Absolutely. I have family that work for the state, and the stories they tell...

There are millions of people living well in this country that would be, for lack of a better analogy, corpses anywhere else in the world.

The problem is that the working middle class seem to have it the hardest. I know people with (useless) college degrees that are suffering more than people who come from chronically unemployed families and have several children (but no jobs or earned income.)