I read this article yesterday and in the back of my mind I thought 'I bet RazorX will probably post this'. I was wrong there but it did make the board.
I would have responded sooner but I really did want to see how many times Desh could respond to her own post before someone else jumped in. I'm not trying to be mean it's just a different posting style.
The reason I thought RazorX would have posted this was he would have thanked Obama for these numbers considering Obama has been in office five years now. Desh turned this into the Republicans doing however. When Desh said these people vote Republican I'm assuming she meant the poor white people because the article mentions poor racial and ethnic minorities. I can't imagine she is now claiming they vote Republican.
We've heard for years from all people, but especially those on the left, that we need to reduce our military spending. Well here we had made reductions to our military spending and the complaint is now about lost jobs.
I also find it difficult to wrap my brain around the idea that we are practicing austerity in the U.S. while running a $600 billion deficit. I'd hate to see what actual austerity looked like.
And Desh for stating you want to talk about all the facts I notice you left out the effects the tax increases had played on the economy and chose to focus solely on reductions in spending.
Leaving all that aside I read the comments section of the article yesterday and many posters attempted to point at the free trade agreements signed by the U.S. starting with NAFTA. I've always believed that our country will not grow economically by closing off or limiting our borders to trade. However that has moved our economy into a more service oriented role from a more manufacturing one. I believe this will continue to push our economic prosperity higher as a whole but it does lead to more disparate income disparities. Adding a dollar or two to the minimum wage sounds nice and all but that isn't going to do anything about reducing inequality.
We've had this discussion on the board before. One topic being do we alter our education system to emphasize more learning in a particular trade skill to help make someone more employable among other ideas?
Lol, you have reached your apex. racist X thanked your post!