Comment on Looks like Trump voters won’t ever be happy with a Biden economy
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 years agoIt’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.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It’s hard to pretend that this is actually a good thing in a country where that only matters if you can absorb being price gouged, and tens of millions of Americans can’t.
Only if you can absorb being price-gouged for it, and tens of millions can’t afford a sudden bill.
And they haven’t done anything since, for which they deserve full credit, especially when homelessness grew by 12% last year.
I’m not trolling. I’m just not willing to pretend that the Democrats are doing anything meaningful at this point.