Please put down your drink, you won't want to cover your computer/device's screen with coffee or juice or water. But if you do ruin your electronic device, no one understands your pain more than the Wall Street Journal.
How can you make $400,000 dollars a year and still feel like you're just getting by?
Yes, how? How can that happen? Why is that happening? Where are we? Am I taking crazy pills? Let's forget that the median middle-class household income peaked at $56,080 in 1999 and it stands at roughly $50,017 now. Welcome to examples of the shrinking middle class, Wall Street Journal. Give us a financial breakdown that we can all relate to, please. Let's begin with our Core Expenses, below the fold.
Ouch. I want a home like that. Well, time to start buying powdered milk. Also, Geico can probably help with the auto-insurance issue. What else is there?
Two vacations at $25K! Boom! New car! Bang! Club dues? What else, Wall Street Journal?
Ahhhhhh! Damn those mangy kids! What's the WSJ's solution?
Now is the time to make some changes. Save that bonus and cut your spending–while you still have an income.
That's it. Best part is the "cut your spending." The Wall Street Journal. CUT YOUR SPENDING! But make sure you spend to keep the economy working, right?
Constrained American consumers are threatening to weigh on U.S. growth just after the economy regained its footing following a pullback early in the year. Hamstrung by weak income gains, consumers are struggling to step up spending. That is providing perhaps the biggest challenge to a second-half economic breakout that already is at risk due to global unrest and persistent slack in the labor market.
But that article is from like almost two weeks ago. Things have changed. Club dues are due, man.