{"id":135,"date":"2026-01-29T09:25:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:25:54","slug":"the-united-states-is-cruel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/29\/the-united-states-is-cruel\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States is Cruel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cruelty of state and federal governments in the US knows no bounds. I\u2019ve done everything right and by the <em>so-called <\/em>book. Then life happened, my business failed, my finances collapsed, and I became dirt poor and living on Social Security Disability. Now prices rise due to inflation, and ready or not, I must work full time again. My country sees me as a drag on it yet demands my love and patriotism. What kind of psychologically unstable situation is this!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday was really hard for Denisse and I. On top of that I drank way too much last night. I haven\u2019t drank like that since my college days. I had to drag myself across the floor and into the bedroom. I slept like crap as a result. I was so angry last night that it ended up leading to depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The country l live in is cruel to the working poor. Wages are far below what it actually takes to afford even the most basic needs. There is no help for the people that need it and the red carpets are rolled out for the wealthy in the form of tax breaks and incentives so that there is even less money in the coffers to help. It\u2019s socialism for the wealthy and austerity for the poor; shouldn\u2019t be this way at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead we have a carnival barker for a president that makes Calvin Coolidge look like a Rhodes Scholar by comparison. The one party that is <em>supposed <\/em>to care about the poor and working class just pretends to. It\u2019s only performative. Both parties are committed to hyper capitalism. Both are committed to rigging the system in favor of the capitalist class. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s even sinister to the point where we no longer offer classes in personal finance to high school students. I\u2019m 48 and back when I was in high school they didn\u2019t teach it. I suspect that was simply because there wasn\u2019t money in the budget. Today, it\u2019s been discovered by the financial wizards that by not teaching people personal finance, they more readily go into debt through excess spending (and buying what they do not need) by marketing these goods and services such that they feel like psychological necessities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cruelty of state and federal governments in the US knows no bounds. I\u2019ve done everything right and by the so-called book. Then life happened, my business failed, my finances collapsed, and I became dirt poor and living on Social Security Disability. Now prices rise due to inflation, and ready or not, I must work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}