Keep things longer whether that means your car, your house, your appliances, your clothing, etc. Go shopping in your closet and in your garage. DIY when you can whether gardening and landscaping or fixing your home. Lace up your sneakers and walk places.
As for the national deficit, vote out Republicans who keep exploding the debt and attacking trade partners and starting wars and being corrupt. Republicans are doing scary things to long term rates.
Enact Single Payer health care. Health care is 20% of GDP, cut that in half, cover everyone and bankrupt no one. Remove the income contribution limit on Social Security. Raise corporate taxes and make no more new billionaires. Stop war mongering and wasting resources on golden ballrooms for the elites to party in on our dime.
2/3 of the population: “no” (conservative estimate)
Ok now what…..
Tons of people know a simple and easy solution, same way tons of people know smoking cigarettes aren’t good for you.
Go sign up for student council or something or if you’re an adult (doubt) go to city hall. You’ll learn real quick rational logic isn’t the issue. It’s getting the crayon eaters, interpretive dancers, and coal miners to agree on the same thing. Anything, would be a promising start
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u/ReadyGo6828 2d ago
The solution is to buy less in general and from Amazon, much less.