North Carolina

To improve the lifestyles of yourself and your family. But when people don't even remember the progress that we have made, we can be easily pushed right back down that ladder.

Sure you can eat on $5.70 a day. And healthily too. But not like people are used to today. It will be like we used to eat when I grew up a half century ago. Most calories came from the bottom shelves at the grocery store. 25 lb bags of pinto beans, masa harina/de trigo, rice, potatoes, onions. Make your own bread and tortillas, cook beans in the pressure cooker (now it is even easier with crock pots). It even gets to be what you prefer. My sister is a nurse practitioner and to this day she often has burritos for lunch.
It sure is nice to have a broader menu sometimes, but for those of us who didn't have that as readily available it may not be that difficult to go back. For people who have gotten used to being a bit spoiled it will probably be more difficult.
Let's hope that they see to it that their children never grow up to forget that when presidents like Hoover, Reagan, Bush, Trump talk about cutting social safety nets for anyone, they are really talking about cutting social safety nets for all of the working class.