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Sonny, your postings on this website have taught us all about how little you know about anything.
Agree. Opin has way too much free time to post consistently on this message board during working hours if he was employed in private industry. I suspect he is a government, union employee. He is on my ignore list.
Meet Joe Schmo. Joe is 53 years old. Joe was a laborer in the factory all his life, like his father before him. Joe has been a loyal Republican voter since he could vote.
Joe's factory closed up, as millions of manufacturing jobs were outsourced. Joe was fortunate enough to find a job in the labor union. Unfortunately, Joe's politicians thought it was best if corporations had more rights, so Joe's state became a right to work state. Over the next few years, Joe's union had trouble retaining membership and eventually ceased to exist completely.
Joe is a hard worker, but he hasn't received a raise since the union closed up. The company he found work with was facing some financial problems, so Joe was laid off. It appears Joe's skills aren't as diverse as the market requires, because he has no higher education or additional training. Joe goes down to the unemployment office and files for unemployment and food stamps. Unfortunatley, the governor in Joe's state signed a bill cutting unemployment and food stamps, because the state can't support leeches. Joe decides to sell his house and car, as he is no longer able to make the payments.
Joe moves into an apartment of modest means, and is forced to take public transportation as he looks for a job. The public transportation has reduced hours of service, due to cuts from the state and local government. It appears they are cutting funding for transit so they can divert the funds for highway expansion. A local initiative to build a light rail in Joe's city was defeated by local and state officials, as it was deemed unnecessary spending.
Joe finally lands a few minimum wage jobs at walmart and McDonalds. Between jobs, he is studying to take up a new career. However, minimum wage hasn't raised in a few years. Local politicans are resisting a hike in the minimum wage, fearing inflation. Joe takes the bus to vote on the new ballot initiative regarding minimum wage. Unfortunately, polling hours have been reduced so Joe has to miss work to vote. Joe is a responsible, once-Republican voter, so he takes the steps to get a new ID just to vote. Joe has been following all the things his former party did to make his life more difficult, so he finally musters up the courage to vote for a different party. Unfortunately, Joe's move to a low-income neighborhood put him in a gerrymandered district. Unfortunately, Joe's state politicians captured another supermajority from the other 9 districts in the state...
That you think that more of what causes all the things you complain about is the answer reveals you understand precisely nothing at all about economics, business, employment, or government.
His factory closed up because its was no longer competitive and no one wanted to buy it to continue or reform it. He has to realize that many former third world workers suffer for years after most of the world was destroyed in WWII. They now have the fastest growing middle class. Nothing to do with democrats or republicans. One only has to study Europe to see what ever increasing tax to fund larger government brings about in closures a because creating competitive problems. They replaced someone else when they were having their good times.
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