Americans! Where is the Outrage Regarding Your Financial Situation?

The mainstream media and our politicians are not telling us the truth.

In 2016, millions of working-class Americans were so desperate for change that they tried something different, electing a self-proclaimed champion of the “forgotten man.”

What did they get?

In President Trump’s first term, the share of total income going to the wealthy grew by 17%, while more than half of Americans were making ends meet on less money in 2018 than they had in 2016. (Economic Policy Institute)

Then, in his second term, President Trump’s tariff policies delivered a total loss of 58,000 manufacturing jobs since his “Liberation Day” tariff announcements (FRED), the very jobs he promised to bring back. Overall, U.S. manufacturing employment dropped by 108,000 in 2025 alone, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (AARP), the third straight year of decline.

And yet most Americans seem willing to accept that reality because they keep sending most of the exact same bozos (just with a different hat) back to Washington D.C.

Why are they not screaming to their political “representatives” that they are as mad as hell and not willing to take it any more?

To make ends meet many American families are going into even more debt and more American families than ever are turning to government assistance.

Right now, half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, 34% say they are struggling or in outright financial crisis, and 52% worry about money every single day. (Trading Economics) Until this changes, the frustration level in this country is going to continue to grow.

10 facts about the Financial Condition of American Families

1. The top 1% now owns 31% of all national wealth (was approximately 25% in 2011) (Source: Federal Reserve, 2024)
2. Only 59% of American adults, including students and retirees, have a job (was 58% in 2011) (Source: BLS, February 2026)
3. Only 55% of American workers are currently covered by employer-provided health insurance (was 56% in 2011) (Source: KFF, 2025)
4. The median yearly wage is $51,370 (was $26,261 in 2011) but after inflation, the real purchasing power has barely moved (Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2024)
5. The average household debt is $105,056 (was $75,600 in 2011), up 39% in 15 years (Experian, 2024)
6. Since 1975, approximately 5% of American households have had income increases to match the rise in housing costs
7. Approximately 14.3% of all children in the United States were living below the poverty line in 2024 (was 21% in 2010) (Source: U.S. Census Bureau)
8. More than 42 million are living on food stamps (was 44 million in 2011), and nearly 60% of them are children or elderly (Source: USDA, FY2024)
9. Close to 21% of all men between the ages of 25 and 54 are not working for pay (was 20% in 2011). (Source: Federal Reserve, 2024)
10. For the bottom half of American families, wealth lost in the 2008 crash never fully came back, while the wealthy not only recovered but came out ahead. (Source: CBO / Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances)

Where in the World did all of the Good Jobs go?

Well, the truth is that millions of them have been shipped overseas and the politician who promised to bring them back has only made things worse.

In 2025, President Trump declared that factories would come “roaring back” because of his tariffs. Instead, manufacturing employment declined by approximately 59,000 jobs after his April tariff announcement and 2025 was the third consecutive year of negative net annual manufacturing job growth. (NCES)

But it is not just the globalization of the economy and tariffs that are hampering job growth. The federal government bureaucracy has become so oppressive that hiring workers has become so complicated and so expensive that many small business owners want to avoid it at all cost.

It is amazing that anyone is still willing to hire workers in this day and age. If you are a blue-collar worker, you should give up hope that things are going to get better. The system has failed you, and you can stop waiting for the “good jobs” to come back. They aren’t coming back.

As our economic system continues to degenerate, Americans are going to become increasingly desperate and, sadly, desperate people do desperate things. Already we are beginning to see signs that the fabric of American society is starting to be ripped to shreds.

The Hard Road

There is a limit to how many people we can actually put in prison. The reality is that the number of Americans in prison has nearly tripled since 1987. Our prisons are already dangerously overcrowded. As society falls apart, many communities will simply not be able to shove more people behind bars. Even with our prisons stuffed to the gills, many of our largest cities continue to be transformed into absolute hellholes.

What are our leaders doing about all of this? What is going to happen if the economy gets even worse? Well, they appear to be too busy fighting with each other and cheating on their wives to do much about our problems.

This country is a complete and total mess. Tens of millions of American families are flat broke and are about to slip into poverty. Meanwhile, our politicians continue to prove that they are some of the most corrupt on the planet.

However, there are many out there that still believe that America has a bright future ahead, but it is getting really hard to see why anyone could possibly believe that. While politicians gloat about our “recovery,” the poor are getting poorer, as wages still lag inflation, and economic mobility is challenging.

Other “Facts” about the Realities of Life in the United States

1. The gap between the top 0.01% and everyone else keeps widening. The top 1% now owns 31% of all national wealth, up from 23% in 1989. (Source: Federal Reserve, 2024)
2. The top 1% of Americans own nearly a third of all of the country’s wealth. The bottom half of Americans own only 2.5% of it. (Source: Federal Reserve / Institute for Policy Studies, 2024)
3. The top 1% of Americans own nearly 50% of America’s stocks and bonds. The bottom half of Americans owns only 1% of America’s stocks and bonds. (Source: Federal Reserve, 2024)
4. The wealth gap has spread dramatically over the past 35 years.
5. The disparity in pay between the average CEO and the average production worker has exploded over the past two decades.
6. Real average earnings have barely increased in 50 years, that’s half a century.
7. Savings rates have remained depressed as Americans borrow money to keep up, though they occasionally tick upward.
8. Poor Americans have little chance of rising to the upper middle class despite the myth of social mobility.
9. The wealth gap has been significantly increased by tax cuts skewed toward the wealthy.
10. Income taxes keep getting lower and lower for the rich.
11. Redistribution of wealth, via government transfers, in America is far less than other developed countries.
12. America’s income inequality is among the very worst in the developed world. The top 10% hold 79% of all household wealth in the United States, compared to just 52% on average across OECD nations. (Source: OECD Society at a Glance, 2024).
13. The income gap is not growing as severely in other countries, like France.
14. Income inequality is worst in the South, Southwest, Southeast and Northeast.
15. Normalized to 1989, the top 1% have seen their share of America’s wealth more than double. The bottom 50% have seen their portion shrink. (Source: Federal Reserve Distributional Financial Accounts)

Conclusion

Most Americans don’t understand what is happening because neither the mainstream media nor our politicians are telling them the truth. We are being told that we just need to accept a lower standard of living and most Americans seem willing to accept that reality because they keep sending most of the exact same bozos back to Washington D.C.