My husband is from San Diego, Oceanside and he worked one job and survived just fine. It is very expensive in some areas of the country and I believe that people that have difficulty making ends meet should have assistance.
Yes, and the areas that have the highest, most artificially inflated costs of living and the most business unfriendly economic environment (think California, New York, Maryland, North Carolina, Massachusetts etc.) are, one and all, those historically controlled by a primarily Democratic political class, i.e., socialists.
And even in the worst of them, economic opportunity is rife compared to much of Western Europe. Indeed, I'm a San Diego native (at least I consider myself one), and I wouldn't live there again for any reason whatever. San Diego, like much of California, has become a kind of Fabian Socialist enclave, riddled with government sponsored economic scams, confiscatory taxation, sky high costs of living, massive artificial general inflation above the national average, and numerous incentives not to start a small business and try to get ahead.
I have no idea how the middle glass survives in this once great state. Want a taste of what Germany, France, the U.K., and much of Western Europe has become. Try living in California. I loved it in the Seventies and even into the mid-eighties. Now? No way. Great place to visit, but California features a textbook example of what transpires when you have government for the sake of government.
The entrepreneurial class is being crushed in the Golden State, and government is preeminent (indeed, as I've said before, California is virtually a satrapy of the environmental movement. California is heading for a really crippling energy crisis with its environmentalists hanging over the proceedings like buzzards).
Sad, all the way around.