Child Poverty and people getting thrown off Medicaid are the return to status quo after temporary pandemic programs. If those people being poor and not having Medicaid prevent the economy from booming then the economy has never boomed except in the depths of the Covid lockdowns.
Maybe "booming" isn't what we need the economy to be. I'd much rather it be humane.
I make very good money, but I'd be perfectly happy making 1/3 as much if I knew my savings wouldn't be obliterated by things totally out of my control like medical bills or a layoff. I feel bad about hoarding money but I still do it because I know the only real safety net I have in this country is what I make for myself.
Good luck getting him to honestly explain why those things are the way they are.
You don't understand: it's the creative destruction. Yes, people are destroyed, but that's a sccrifice the rich are willing to make.
The economy doing well doesn’t mean out of control capitalists stop price gouging the fuck out of anything and everything
This post is fucking brain dead
Gotta love when liberals get angry at you for challenging the narrative that the economy is doing great because they are terrified of Trump winning... and they think trying to gaslight people (who by and large are pretty desperate right now) into thinking the economy is doing great is the best strategy to get Biden elected.
Nope, you just make democrats come off as a condescending assholes who are out of touch.
Can't wait until they blame progressives again for losing ("So JUST because Biden is the most crucial international supporter/enabler of a genocide and won't do anything meaningful about it means you aren't going to vote for him???!?? You people are the problem").
Nope, you just make democrats come off as a condescending assholes who are out of touch.
And Republicans are what, nice, kind people who have their finger on the pulse of the nation?
Did I insinuate conservatives were better? That was not my intention.
Those will be the only two viable choices in 2024. A third party is not going to win the presidency any more than it did when Ross Perot or Ralph Nader tried it.
The economy is booming, but you also need to negotiate with your employer and switch jobs if needed. Unless your boss automatically gave your 10%+ annual adjustment, you are slowly falling behind.
"Yes, the economy is booming for your employer, and the country will continue to bend over backwards to ensure this continues. Yes, you're going to fall behind ever more as extraction of wealth from Workers continues to stretch you thinner and thinner."
I am reminded of the old joke.
A worker pulls into the parking lot of his office. His boss pulls up next to him in a new sports car. The worker goes, "Wow! New car? Looks amazing." The boss goes, "It is! And if you work hard, hit your targets, and put in some overtime, I can buy a new one next quarter."
"They" is just another corporate machine. It's not for us, it just pretends to be. "Booming" is just a reflection of the current stock bump, unemployment lows and analyst predictions because that's all a corporate machine would know about. It could just as easily turn around next week to "recession lights blinking" or some other nonsense. You can pretty safely just ignore all that trash at this point.
they're trying to convince other rich goons more than us
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