Yeah. Record breaking costs and record breaking profit margins as far as the eye can see. Fuck off with this bullshit.
Well, the media has worked very very hard to paint Biden in the worst possible light and not give him credit for anything other than putting on his pants each morning, so its no wonder people feel that way.
The fact is that our economy is booming. We will need to adjust out GDP upward before the end of the year if the strikes don't hurt. Virtually every country in the rest of the world has huge economic problems compared to the US.
The economy is doing great but that doesn't mean shit for the working class, as intended.
Whenever I read the term “the economy” my brain substitutes the words “rich people’s yacht money” because I’ve never been affected by it one way or the other.
Good for them and their yachts though.
I don't give a shit about "ThE eConOmY", I care about how ordinary people are affected. I don't know about all of you, but I'm still in an ever worsening situation. Biden has made little to no difference for me.
Sure…thats why the major automakers workers are striking, because its so wonderful under biden. And gas is over $5 a gallon
thats why the major automakers workers are striking, because its so wonderful under biden.
Biden has very little to do with that. Those are the executives and shareholders of those automakers. Dems have tried to increase benefits for employees. It's mostly a no-go at the federal level.
Here is the slimmest majority with 50 senators; two of those are republicans in sheep's clothing. Oh, also you lose house majority 2 years in.
You can't fix an entire system with that? Fuck you Biden.
Biden should be raging from the bully pulpit about Congress fucking the American people over. But he isn't, and he helped install the current status quo. Obama got a pass because he wasn't in federal office in the 90's swinging a wrecking ball into the safety net and we could believe he was silently trying to work on things. Biden was and he hasn't repudiated any of the things that actually fuck us peons over. And yet we'll vote for him in 2024 because the GOP is incapable of meeting the basic standard of upholding democratic elections. I've watched the Democrats tell me they're going to fix the basic problems of the economy for 30 years. Only for them to turn around and line the pockets of the rich and tell us that it will somehow help us. Every time they come up with some new plan to help us it's the same two things. Either they hand the money to a rich person who swears they'll distribute it and totally not just buy a new yacht; or it's a once a year tax credit that sounds big because it's a lump sum but in reality comes out to about 150 dollars a month at most.
Like I said, for now the GOP's idiocy is going to hold the line for the Dems but at some point people are just going to stop engaging with the system.
This is all simplly caused by our refusal to build housing for the last 50 years. Almost all the pain is because of housing costs.
New housing is built all the time, just not in a places that are in demand where everyone wants to live at.
You mean you don't want to live in a 500k townhouse that is directly off the highway and has no walkability, sidewalks, or public transportation? Smh
Ya know, a 20% raise against inflation over the past 10 years would help.
Seems like 50% of Americans still believe Trump is going to make America great at the next election...
If the Dems try to run on status quo they will lose just like when Hillary did the same thing.
I dunno, Joe "Nothing will fundamentally change" Biden did OK.
He just did better than Trump. The amount of support Trump still has is ridiculous meaning it's more fervent than before. The reason Trump won originally could be why he wins again (if he makes it through primaries and doesn't get convicted). I don't think Biden can rest on his laurels for the upcoming election. Folks aren't happy and enough of them are either disinterested entirely and won't vote or mistakenly believe Republicans will fix it.
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