And who CHOSE not to offer ANY policies to improve job security?? But wait; it wasn’t her fault, right?!
JIM: you had it right in the 90s! Go back to the chalkboard and write “It’s the Economy Stupid” 1,000 times!
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“What are you talking about? The economy improved!”
NOT ENOUGH! (when you’re a paycheck away from ruin…) And corporations were not inclined to have largess with workers to insure a win of the election. I would argue they will never give up anything now; they believe an astroturf media landscape will insure their hegemony. The other side wins? We’ll invest in offshore assets and wait +2 to +4 years…
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Thank you for posting this, this is exactly what I’ve been trying to say! COVID brought to households with lower incomes (i.e., about 60% of us) inflation that hit hard, jobs that are increasing while wages are stagnant or even lowering, health insurance and costs continuing to skyrocket, and an increase in debt that seems insurmountable. Not to mention the added costs of exponentially higher rates of depression, anxiety, and addiction.
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I gotta say: I can’t picture ANY Dem fighting for this. Bernie? Yeah, but then technically he is not a “Dem”.
This has what are called in economics “multiplier effects” on the domestic economy; foreign workers expatriate their wages -they don’t buy much here.
For corporate Dems, it’s all about the game of terrorizing workers with a musical chairs of unemployment. Cheap non-living wage labor means more profits for the corporate blackhole of profit, ultimately more accumulation of capital for one-percenters (like: Musk…)
Yo, Bernie: we doing an Independent alliance with petitions to ballot? Or not?? Gotta get started soon for 2026. If you enlist Professor Stieglitz, he can attest to the fact that this is bad for the domestic economy…
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I guess now MAGA has the chance to learn what happens when you let the blind lead the deaf.
AHEM…
(the raison d’etre of this topic’s title!)
We have come to a fork in the road; the corporate owners of the Dems would rather sit out a term to the Repubs and come back in four-eight years than give up some profits to induce voter support from workers. The corporate owners have at this point effectively locked out those with a pro-working class agenda.
Kiss the Dem Party goodbye (Harris not offering anything to workers…); kiss the Repub Party goodbye (the worker visa betrayal -but ALSO done by the Dems!)
Independent alliance organized by Sanders. Get the petitions rolling for 2026; At least 50 representative candidates for the House, focused by means of a signed commitment to a shortlist of working class issues (including healthcare, reducing toxic ecological conditions, and advancing transparency in political process…) We don’t have to win that many seats. If we get a fraction of that, with a split house that will be a decisive power faction for workers. If an Independent candidate runs against their signed commitment, have a good HOUSEkeeping committee chuck him/her out of the alliance, and cut off funding from the alliance…
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Teamsters president says: “It was the Economy, Stupid…”
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SHEER propaganda, crafted by Trumpers who want to chill you out since we are now in dangerous waters. There is no way they can transition from “Just In Time” to warehousing on their supply chains. Warehousing is expensive now thanks to private equity inflating real estate.
There’s going to be a whole lot of Just NOT In Time!
Here comes the civil unrest…here comes the use of the military as a domestic police force…here comes the FULL banana republic.
He does realize that adjective can be used to describe a negative outcome; right? I mean, the Hindenburg explosion was also “spectacular”, right??
Also, brought to you by the people with a mob mentality:
(the article has a paywall, but the preview should give you sufficient info…)
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I guess CNBC will need to make some more videos on how US business can weather tariffs.
I figured it would be more than that -but don’t worry; that will be coming.
I hope the Canadians stand up to this mobster action; it’s disgraceful, after many, many years of their cooperation with us. It’s as if the move against them was engineered by Putin himself.
You can have some issues with Mexico (and there are good counterarguments…); but treating Canada identically to Mexico is just LUDICROUS. It’s a desperate mugging for money.
There appears to be some juvenile transference issues in play, because Stupid Hitler’s personality does not mix with Trudeau’s. An adult would recognize that a leader -who’s on his way out, I might add- does not always reflect the behavior nor beliefs of all its citizens.
Dobbs knows that’s surely the case for America right now!
Counting down the days to when Hegseth calls out the military for a domestic police action to address civil unrest and we get a full banana republic. Thanks for those comforting words at the Repub Convention, Vance, that “The Republic” would be preserved under Trump.
Hey, corporations who pushed for Harris’ serf pitch to working class voters; happy you got those low corporate tax rates now? You clowns will be paying MULTIPLES of that for this Joker. Just couldn’t throw some bones from your profit pool to induce voters to vote Dem, could you? [Though I readily concede Harris’ inaction on Israel was a nightmare -not that you corporations cared about that! There was nothing to inspire voters that she would tone down ongoing global conflicts…]
PS The case for Canada needing to be tariffed:
You just can’t tell me it’s not about a revenge trip with Trudeau! And the irony is MOST Canadians want an alternative to Trudeau now, but Stupid Hitler doesn’t care a hoot about that -“I’ll get my Trudeau revenge one way or the other!” He is going to get a blowtorch coming back at him from the Canadians about the injustice of this move…
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When at least 26,000 people die annually from lack of healthcare, we should stop saying the economy is good. “Good” means we’ve guaranteed healthcare and education. “Great” means we guarantee all human rights to all citizens. Morality comes first.
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According to Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All Fact Sheet 2023, “While 68,000 Americans die each year because they lack access to the health care they desperately need, the seven major health insurance companies in America made over $69 billion in profits last year – up 287 percent since 2012.”
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I’m happy to stand corrected.
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When CNBC allows a story like this to be shown, you KNOW all hell is about to break loose!
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When those that wish to push through tax cuts are doing so by saying our debt to income is unstainable. In the very same breath advocate tax cuts for the top of the economic ladder. They also have a long desire to defund the IRS, at the same time the IRS has never been equipped to enforce tax law on this same group of people. It is really obvious greed is their creed, they are morally bankrupt.
Remember when Ireland banned speculation by banks. Removed investment bankers ability to operate as they did, their economy boomed counter cyclically in the headwinds of regional recession.
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A reporter should ask the white house that if they take over Canada, if they are going to keep Canada’s health care. Or will they come up with a concept of a plan that will be better.
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That brought a laugh. TY.
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I will use the NY Post’s own video against them
This “we’re just going through a period of transition” thing sounds like the old gallows-humor joke: “The operation was a success, but the patient died…”
Speaking of gallows: