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I cannot find it again, but I read an article just this morning that was exactly the opposite of this. It was all about consumer sentiment hitting a record low. The media just sucks these days. It's all fucking lies.

I cannot find it again, but I read an article just this morning that was exactly the opposite of this. It was all about consumer sentiment hitting a record low. The media just sucks these days. It's all fucking lies.
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I was just having this convo with my wife and son this morning. Without doxing too much, my area has MAJOR military presence from several branches. At the moment, it's split into 3 areas: the super rich, the sort of rich that live on base, and the lower enlisted that have to live off base. I live and work near the later of the 3. Right now, they can barely make ends meet. I heard one situation where the parents are eating once a day at the Defac, and relying on schools to feed their kids otherwise. This is just 1 situation, but it's not unique. And what's worse: the enlisted get disenfranchised by the military pay and life, and leave. But then they hit the private sector, only to realize it's 100x worse for people who aren't public employees.

Whatever our news sources have said about shit being bad out there, let me tell you as someone who is an eyewitness to a specific part that is entwined with their family lives: It's much, MUCH, worse.