Editor's Note: We know things are getting bad. But how bad can they get? According to the information shared by Michael Snyder of the Economic Collapse Blog in the article below, families across America are being systematically destroyed and the trajectory of the economic data suggest that it's are only going to get worse. And though most people don't realize it's happening and continue to live their lives in passive oblivion, their lives will soon be shaken to the very core, as everything they have come to know as "normal" is torn to pieces.

19 Signs That American Families Are Being Economically Destroyed
By Michael Snyder

The systematic destruction of the American way of life is happening all around us, and yet most people have no idea what is happening.  Once upon a time in America, if you were responsible and hard working you could get a good paying job that could support a middle class lifestyle for an entire family even if you only had a high school education.  Things weren't perfect, but generally almost everyone in the entire country was able to take care of themselves without government assistance.  We worked hard, we played hard, and our seemingly boundless prosperity was the envy of the entire planet.