fighting back is to stop believing their story and to start calling this what it is: a heist.

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