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Biden reportedly regrets ending re-election campaign and says he’d have defeated Trump
(www.theguardian.com)
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when did age catch up with Biden?
he was supporting segregation policies way back when and has always supported nonprogressive policies and based his thinking on Catholicism
wtf did he do that deserves any kind of praise?
being vice to Obama and having Harris as a vice and supporting outdated nonmodern religious right leaning policies does not make him a savior to anyone
Inflation reduction act, chips, a pretty decent student loan forgiveness program (best he could do with SCOTUS), pardoning federal marijuana convictions come to mind...
food/housing costs/insurance rates/taxes are still astronomically high but hey sure that Biden and the billionaires that own our government got reduced inflation
yes he helped someone open up a chip factory
barely anyone got student loan forgiveness
he did nothing for cannabis convictions or the movement since he started being a politician over half a century ago and instead helped incarcerate a shit ton of people but then again, he would have had less people voting for him if he had not helped lock up so many people
fuck Biden for helping to sell our potential to the highest bidder
Neither Biden nor any other US president has control over the costs of food, housing, or insurance rates. Not sure what specific taxes you're complaining about.
Also, you might want to check out what happens when you spend a year and a half pumping out $600 checks every week to unemployed people across the country to entice them to stay home, causing labor costs to skyrocket. Or did you not notice traditionally minimum-wage employers like fast food joints and supermarkets start offering $19/hr+ just to get people in the door. What did you think was going to happen to labor costs? Did you think corporations were just going to absorb those costs at the cost of their own profits? LOLOLOLOLOLOL. What about the people who were making $19 before the pandemic and saw the equivalent of Walmart greeters suddenly getting paid the same amount? You don't think they demanded raises too? The ripple effects of those checks absolutely caused labor costs to permanently skyrocket up and down the food chain, and of course those costs are going to be passed onto the consumer in the form of higher prices.
And do you know what happens when you just magically print money out of nowhere (the entire costs of those unemployment checks were simply tacked on to the national debt.)? Huge spikes in inflation. This is pretty much economics 101.
And everything else can pretty much be chalked up to greedflation. Supplies increased by (made up number for explanatory purposes) 10% so of course they shot their prices up by 15% and just blamed supply chain issues.
Who started sending those $600 checks out? Oh, that was Trump. Because "throw money at it" is his answer to everything.
Actually, there's about a dozen of them being built across the country. Might wanna take a look at all the jobs created by the Inflation Reduction Act.
And that's thanks to SCOTUS gutting 90% of his plans.
Except for the two proclamations announcing pardons for federal cannabis convictions.
Exactly what "shit ton of people" did he incarcerate?
That bidder was Trump, and fuck you for helping him return to power.
pushing and advocating for living wages that all states have to follow would help and the DNC quit advocating on this
not every business Walmart and Mcdonald's included are paying $19 an hour everywhere and in the south people are still making less than $15 an hour even with construction jobs pay is abominably low
not all those jobs will include living wages with worker rights included
Democrats always have a scapegoat
again that amounts to nothing especially considering how much damage him and the Democrats have caused and continue to do so
Biden helped craft laws that put a lot people in jail that either should not have been or should not have been as long of a sentence which to me amounts to rigging the election by keeping people jailed
Trump is just another puppet like Biden is
Because they got what they wanted. What you fail to take into account is that companies and corporate landlords simply responded by jacking up prices and rents which basically nullified the benefits. What do you think is going to happen if wages got jacked up to $25? The same thing. Corporations and landlords would just jack up prices even further to increase their profits and nullifying the gains that the increased wages bring. And the cycle continues and continues.
If you want to break that cycle, start dragging corporate CEOs into hearings and making them answer why their profit margins skyrocket faster than inflation. But if all you're going to do is demand increased wages while doing nothing on the other side, you're just going to ensure that the cycle will continue forever. No amount of wage increase is going to actually improve anybody's financial situation if they're going to do nothing about corporations simply raising prices and landlords raising rents even further in response.
People could demand that government raise the federal minimum wage to elevety billion dollars an hour. Won't matter so long as corporations continue to respond by increasing prices by eleventy trillion just because they think they deserve more profit.
This is a fair point. I live in New England, and that's where rates are right now. My daughter works as a greeter at a Chuck-E-Cheese and makes $17 an hour. To stand there and stamp kids' hands. If you expect quality workers who will actually stick around for more than a few days, you need to start at $20. Minimum. That's just the reality around here. And for what it's worth, it really doesn't matter. Corporations and landlords just jacked everything else up in response when the wages started rising. Apartments in the shitty parts of town that used to go for $600 a month are now in the $1500-$2000 range. Plenty of people around here were better off when wages were half of what they were now simply because those wages at least went further. I'm not saying that they were good by any stretch of the imagination, but a person making $10 an hour ($400 a week, $1600 a month) and has $1600 in expenses is still doing better than someone making $3200 a month but has $3500 worth of expenses. And that's pretty much where we are now.
$15 an hour was a living wage before the pandemic. The problem isn't the wage. It's that the cost of living just went up even faster, and our government is unwilling to start hauling CEOs before Congress and demanding that they justify their inflated profit margins. Haul a few CEOs before congress, make them explain themselves (especially now, with the looming threat of someone else going full Luigi on their ass), and watch greed-flation suddenly become passe.
Exactly what damage is that, and how does allowing Trump to return to power help in any possible way?
And exactly what laws are those?
Oh, come on now. This is the most ridiculous take I've ever heard. Not everything is political persecution or election interference. Talk about looking for a scapegoat. Stop sounding like Trump.
Ah, yes. The both-sides-ism. Because Biden absolutely was going to enact a national abortion ban, kill off the Department of Education, gut social safety net programs, deport a bunch of brown people. And Trump is going to actually create jobs, cancel student debt, pardon cannabis users.....
Yep. Both sides are exactly the same. Yesirreee.....
So we should be kicking other Democrats out of office too? Sure I'm good with that. There's absolutely things they can do. They just refuse to move without the approval of the Republicans. For example HUD has an authority to literally build housing. FEMA can buy containerized housing and deploy that.
Labor costs didn't sky rocket. That's corporate propaganda. They got caught telling their shareholders they didn't actually have cost push inflation, they were just raising prices. If labor costs had skyrocketed then maybe workers could still afford cereal and milk. Also, we know you can pay 20 an hour and not significantly raise prices, we saw this in pre-pandemic California.
Honestly your comment reads like you get your news from the opinion section of the Wall Street Journal.
LOL.
Low end positions going from barely over the federal minimum and are now paying $15, but labor costs didn't skyrocket. I'd love to meet your math teacher so I can slap them for failing you so hard. And do you think corporations are going to be benevolent and just absorb those costs if they don't have to? If the employees are demanding a wage increase, that increase is going to come in the form of increased prices to consumers, along with a little extra bump for themselves. Whether you think that's right is irrelevant. It's going to happen, you can't change that, and it's not going to change. There isn't a world where corporations aren't going to increase wages and just absorb those costs out of the kindness of their hearts. It's just not going to happen.
Never said they didn't. Both things can happen, you know. Labor costs skyrocketed. They just decided to make their corporate profits skyrocket at the same time and just blame the labor costs. Doesn't mean labor costs didn't skyrocket.
Not if the costs of cereal and milk skyrocketed even faster. That's what happened. People got the pay raises they demanded. Corporations and landlords just retaliated by jacking up prices and rents even more. You can demand all the wage increases you want. But as long as corporations can respond with even bigger price hikes, no amount of pay will give you a living wage.
If you want to solve the problem, the solution is to start hauling CEOs before congress and making them explain their skyrocketing profit margins to the American people. Put some teeth to price gouging laws. Put heavier taxes on corporate profits that are above pre-pandemic percentages. But if you just demand increased wages while doing nothing about what's going on on the other end, you're going to wonder why you can never make ends meet no matter how much money you make.
You didn't listen to a goddamn word. Just repeated your propaganda harder.