I watch my children struggle to make ends meet, with the financial pressures of energy bills, food costs and fuel prices. These are the things essential to basic health, well-being and mobility for themselves and their children. I wonder if we can ever stop the descent into poverty for the working population.
When I was younger, with children in school, the mortgage rate was 8 percent. We were not troubled, because energy, food, and fuel prices were not being artificially increased by the “woke” among us. They have sacrificed otherwise happy working families to the climate change gods.
When younger I had a good job, but not so well paid that I could call us well-off. My wife did not have to work to help make ends meet, but we got by without sweating it. Now I listen to my children, who do not know where this will all end. They worry about how much household energy will cost next month, and how they will afford to put enough fuel in their tank to take my grandchildren to school and for them to get back and forth to work. They struggle to think of ways they can cut down on their basic food costs. They are not badly paid, but it takes a minimum of two incomes to just get by.
Working people are being placed in a cauldron, and the water is being gently heated until they all become sleepy and unaware of what is happening. Now the water is beginning to boil. I think our politicians had better wake up.
John Branthoover
Arlington
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