Yeah, the explicit goal and result of generations of Republican policy… Archived Message
Posted by DT on November 14, 2023, 10:50:29, in reply to "A deborking of antitrust jurisprudence would go a long way. But that ship has sailed. *"
…has been to concentrate economic benefits in the hands of capital at the expense of workers. And they continue to actively work to advance this agenda. But because it’s a chance to score short term political points he trots out the issue of wages as if it’s something he or his party care in the slightest about. Previous Message Previous Message I don't actually think that's what he thinks because I doubt he's thought much or at all. Previous Message and they always boil down to "are you really going to tell this anecdotal person how they should feel??" i'll tell this made up person what i said in a previous post in this thread: "Could be better, but I'd say we're doing ok." https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/msg/1699975169.html I'd prefer we be at 2%. I'd prefer we didn't have a worldwide pandemic that killed a bunch of people and stalled everyone's economy for a couple years. I'd prefer if the majority of the inflation wasn't corporations jacking up prices to take advantage of people. But, shit happened and now we're here. And we're doing a better job of digging out of it than our peer countries are at the moment.
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- We're doomed. * - doubledown November 14, 2023, 8:45:32
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