Comment on Looks like Trump voters won’t ever be happy with a Biden economy
silence7@slrpnk.net 2 years agoI don’t think they’re ignoring it at all; witness things like extending employee benefits to a lot of gig workers. It’s that they’ll never get credit for improving peoples lives no matter what they do.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It’s still legal to pay someone seven bucks an hour in nearly half of the US states.
It’s not insignificant that all our Federal Government does is broker and profit off wars.
silence7@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
Changing that requires a 60/100 supermajority in the Senate. The Democrats haven’t had that in a long time.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Obama had it and all he did was make health care more expensive.
silence7@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
He slowed the rate of health care cost increases, and got ~9% of the population which couldn’t get insurance to be able to get it. This is incredibly visible in a graph of coverage rates over time:
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The Democrats also took advantage of their supermajority to raise the minimum wage from $5.85/hour to where it is today.
You’re just trolling at this point.