Is there a spiritual explanation as to why 76% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck?

One aspect of this is the high level of corruption-and psychopathology--during the last three administrations in Washington, how very many people in Congress have sold out...and the level of power wielded in pursuit of the Globalist Agenda. And, certainly the Wall Street-banking sabotage of America.

I don't happen to believe in Satan...but it is pretty much the same as if Satan now inhabited the White House. Perpetual wars, a breakdown of the Republic and constant lies.

Yes, there is.

Without a religion helping to curb those WANTS, many religions work for this,

then there is no control.

Not all have this problem, but as this article points out, 76% is very high.

Some of that 24% will be wealthy, some incompetent, so put away,

some in nursing homes...so let's remove another 12% (likely higher)

for that and all we have are 12% who are managing.

So credit cards, fantasy, thinking it's 'no big deal', and 'i'll manage',

and 'what's $15,000 for that mini-van a big sale anyway?

Well, when the person doesn't HAVE it, it's beyond what they

can manage.

Entitlement is another one: the 'I deserve this'....since when, and why

is that?

A belief in spiritual things changes a person to think about other things.

For example, for some people, all they need really is to have a good

bible to read and maybe the concordance. They can borrow other

books.

I think of Paul's writings 'eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die'...

and that's how so many live, having no purpose beyond today.

Then...tomorrow comes.

No.

There is a secular reason for it. Laws and tax policies that favour the rich:

After-Tax Income Grew More for Highest-Income Households

After-tax income for the highest-income households grew more than it did for any other group. (After-tax income is income after federal taxes have been deducted and government transfers—which are payments to people through such programs as Social Security and Unemployment Insurance—have been added.)

CBO (Congressional Budget Office) finds that, between 1979 and 2007, income grew by:

275 percent for the top 1 percent of households,

65 percent for the next 19 percent,

Just under 40 percent for the next 60 percent, and

18 percent for the bottom 20 percent.

Policies such as the Bush tax cuts (Which, along with two unfunded wars) exploded the deficit. Failing to increase the minimum wage to keep up with inflation has left such workers deeply below the poverty line.

The religious connection is that the party of the right, the GOP, USED evangelical voters to vote against their own financial interests, by dazzling them with hot button social policy issues. But, even when the GOP had the White House and both Houses of Congress, they didn't do squat about those social issues, thy just went on shoveling more $ to the rich and screwing the idiot GOP voters.

A Lot of People are trying to live Champaign Lives on a Beer Budget though Myself I Prefer Rum, Instead of Living within their means I may Not be Happy with What I Have, of Cause I want Better everyone Does But it is all I can Afford so I just Accept it.

Maybe...

With the MEDIAN world-wide income being $7,000 and with at most 7.7% of US households making less than $10,000, a better question is why is it so hard to live on our income in the US when the rest of the world gets by on less?

a) Is it that food and other necessities are much more expensive in the US than the rest of the world?

b) Is it that people in the US buy more stuff and better quality stuff than people in the rest of the world? Are we overspending our incomes?

Well, what do you expect? who runs America? Besides, none of these people actually count - just look at all the 'FEMA' camps springing up everywhere and the mission stated on the Georgia Guidestones - to reduce the population to how much?

My explanation is that I have a shitty job because it's the only one I could find. I need to go to school, but can't decide what for.

Greed - which isn't exactly a Biblical teaching, yet many Christians routinely support it.

Poor people think about now, with no thought for the future or consequences of today's decisions.

Well they say blessed be the poor....

If that is the case than many Americans are about as blessed as they can handle....