Re:I’m a Coastal Elite from the Midwest: The Real Bubble Is ...
by jacobolus on Friday November 11, 2016 @02:31PM
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Are you suggesting that HN commenter spiritofenter is "people who work two jobs and still can't afford rent or childcare"
Anyhow, inre his original
> national leadership has not done anything to address it
Obama and the Democrats have been trying hard to push for more infrastructure spending, improved childcare, more money to bail out struggling state governments, minimum wage increases, more parental leave, continuing fixes to the healthcare system, reduced prescription drug prices, relief for the heavily indebted, etc., but (a) they’ve faced unprecedented obstructionism and deliberate dysfunction from the GOP (for instance states refusing federal money for medicare expansion and trying to sabotage the ACA), and (b) these are difficult problems which can’t be solved by waving a wand and uttering a magic incantation.
The auto industry bailout and stimulus bill and ACA were what they could get passed through congress, not their preferred policy solutions to these problems.
At the state level a number of GOP-controlled states have cut state spending and employment dramatically, closed schools, slashed income taxes for the wealthy and replaced them with sales taxes, undertaken targeted campaigns to destroy local unions (both public and private sector), etc.
Anyhow, inre his original
> national leadership has not done anything to address it
Obama and the Democrats have been trying hard to push for more infrastructure spending, improved childcare, more money to bail out struggling state governments, minimum wage increases, more parental leave, continuing fixes to the healthcare system, reduced prescription drug prices, relief for the heavily indebted, etc., but (a) they’ve faced unprecedented obstructionism and deliberate dysfunction from the GOP (for instance states refusing federal money for medicare expansion and trying to sabotage the ACA), and (b) these are difficult problems which can’t be solved by waving a wand and uttering a magic incantation.
The auto industry bailout and stimulus bill and ACA were what they could get passed through congress, not their preferred policy solutions to these problems.
At the state level a number of GOP-controlled states have cut state spending and employment dramatically, closed schools, slashed income taxes for the wealthy and replaced them with sales taxes, undertaken targeted campaigns to destroy local unions (both public and private sector), etc.