America's Economy Looks Strong… So Why Are Families Still Struggling?

[00:00:00]Look at these numbers now. That known number has skyrocketed. Look at this.

[00:00:05]66% of Americans now say that groceries are in fact not affordable.

[00:00:10]>> That our parents and grandparents grew up in the best economy ever.

[00:00:13]>> I think women getting forced into the workforce was something where the government pushed it so we're feminist.

[00:00:18]I would love to be a homemaker and a wife, but I can't do that because the way the economy is set up is I'm forced to work. America genuinely looked like a third world country and it's about time that we had that conversation. $1,000 a month income [music] is not enough to support me as a single male in the United States.

[00:00:33]>> Affordability is the battle that actually matters right now because while we're all out here just trying to afford gas, groceries, life nowadays, everything costs so much that it is very hard to sustain.

[00:00:44]>> America has a struggle kink. Do you feel better about yourself looking at unhoused people on the street? [music] >> The economy is being called strong. But if that's true, so why millions of American are struggling to put food on the table or pay bill, not even rent?

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[00:01:11]>> I didn't realize so many women were struggling financially and solid. The comments on my last video broke my heart because so many women said that they feel like they cannot ask anyone for help. So many women said they're carrying everybody and everything alone.

[00:01:24]They're paying their bills, trying to keep it together. And nobody knows that they're struggling. And I felt that.

[00:01:30]Sis, if that's you, you are not alone.

[00:01:32]But we have to stop normalizing survival mode. Follow me for real conversations about healing, financial freedom, and rebuilding your life one step at a time.

[00:01:39]>> America has a struggle, kink. Do you feel better about yourself looking at unhoused people on the street? Or what about unhoused people living in their car? Or what about someone trying to raise a family in a decrepit apartment?

[00:01:51]I don't. It's a vivid reminder that our country has failed its most vulnerable people. We should make it easier to get jobs. And when you get that job, that job should pay a living wage. Why does the floor in this country have to be poverty? The people who keep America running are the people who are struggling the most. Instead of romanticizing struggle, we should be fighting to make it obsolete.

[00:02:11]>> How do I explain to my mom that my $5,000 a month income [music] is not enough to support me as a single male in the United States? the headache that comes with trying to get her to understand that rent is not $600 anymore. It's almost too grand. And that's for a basic one-bedroom apartment that's not in the hood. I'm not splurging my money. Buying groceries is part of my budgeting. Now, buying groceries efficiently is part of my budgeting. I have a full-time job.

[00:02:41]Here's the worst part. I told her I'm trying to get a new job. She tells me, "Well, have you thought about like, you know, going down to the people's office and, you know, handing them your resume?"

[00:02:52]Mom, handing them my I can't even get to the assistant without getting through a receptionist without getting through their security in the front. Mom, that's not a thing anymore. I now use Sprout where I auto apply using AI to directly to company websites. And even that has been a struggle. Luckily for me, that method has actually been proven to work.

[00:03:14]But if it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have landed any of these jobs. Mom, 5K a month is not money anymore.

[00:03:20]>> I always hear people complaining about the economy. And I was about to say, well, if the economy is so bad, then why you always out eating, going shopping?

[00:03:28]Like, why y'all always out doing stuff that y'all claim y'all don't have the money for? But now I realize with myself, like, every Friday I go to Chipotle because it's a little reward to myself. I don't care. Chipotle going to see me every single Friday and the least I could do for myself. I mean, I can't go to Bora Bora. So, baby, I'm going to go to Chipotle. Oh well, >> hard take. I think mama should be with their kids. I think women getting forced into the workforce was something where the government pushed it. So, we're feminists and now we can get taxed double in a household. If you really think about it from a government standpoint, it makes a lot of sense because we have the mom working, we can tax all her income. We have the dad working, we can tax all of his income.

[00:04:04]And then guess what? The beautiful little babies get tossed into public school and they get to be raised for 12, 13 years in a public institution where our taxes are paying for them to be raising our kids.

[00:04:16]>> If you think about it from that perspective, you're like, "Wow, the government's freaking smart." If you are tired of working, and you want to be home with your babies, and you want to homeschool like we do, and you want to travel like we do, and you want to live a life of freedom like you're meant to, and you want to do something you're passionate about. I would love to be a stay-at-home mom. I would love to be a homemaker and a wife, but I can't do that because the way the economy is set up is I'm forced to work. I'm forced to get an education, a higher education, a college degree in order to make enough money that I can be financially independent and afford my own home or my own rent or my own gas or my own groceries, my own insurance. It's extremely difficult to do that and it's very isolating as a woman. Most women were married by the age of 21 up until the 1970s. I would go back to the 1950s in a second just so I wouldn't have to deal with this [ __ ] You're talking about a traditional nuclear family where the woman doesn't work in a married household with kids.

[00:05:05]>> And it was better for women mental health-wise long-term to be able to go into that long-term committed relationship and have the established family instead of being [music] forced to slave away for a corporation that doesn't like you, doesn't care about you, makes you sit under fluorescent lights for 8 n 10 hours a day. You get a lunch break, you get health insurance, but do you have somebody who loves you staring at you every day like your child? No. It's horrible.

[00:05:29]Uh, it's definitely not just your family. Like, I mean, a lot of families I know are all having the same problem.

[00:05:35]And it's not that, you know, we're broke, you know, anything like that, you know? I mean, between my husband and I, it's three jobs. He has two jobs and I have my business. So, it's it's not that. It's just it like our grocery bills almost doubled. And yes, we can still buy food and we're very blessed by that. [music] And we have a garden. We grow as much as we can and I make everything from scratch, from jelly to bread to salad dressings and everything in between to save money. But it's just crazy [music] and so many families are feeling this and I don't feel like it's talked about enough. And I don't know if it's people don't want to admit it or what, but it's just awful. That's one of the reasons I started putting out cooking videos to hopefully help some families kind of ease it up a little bit. But it is everyone. and it's awful. Society is designed to keep parents in survival mode. Or at least it feels like it's been this way since 2020, but probably a lot longer than that. In my opinion, of course, as somebody speaking from the United States. Society keeps parents struggling just enough so that they are functional, but they are forever stuck in survival mode. And how do they keep parents struggling? By making it hard to afford life while we are raising life.

[00:06:52]Maybe they don't want us to break these generational curses. It is so much harder to break the cycle when you are in a constant state of stress. You are in survival mode. When you are living your days on autopilot, just trying to make it through one struggle after another while you were raising kids. We can't properly raise emotionally healthy kids when we are in survival mode. We're fighting battles from past generations on top of struggling just to live. And they know that. They know what they're doing. keep us stuck here struggling just to get our basic needs met, knowing we can't be our best selves in survival mode, making it so hard to raise kids in these conditions. Even though so many of us may be breaking so many generational curses while we are in survival mode, it's not supposed to be like this.

[00:07:36]Parents deserve healthy environments, too. Affordability is the battle that actually matters right now. Because while we're all out here just trying to afford gas, groceries, life, global conflicts are literally driving up our prices overnight. Gas, as many of you know, is already pushing $4 a gallon again. And it's not random. It's because we still rely on oil from unstable parts of the world. And what makes no sense to me is we're actually blocking clean energy here at home. Why are we making the cheaper, more stable option harder to build? If we had more clean energy in the US, these conflicts wouldn't hit our wallets this hard. I mean, at the end of the day, this isn't political. It's practical. The more energy we can produce here at home, the more affordable life becomes for all of us.

[00:08:08]>> So, I just heard that they supposed to be cutting off millions of people from getting benefits. This is why I told y'all to stay ahead of the game. And I know it's not easy nowadays. Everything costs so much that it is very hard to sustain and to even catch up. And I know there's people out there saying, "Well, you should never have had all them kids if you couldn't support all of them."

[00:08:27]Baby, at one point in time, we were all able to take care of all of our kids and our needs. The cost of living was not that high. Baby, back then, I was able to support my family off the paycheck that I was making. $14 an hour was enough money to support a whole entire family. $14 an hour is now the the new minimum wage. It ain't even a new minimum wage. That's that's underneath minimum wage. I am literally heartbroken because there are families out there that's not going to be able to support nor feed their family nor be able to pay for their medical bills for their kids that's sick. And for them to think that this is okay. I am very, very, very upset and hurt by this. Y'all don't even understand. I'm just thinking about the poor babies that get some type of disease that need their medication, but their parents can't afford to give them their medication. I'm just thinking about that baby that's going to go to bed hungry at night because their parents are not able to buy any food.

[00:09:16]Y'all don't understand how this is going to affect the world. We're damn near going to be in the playing the hunger games at this point. And these people don't care. They're going to be eating tonight. Whatever medication they need, baby, they're going to be able to get it. All I'm saying is y'all need to start having God in your life. I'm telling y'all, the days and times that we're living in, nobody cares about the next person. And it's sad to say this, but we all knew that this was coming.

[00:09:39]That's why I said, "Hey, y'all got to really get on your agame." Y'all really got to start preparing for this new war that we're living in. And y'all got to stop acting so blinded as if it does not exist or that it was never going to happen. I heard people say, "Hey, well, just allow them. They getting these government assistance. Let them. If they don't want to work, let them." I told y'all, I said this already.

[00:09:59]>> Let's start with our baseline. How are Americans feeling about that? About affordability, about paying for groceries.

[00:10:05]>> Yeah. You know, President Trump says one thing. And the American people feel something very very different on the simple question. Are groceries affordable? Take a look at this. Think groceries are affordable. No. And yes.

[00:10:16]Back in February, the majority of Americans said yes. Then of course the Iran war began right in late February.

[00:10:22]Look at these numbers now. That no NUMBER HAS SKYROCKETED. LOOK at this.

[00:10:27]66% of Americans now say that groceries are in fact not affordable.

[00:10:33]Unaffordable. Look at that yes number plummeting down into the ground from 54% to 33%. So Donald Trump says something, but the American people feel that their reality is far different from what the president is touting.

[00:10:46]>> Yeah. And which segment of the American people are getting hit the hardest?

[00:10:49]>> Yeah. Okay. Which segment of the American people are getting hit the hardest? Kin, great question. And you know, if we talk about this, when we're talking about the Donald Trump base, we're talking about workingclass voters, right? So take a look here. Okay, income under 50,000 on grocery affordability.

[00:11:03]And keep in mind that this Donald Trump won this group won this group back in 2024 put up a historically strong performance for Republican candidate.

[00:11:12]But look at these numbers now. Just 16% of those with househo household incomes under 50,000 think that groceries are affordable. The lion share 82%. You rarely ever see 82% of any group agreeing on anything. But what you see here is that those working-class folks, those who have incomes, household incomes under 50,000, the lion share, more than four and five, say that groceries are unaffordable at this point.

[00:11:37]>> Parts of America genuinely look like a third world country. And it's about time that we have that conversation. If you import the third world, you get the third world. Yeah, we might have been a melting pot at one point, but if the ingredients you're bringing in don't melt, well then guess what? You just have a completely ruined pot of whatever, right? Maybe the real reason we're more third world now is because the wealth disparity between the rich and the poor has increased so greatly.

[00:11:58]And guess what happens? There's going to be more poor people or more homeless people. When there's more homeless people, they're going to be on the streets. When more people are on the streets, guess what happens? It looks more like a third world country because people can't afford to pay their bills.

[00:12:10]And when you can't afford to pay your bills, guess what you're going to do?

[00:12:14]You're going to start stealing. You're going to be on the street. You're going to do things you need to do to survive because it's a life ordeath scenario.

[00:12:20]Maybe if we made it so these people could actually have housing and it could afford food, it wouldn't be this way.

[00:12:25]Maybe if we actually spent money increasing our infrastructure instead of just on data centers and giving it to the rich people and continuing tax breaks for all these people, maybe it would look less like the third world.

[00:12:35]Maybe if we did all these things, we could make actually America look.

[00:12:38]>> One thing I always think about and it kind of makes me mad is that our parents and grandparents grew up in the best economy ever. And I'm not going to say they had it easy, you know, especially us. But just imagine that we had their economy now. Let's just take the housing market in 2000. The average house if they would have bought a house in the year 2000 was between $100 and $200,000.

[00:12:57]And interest rates back then was as low as 2%. Now, let's take the year 2025.

[00:13:03]The average house is anywhere between 300 and $500,000.

[00:13:08]And you have to be lucky, and I'm being very generous with this, to get an interest rate of 4%. People are genuinely signing off on interest rates of 7%. Now, not only has the cost of housing doubled, the interest rates have more than doubled. They have so much equity built in their houses because they bought a $150,000 house in the year 2000, and it's worth $450,000 now in the year 2026. So, if you're ever wondering why your parents could afford that house, those cars, and raised multiple children, it's because everything was cheaper back then. The houses, the cars, cars were $20,000 brand new. So, it's not because we're buying coffee every day that we feel like we're broke. It's because the houses that our parents bought for $100,000 are now $300,000 more. Don't let them gaslight you because it's not you. It's this dang economy. But let me know what you guys think. I'll see you in the next one.

[00:13:55]Peace.

[00:13:56]>> When I saw this stat today, I had to research it to see if it's true and it is. And I was like, since when is the American taxpayer on the hook to fund the whole world? I mean, we fund 91% of the world. We give money to 177 countries. And I guarantee you if you ask every taxpayer, hey, are you okay with um being taxed out the wazoo and then us turning around and giving your money to other countries? They would say absolutely not. So how the have we gotten here? Seriously, who up in Washington makes this decision? Because alls I see right now is people cannot afford to buy houses because everything's so expensive. People are homeless. Families are working two to three jobs just to survive. People can't pay down their debt because they're just they don't have any extra income because they're taxed so much. Like, help me help make it make sense because it doesn't make sense. I want to know who in Washington is responsible for this at this point. We need a revolt. We need a revival. I don't know how we do it, what we do, but we can't. This can't sustain, guys. It just can't.

[00:15:04]>> This economy is so greedy. America's so greedy. These business people are so greedy. Billionaires are greedy. People are just greedy. It It's just greedy to see all of the stuff that we are literally going through right now. It's so greedy.

[00:15:24]Like you mean to tell me that people we live in a place that was given to us by someone else not ours that we didn't create but we took claim over it.

[00:15:39]We start putting taking the ideas that was given to us by someone else that was planted in our brain to create something that will eventually benefit others because things that God gives us doesn't just benefit ourselves it benefits others. The person that created the plane, God knew that we needed planes.

[00:15:56]God knew we needed trains. God knew we needed cars. God knew we needed food.

[00:15:59]God knew we needed water. God knew we needed clothes. God knew we needed electricity. God knew we needed fire.

[00:16:04]God knew everything. So the ideas of the person that created was given to them by somebody else, but then they found a way to tax it at a price to it when it was given to them priceless. Okay. So now we're in this economy and we're in this world where everything we have to use or get to it cost.

[00:16:27]But then they went and changed the job market up because they don't want to give all of us jobs. They knew this back in slavery days. They knew this in slavery days. They didn't want us to work. They wanted us to work for them.

[00:16:38]They wanted us to be able to be in control of something. So now we're in an economy where people are literally struggling to make ends meet. We have been through so many different things that have came because people decided to do that, decided to start wars, decided to put out these diseases, decided to just do things that will hurt us. Desc from the beginning, but put stuff in our food now that will affect our living moving forward. Okay, come come with me.

[00:17:08]But now we're in an economy in which is causing us to not know where we're going to be laying our heads at in the next few days. Not knowing how we're going to pay our bills, not knowing what's happening next, giving us anxiety and causing stress in the body and which eventually causes diseases and which we all know, but also steering us away from our faith. Make it make sense.

[00:17:31]So when I sit here and say that people are greedy, it is out of this world for you to be okay with the amount of money you possibly have compared to others.

[00:17:39]and be okay that there are people out here hungry with no place to sleep with no heat with no AC, no air, no nothing that are literally struggling to make ends meet. And then you have the nerve to repossess cars in which if you take the car, you're not using it. You're not using it. It's going into a field with a whole bunch of other cars. But you want to repossess cars in which people are trying to use as places for them to sleep.

[00:18:06]The greed is not is it's is giving delusional. It's giving sinister. It's giving corrupt but it's also giving the truth is being revealed.

[00:18:20]The world is being led by sin. It's being led by evil. There's no way you can say one nation under God and you guys are not doing that cuz God would never ordain the things that this is happening right now. Now, is this video going to get posted? Is this video going to be seen by the people that needs to be seen? I don't know. Because they control everything we do. They control the system. They control the way this stuff starts to push out.

[00:18:44]They control how we make money. They control how we sleep, how we eat, how we take care of our kids. They control how we think.

[00:18:53]And [clears throat] as a as a millennial, I don't even know what I am.

[00:18:55]Jenzy Jen, I don't know. Millennial. We gonna say that, baby. I'm sitting back and thinking about everything I've been through in the past few years. And I literally sit back and say, "I didn't know God, but the way I know God now, what's happening right now, karma gonna come right back."

[00:19:15]And we ain't even going to say karma because God is literally watching all of his people right now.

[00:19:21]And the harder times are getting, the truth is being shown by the people who aren't giving into God's will.

[00:19:32]So, as we sit back and I'm just sitting here like, who knows how this can go.

[00:19:35]This can either go good or it can go bad. I'm seeing friends getting stressed. I'm seeing people killing themselves. I'm seeing people killing others. It's just getting wild.

[00:19:45]But all of this to say, the world is greedy.

[00:19:50]Greedy and yet ungrateful because we're no longer coming together as one to make sure that we survive on this world.

[00:19:56]Everybody's out for themselves.

[00:20:00]Families will really watch you struggle and they will never not once volunteer their [ __ ] services until the deed is done.

[00:20:17]They always tend to wait till they see other people helping you and then they want to swoop in at the last minute and try to make it seem like they did so much after they literally sat there and watched you [ __ ] struggle. Like I never understood this [ __ ] It's so weird to me. Like I've never understood it. Why are families breaking more than ever right now? Families where love is supposed to start and continue to grow.

[00:20:49]But what we're seeing now more than ever at an alarming rate is that this is no longer being treated that way. Families are being pulled apart, dismissed, or cut off. And it's happening in a way that's being normalized. And it's being pushed like it's healthy. And instead of family being the place where people learn how to work through conflict, repair and discomfort, there's instead a growing push to step away and replace those bonds with validation from outside sources, from outside influence, from the internet, from strangers, from spaces that feel supportive but don't actually replace what family provides, which is a foundation of love. Family was never about being perfect. It was about being the foundation that love grows from, even when things are hard.

[00:21:26]And when that foundation is weakened or removed, people don't suddenly become healthier or more whole, they just end up searching constantly for that sense of love and belonging everywhere else.

[00:21:36]And you can see the consequences of all of that around us.

[00:21:40]>> So, black people, when y'all going to start talking about breaking generational curses financially with the black family, I see a lot of y'all talking about breaking generational curses, and I get it. You know, you want to break the generational curse of not doing what your mom did, what your daddy did, and so forth. However, when are y'all going to talk about financial gener generational curse breaking? When are y'all going to talk about coming together as a black family leading with morals and integrity so your family can get ahead?

[00:22:06]So, when are y'all going to work on your emotions and become emotionally intelligent and not emotionally unstable and lead with integrity [clears throat] and not ego?

[00:22:17]All right. So, I make $15 an hour. I have one son and I do not get child support. I'm going to tell you guys some of the ways that I'm saving money cuz I get people constantly ask me, "How are you making it? How are you making it?"

[00:22:27]I'm going to be honest. Number one is credit card debt. It's not uh avoidable.

[00:22:34]Now, disclaimer, I make $15 an hour, but I did go to school uh for cosmetology. I do cut hair and I do get tips. So, I'm throwing that out there. I get tips.

[00:22:45]Depends on the day. Today, I got a $50 tip. That does not happen often. But anyways, normally I average like 40. I mean, it depends. All right.

[00:22:57]Number one, I do not get my hair and nails done. You can tell. I mean, you can tell, but it's just not in the budget. It's not a priority.

[00:23:05]All right. Number two, no internet. I know that's a tough one. Subscriptions.

[00:23:10]Haven't seen her. I do not have subscriptions to anything. I in fact closed my bank account down, so anything linked to it would be shut off. and I switched over to Chime. Um, I do use the hotspot on my phone for like my son's tablet, but that broke. So, we watch a lot of PBS Kids and he's been really into reading lately, which brings me to my next point. I don't buy the books. I go and I find the little free libraries.

[00:23:34]You can find them uh like with an app on your phone. All right. Number three, food pantries. I make too much to qualify for assistance by $1.36. So, I go to food pantries. Um, and then when I grocery shop, I go to Aldi or Walmart.

[00:23:53]Used to be a big Dollar Tree girl. They raise their prices. You are actually not getting a deal at Dollar Tree. You're better off going to Walmart in this economy.

[00:24:01]It's stuff is like five bucks there now.

[00:24:03]$1.75. It's not worth it. Oh, another thing. Quit buying bottled water and just buy a big jug. Get a water bottle and fill this. It's cheaper. Or get a Britta, but I don't like bridas. All right. Number four, thrift stores are a ripoff. I don't know what's going on with Red Racks, but they are scamming people. They are scamming people. You can buy [ __ ] cheaper brand new than you can at Red. So, forget thrifting at this point. You're going to want to find churches. A lot of food pantries also have clothes, cleaning supplies, those type of thing. Look for churches. Look for friends cleaning out their closets. Look for garage sales.

[00:24:43]Um, this isn't really a money-saving tip, but rent is going to be your top priority. You do not want to lose your house. A lot of billing places will work with you. Make sure you pay your landlord. They are not going to play. Do not lose your housing. Um, I mean, you could apply for low-inccome housing.

[00:25:02]I've tried. You're going to be on that wait list for years. So, just start just start paying your rent. All rent is expensive. You can't do anything about it. Just pay it. Um, if you do want to treat yourself, this is my little treat all the time. I get Sonic happy hour today. I actually did a survey and I got a free soft drink. I know this is not ideal. We are living in a [ __ ] up economy. I understand that.

[00:25:28]Uh, you have to sacrifice to make it.

[00:25:30]Even if you go to school for something, even if you have a trade like I do, people making $24 an hour in the Midwest are not making it. So, don't beat yourself up. Don't feel bad about it.

[00:25:41]I'm sure I have more money-saving tips in there, but um that's what I got right now and that's where I'm at and that's how I make it.

[00:25:51]A lot of people are just surviving and not living.

[00:25:58]Like a lot of people wake up the next day stressing about yesterday.

[00:26:06]Stressing about, all right, well, I I ate yesterday. I got to figure out how I'm going to eat again today. Or, you know, I I paid the bills this month. I I I I got to I got to run it back up. I got to go Door Dash. I got to go Uber. Then I got to go to work for [ __ ] 60 hours to make ends meet.

[00:26:30]And um and to whom this concern like you you might be tired of me making a video like this every now and then, but I'm going to keep making them because I like I'm I'm I'm tired of people suffering in silence, fam.

[00:26:48]Our parents our parents always grew up telling us we want we want you to be better than us.

[00:26:57]Mom, I'm trying like like I'm I'm I'm doing my best. You feel me?

[00:27:03]This like life didn't get easier since I became an adult, you know?

[00:27:11]Life was actually easier when we was when I was a kid and we was sleeping on the [ __ ] street. For real. For real.

[00:27:18]>> And I don't care how it's looking on social media. The reality is most Americans are reaching a breaking point and something has got to shake. I am Ebony and I've read another news story in case you missed it. Let's get into the highlights. As you can see by the headline, half of Americans struggle to afford groceries and gas and exclusive pole finds. So, from the grocery store to the gas pump, the cost of simply living has become overwhelming for many.

[00:27:43]And for many people, the question isn't, "What extras can I cut?" It's how do I keep up with even the basics? If you've looked at your grocery bill lately and thought, "How did it get so expensive?"

[00:27:53]Well, millions of Americans are feeling that same pressure. A new poll shows 95% of Americans believe the country is facing an affordability crisis with many people struggling to afford everyday essentials like groceries and gas, let alone just caring for themselves. And this isn't just one group of people feeling it. Families across political backgrounds are reporting the same frustration. The cost of living is impacting their budgets, their choices, and their sense of security. Because behind every grocery receipt, every tank of gas, and every monthly bill is a person or family just trying to make it work. The reality is simple. People aren't just talking about the economy and headlines. They're feeling it in their everyday lives, and they're seeing it as well. This is something I talk a lot about on this channel because I think it's important that we do not feel alone. You know, no matter how it looks, no matter what you think people can or can't afford, most people are feeling some type of economic pressure right now. you know, whether you're single or have a family, like the struggle is real right now for everyone.

[00:28:54]>> It be so annoying to me and really insensitive when older people who are now seeing what us younger people are dealing with in this type of economy and days that we live in are like, "Oh, well, you know, you're young. You know, you can probably get four or five jobs.

[00:29:08]You can work overtime. You know, you have the means and the money to keep up in this society. We don't. We're on fixed incomes. You know, we're on retirement. We're on social social security. Um I'm like I don't know. To me it's like it's tonedeaf. It's like are you really aware of what's going on?

[00:29:26]I don't think I I obviously you're not because you wouldn't have made that statement if you were. It's hard enough to get one job and keep one job in this [ __ ] economy. We we haven't even got to two, three, four, and five on this one job. The way that they're working you and busting your balls and got you working like you in a [ __ ] sweat shop. It almost seems you've worked for four or five [ __ ] jobs during one shift. Who has enough time between all of the [ __ ] that you have to do to be working four or five jobs? And overtime is just not as much as you want. That has to be approved and, you know, regulated. It's not like, oh, I'm just going to sit on a clock and just rack up overtime. You know, if that's an opportunity that's open for that particular time frame, then yeah, but [ __ ] been worked so hard during a one one [ __ ] shift. who want to sit for five more hours and I think that you all are getting a taste of what we are going through and you think that it's easy and and let me just say this too we're all to an extent on a fixed income most of us are average everyday working people we all have a set limit set amount of what we can spend and a budget so when they be like oh well we're on a fixed income we're not like we're all on a fixed income I'm not getting two million tomorrow and then five million the month after you know we all have a set amount and we get paid and we navigate through life. And I just think that y'all can't fathom or come to terms that this is just the world we live in.

[00:30:50]And you know, a lot of you are in the latter days of your years of of your life. So, I mean, you won't have to deal with this much longer. For us, it's a completely different world. It's hustle and bustle. Jobs are not like what they used to be. They're not loyal to employees. There's not a reason to stay.

[00:31:08]So, yes, when y'all be like, "Well, why are y'all quitting? Why are y'all jumping? People are jumping to the next best opportunity and what's paying better. Back in the day, yeah, you can walk in, demand a job, do a on the spot interview. [ __ ] is not like that no more. It's recruiters that ghost you.

[00:31:22]It's It's like you're applying to be a Secret Service agent the way they got you jumping through hoops to apply to a [ __ ] job and a bare minimum paying job at that. [ __ ] is just completely [ __ ] different these days.

[00:31:33]And I think that y'all think that we just have it so easy and we can just do whatever. And we really don't. We actually have it a lot harder because it's a lot of [ __ ] that we got to go through on a dayto-day. We're paying mortgages that y'all pay for rent.

[00:31:49]Like it's just a completely different world. So when y'all be making it seem like life is just cookies and cream for us, I really want y'all to be educated on what you're saying because a lot of you sound ignorant and