Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "Growing Up Poor In America (full documentary) | FRONTLINE" video.

  1. Half the nation is. And just 10% above the half are in scarcity of becoming the other half at a moment. The next 30% aren't in a safe place either, little by little they fade into oblivion as their jobs are outsourced or simply can't make a profit anymore and are abandoned. And businesses now are in double the debt of 2008. The debt trap is only been made extreme.
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  2. I have watched it happen all through 2005 to present. Always getting worse. Hence why I will probably not bother making a family. I will not have children so sweat shop cartel dealers can use them for serf labor. They will have no labor, they will have one to buy their stuff, they will have to do their own labor.
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  3. I grew up in a poor neighborhood because my parents didn't want like the idea of wasting money on a house... I kind of regret that they didn't, because solid property at least would mean they're not at risk of space rent in a trailer court suddenly becoming a new housing or apartment development and being forced to move. My parents were in a position they could have afforded a house back in the late 90's and would have had it paid off by now... probably by 2010. And am Lucky my dad had two pensions from place he worked at for 35 years; with social security and those pensions and my mom now in retirement age social security they make a decent amount. The backwards thinking though is now he's saving... for what? Who knows. I keep telling him to sell their double wide and buy a house with a big down payment. It effects me in the sense that I save and budget. But with cost of living, rental prices and housing prices ever going higher it feels insufficient... on this trajectory that they recently raised my rent for a new 1 year lease $80 in June... on the brink of a great depression and this pandemic, these apartment units will be empty and most of us all will be living in our cars or RV's or tents. I work more than 40 hours a week and have side gigs. Unlike some people, largely because I have no children I have some savings and investments, but not the ideal amount for retirement... no pensions anymore means life elderly is going to be a disaster for our generations. Already is for many of the boomers and some of the Xrs starting to face it.
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  4.  @taybee4653  No, but being a brother and an uncle can be father like. Probably the only way I will ever experience fatherhood. I refuse at present and for the foreseeable future to ever have children. I have plenty of nephews and brothers and sisters. And my nephews that have grown to adulthood also strongly consider never having children.
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  5. Our movie and other media corporations are propaganda outlets many despots would kill to have.
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