Happy Meals and Hard Truths: The Fast Food Collapse and America’s Middle-Class Extinction

Fast Food: The Last Bastion of the Poor, Now Out of Reach There was a time—before Wall Street liquefied the bones of Main Street—that fast food was the poor man’s buffet. Dollar menus gave folks a brief illusion of freedom. You couldn’t buy land. You couldn’t afford a doctor. But by God, you could afford a burger. That was the last thread tying the American worker to a sense of normalcy. That thread just snapped. Now McDonald’s suits are whining that beef costs too much. That labor costs too much. That "inflation" is driving away their base—the poor. The same demographic they milked for decades is now too broke to buy a clown-branded cheeseburger. Wendy’s is shuttering hundreds of stores. And nobody’s asking the real question: Who destroyed the economy so thoroughly that a $6 Happy Meal is now a luxury item? The Cattle Die-Off and the Beef Mirage The official excuse? “Oh, the cattle herd is shrinking.” Yes, droughts. Parasites. Screwworms. Blame it on everything except the rigged food supply chain that's run by five meatpacking conglomerates who’ve been artificially inflating prices for years while they offshore beef and import garbage meat. Cattle herds are at 75-year lows. Beef prices? Up 13% year-over-year. And the Treasury Secretary, who probably hasn’t seen the inside of a Walmart in decades, has the audacity to tell us beef might hit $10 per pound in 2026—and it’s somehow not their fault. Spare me. While American ranchers are driven into bankruptcy, Biden’s bureaucrats have the USDA waving red flags over diseased imports and pushing cricket protein down your throat as “sustainable food.” No, this isn't sci-fi. Insect protein is already hitting shelves. Why? Because they know what's coming. And it ain't steak. 42 Million Americans on Food Stamps—And Counting Here’s the kicker: even government cheese is being rationed now. Over 42 million Americans rely on food stamps. Now? The USDA, under the same smiling suits who tanked the economy, is preparing to purge millions from the rolls. New rules. Re-application hoops. Bureaucratic razzle-dazzle. You’d think fraud was the issue. No. The real fraud is this system pretending that pulling food from starving families is somehow fiscal responsibility, while Congress signs trillion-dollar blank checks for foreign wars and central banks print ghost money into oblivion. Health Insurance? $2,500 a Month, If You’re Lucky Let’s talk about healthcare—America’s most legalized extortion racket. One working mother lost employer coverage. The cheapest plan she could find? $2,500 a month. For a family of five. That’s not healthcare. That’s ransom with a corporate logo. And the only “death panels” we ever needed to fear were private insurers in Washington boardrooms, flipping a coin on whether your kid gets chemo or a casket. Six-Figure Salaries, One Paycheck Away from Broke The pain isn’t confined to the poor anymore. The middle class—what's left of it—is running on fumes. USA Today admits it. One in three six-figure earners are in survival mode. Two-thirds say six figures doesn’t mean wealth anymore. A $100,000 income used to buy security. Now it barely covers rent, groceries, daycare, gas, and medical insurance. Welcome to the great compression: where the poor become destitute and the middle class becomes the poor—while the top 0.01% laughs from their BlackRock-built fortresses. Rising Delinquencies: The Coming Collapse Has Begun Serious delinquencies—people more than 90 days late on payments—have crossed 3% nationwide, the highest since the Great Recession. Student loans? Over 14% severely overdue. That’s not a blip. That’s a slow-motion collapse. And it's being papered over with stock buybacks, crypto speculation, and financial fantasy pumped out by the same cartel of central banks that caused this mess. Every institution that was supposed to protect you—Congress, the Fed, the USDA, the Treasury, the media—they’ve sold you out. They gutted America from the inside, hollowed out its industry, exported your future, and handed you a bag of bugs and a stack of debt in return. What’s Next? Brace yourself. When food is out of reach, when homes are unaffordable, when even the golden goose of fast food flies away—societies break. And don’t expect a rescue. The cavalry’s not coming. The cavalry is the problem. The people running this show? They’re not incompetent. They’re predatory. They know exactly what they’re doing. They're pushing the American majority into neo-serfdom, where you'll own nothing, eat paste, and thank them for the privilege of surviving another day. If the dollar collapses—and it will—don’t say you weren’t warned. This isn’t about politics anymore. It’s about survival. It’s about reclaiming dignity in a system designed to crush it. The working American has been used like a rented mule. And now that the machine no longer needs you? They're leaving you to starve at the golden arches.

Happy Meals and Hard Truths: The Fast Food Collapse and America’s Middle-Class Extinction

Bill Brocius Nov 18

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