Obligatory Average Human Welfare
That has absolutely nothing to do with the economy booming -that has to do with you electing legislators to enact appropriate legislation. That’s not a failure of the economy, that’s a failure of the voters.
Yes, but to be fair a lot of us were swindled into it. District moving, lies, misinformation, voter suppression, and many are working so much there’s hardly time to verify what’s-what. Then when voting day comes along the ballots are worded so obscurely that the average person has no idea what the fuck they’re actually voting for/against. I get lost in the wording at times as well!
I vote, and I vote for the best interests of the majority because I’m wired that way. Many others are… confused
The stuff in the post isn’t really caused by any issue that you might vote for at the polls, but by politicians who may be gerrymandered into place. The child poverty increase is likely a speedy result of Rs killing the child tax credit, and covid assistance programs running out. The people getting booted from Medicaid is the result of income restrictions that were loosened during covid getting tightened again. Biden has tried student debt relief, but the supreme Court decided to overreach and kill his initial program.
I’m not saying that these things aren’t a problem, but that I think it’s likely that the people posting this kind of stuff are trying to frame it specifically as failures of the Biden admin, with the goal of getting people to not vote, waste their vote on a spoiler candidate, or vote for Trump.
Default Country, obviously.
We’ve had development indexes for decades, but nobody cares: https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/country-insights#/ranks
I’m very disappointed that nobody in the media bothers with follow up questions.
“The economy is booming!”
“For who?” For Joe ‘I own a yacht’ Manchin? Yeah, I’m sure it is.
This goes back decades now with politicians on both the right and left claiming to support “middle class tax cuts” and nobody asks “how do you define ‘middle class’?”
https://www.newsweek.com/tax-cuts-republicans-middle-class-trump-701094
"House Republicans issued a fact sheet about their new tax cut plan that referred to Americans earning $450,000 a year as “low- and middle-income”—even though that income level would put those taxpayers in the top 0.5 percent of all individual Americans.
The median household income in the United States is $59,039, after all."
Being out of touch implies they don’t understand the situation. They fully understand, they don’t care.
I don’t know man. My millionaire uncle was bitching today about labor costs after the minimum wage went up in his state. “I don’t know how I’m going to make it.” He says, literally hours after I spent 60k (his money) on stuff for one of his classic cars he’s restoring.
It literally isn’t even something he realizes. He doesn’t buy his own groceries. Everything he wants he gets with ease. He doesn’t have to think about the cost. In his mind, groceries cost roughly what they did in the 80s when he was getting them for himself.
He’s a narcissist, so if I were to say to him, “Bro, they’d be starving right now without it.” I could end up on a shit list.
It has been one of my big privileges having him in my life and I love him and appreciate him, but he truly is out of touch. Completely. I would have been homeless 15 times at least without his help. I have to pay him back, but it truly is a privilege being a fuckup like me and having someone look out for me like he has.
I feel guilty even using him as an example, but I’m not wrong.
