If that is what it takes to keep our present form of government, an unqualified, YES.
I see it all. I also see the slow but consistent expansion of the economy, the help wanted advertisements on local TV for factory jobs in this area with starting salaries that would put the hired workers significantly above average state income and providing a comfortable lifestyle for average families. In traveling, to mountainous rural Arkansas last week, I saw campgrounds packed with motor homes, late model RVs, camper trailers and SUVs, from all over the United States, Maine to Montana, this after the start of school, and during workweek, not a holiday week. The price of gas holding nobody back from leisure trips hundreds to well over a thousand miles, to park their camper or travel bus by rushing clear streams in slots, several thought a bargain at well over a thousand a month.
It is true, I see people like yourself lamenting the higher prices of goods and services and finding news articles to support, yet I know that when it comes to good news, good news does not sell and worrisome or bad news does and understand advertising profits are up, also. So, I look around and can't help thinking, "How bout that? It's the good money expanding economy 90s again. Though hardly what anybody would consider rich, I see me coming back from one leisure trip, only to book another beach house for our next vacation in the sand and sun (leaving Friday), away from cooler temps, simply to relax from our surprisingly busy retired life, knowing there is nothing special about me. It had only taken conservative planning and execution over our exceedingly average work lives, while raising our family, pretty much reflecting the conservative values and money management taught by parents and grandparents. I hear your laments, but cannot help but think, thou dost protest too much.