Democrats we need to change the focus towards jobs and unions

[Weatherman2020]

Democrats we need to change the focus towards jobs and unions! Lets fight for better pay for the workers, decrease income inequality and enforcement of our anti-trust laws.

Right now a few big businesses are buying out all small businesses and breaking unions. We need to stop this...

If we don't refocus on this then we're asking to lose the next election.

Democrats crazy taxes and policies have done a remarkable job killing unions.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Democrats we need to change the focus towards jobs and unions! Lets fight for better pay for the workers, decrease income inequality and enforcement of our anti-trust laws.

Right now a few big businesses are buying out all small businesses and breaking unions. We need to stop this...

If we don't refocus on this then we're asking to lose the next election.

I have to hand it to the devious republicans who came up with the tax scam....

Most of the hurt to the middle class will be felt AFTER the 2018 midterms; hopefully, voters (even many within the slow-witted red states) will see through the fog of propaganda.

It's amazing how devious they're. Trump ran on stopping outsourcing, economy and middle class platform but it turns out that he lied. The guys pure scum.

This needs to be pointed out!

You can keep your doctor.

 

[MarathonMike]

No doubt in 2018 there will be an insincere blitz of ads telling us how the Democrats are fighting for the working class. The Democrats still think the American public is stooopid and they can get by with their Media disinformation campaigns.

 

[Weatherman2020]

No doubt in 2018 there will be an insincere blitz of ads telling us how the Democrats are fighting for the working class. The Democrats still think the American public is stooopid and they can get by with their Media disinformation campaigns.

While they defend higher taxes.

 

[theHawk]

Democrats we need to change the focus towards jobs and unions! Lets fight for better pay for the workers, decrease income inequality and enforcement of our anti-trust laws.

Right now a few big businesses are buying out all small businesses and breaking unions. We need to stop this...

If we don't refocus on this then we're asking to lose the next election.

No, you should keep on your same message: Pro-Islamic lunacy, open borders, white privilege, hating cops, and queers queers queers. That’s what the Dems are all about.

 

[nat4900]

You can keep your doctor.

Millions and millions have kept their doctors.....Sorry that your sorry ass could not.

 

[Weatherman2020]

You can keep your doctor.

Millions and millions have kept their doctors.....Sorry that your sorry ass could not.

Why does the Left always require lies?

 

[usmbguest5318]

Democrats we need to change the focus towards jobs and unions! Lets fight for better pay for the workers, decrease income inequality and enforcement of our anti-trust laws.

Right now a few big businesses are buying out all small businesses and breaking unions. We need to stop this...

If we don't refocus on this then we're asking to lose the next election.

fight for better pay for the workers

While I'm not keen on minimum wage statutes, I am willing to forebear them insofar as they help keep increases in price of labor somewhat in line with the various product and service prices employers routinely increase every year. Were employers, firms, to roughly match rate of their product/service price increases (and/or price non-increases) to the rate of their wage increases, I'd fully oppose minimum wage statutes.

For example:

​

One can see from the charts above that the inflation adjusted price of a burger has increased by nearly 272% since 1985 yet wages have not come close to increasing at that rate since 1985. Indeed, the inflation adjusted minimum wage increase between 1985 and 2014 was zero percent.

Now, I'm very stridently an economic positivist; thus I principally oppose price floors. Accordingly, strongly prefer initiatives help that individuals alter their wage rates by obtaining notably less commoditized skills and, in turn, selling them. That said, I recognize that in a culture pervaded by firm avarice that outstrips firm responsibility/equity to the communities firms serve and becomes manifest by the above described extreme disparity in rates of implemented price increases, well, it then becomes incumbent upon the government to act. Enacting a price floor for wages is certainly a fast and "easy" fix to the normative disparity; however, it's not the fix I prefer because doing so distorts the market.

decrease income inequality

As you might glean, I don't have a problem with income (resource) inequality in the abstract. To wit, it doesn't bother me in the least that there are people who earn vastly more than I do. Neither does it trouble me that there are people who earn vastly more than the median wage. The only thing that disturbs me regarding income inequality is that there are full-time workers who are not paid enough to sustain themselves.

Income inequality is inherent to a capitalist economy and I'm very much a capitalist. Not only is that inequality inherent, careful examination of economic history reveals that it is also among a capitalist economy's essential traits if societal advancement is to occur. (Note the following two documents are provided with the intention that their central findings be taken together. The first paper posits a hypothesis and the economically rational basis for the proposition's plausibility. The second paper provides empirical support for the hypothesis' accuracy.)

• Inequality and Wealth Creation in Ancient History: Malthus’ Theory Reconsidered
  
• Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica

That said, the free hand of the market must be the engine that effects income inequality. Just as I generally oppose governments implementing price floors because of the market distortions they cause, I also oppose governments enacting subsidies (direct and indirect) because they, like price floors, distort the market.

Therein is found the thematic crux of my normative economics: the government should, IMO, be "hands-off" with regard to both the least and most advantaged among us. In short, the tax code should be used for one and only one purpose -- to produce revenue -- and regulations should exist only insofar as they protect public resources. Too, normative notions are, IMO, the purview of jurisprudence, not regulatory policy.

enforcement of our anti-trust laws

As you might imagine, I'm vexed about anti-trust laws, which really are just policy regulations that have been given the force of law. Economically, I oppose anti-trust laws/policies because sooner or later someone will "invent a better mousetrap" and the "current" monopolists (those operating in industries that are not natural monopolies) will lose their unchallenged primacy as a result.

a few big businesses are buying out all small businesses and breaking unions. We need to stop this...

Unions are another thing that I don't oppose provided they exist in a laissez faire, "hands-off," economic environment. All the same, there are industries in which there is little, if any, need for unions. My industry, professional services consulting is one such example. It's not at all uncommon for prospective workers to negotiate terms of their employment, most typically their wages, though in some instances other characteristics are what prospective workers haggle for.

If we don't refocus on this then we're asking to lose the next election.

Though I care not about the wins and losses either major party may sustain, I suspect you are correct that Democrats need more than their current "hook" as the raison d'etre, if you will, for garnering enough votes to win elections. Social issues are important, but I suspect most voters see them as materially less important than economic ones. Sadly, however, most voters also construe economic policy as a matter of opinion even though they have little or no formal training in the science of economics.

Note:

That's not to imply that "a little" formal training in economics is sufficient for accurately and soundly evaluating the economics of matters that confront us. Having a degree in economics, I'd say that one needs to master the content in five courses to be well enough informed to, as a citizen, soundly assess the impacts of economic public policy.

• Microeconomic Theory I
  
• Macroeconomic Theory I
  
• Advanced Macroeconomic Theory I
  
• Behavioral Economics
  
• Public Finance I

 

[JGalt]

Last I heard, the labor unions are supporting Donald Trump

Unions disappointed, but not surprised by Trump decision to disband ...
Federal News Radio › Your Job › Workforce › Unions
Oct 2, 2017 - After several months of silence on the topic, President Donald Trump did what many federal unions thought was inevitable: He disbanded a formal advisory panel designed to create and foster partnerships between labor and agency management. His decision to eliminate the National Council on Federal ...

No Surprise: Trump Is a Union Buster at His Own Hotel | The Nation

Trump launches war on unions - POLITICO

Quoting liberal-biased opinion pieces hammered out by some left-wing activist hacks who were paid by left-wing propaganda websites, doesn't necessarily mean that they have an ounce of truth.

Your sources have been relegated to the shit pile containing the other "fake news" propaganda hit pieces. We all know by now how you fuckers are fond of lying. Your dishonesty goes as far back as anyone can remember.

 

[nat4900]

Your sources have been relegated to the shit pile containing the other "fake news" propaganda hit pieces. We all know by now how you fuckers are fond of lying. Your dishonesty goes as far back as anyone can remember.

LOL

 

[PredFan]

Yeah, go ahead and do that. Claim you want jobs. Say JOBS JOBS JOBS over and over. Then everyone will see all the jobs that Trump has created.

Go ahead and push unions. That ship has sailed.

Apparently you didn't get the memo. Your party has abandoned the middle class and Middle America. They are going after immigrants and minorities. they don't care about the middle class anymore.

 

[BluesLegend]

Democrats we need to change the focus towards jobs and unions!

Said no elected Democrat in the past 8 years

 

[nat4900]

Said no elected Democrat in the past 8 years

Democrats win Virginia election night and send Trump and Trumpism ...

With Virginia, Voters Give Democrats First Big Wins of the Trump Era ...

 

[BluesLegend]

Said no elected Democrat in the past 8 years

Democrats win Virginia election night and send Trump and Trumpism ...

With Virginia, Voters Give Democrats First Big Wins of the Trump Era ...

Hillary Clinton wins Virginia by 5 points, Trump still whoops her ass humiliating her.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Yeah, go ahead and do that. Claim you want jobs. Say JOBS JOBS JOBS over and over. Then everyone will see all the jobs that Trump has created.

Go ahead and push unions. That ship has sailed.

Apparently you didn't get the memo. Your party has abandoned the middle class and Middle America. They are going after immigrants and minorities. they don't care about the middle class anymore.

Job creation has slowed by by more than 1/4 since Trump took office as compared to the previous 48 months.

Also, as I am sure you said 1000 times in the last few years, Presidents do not create jobs, not a single one.

 

[Avatar4321]

but pushing for men with mental issues to use the women's room has been doing so well for you

 

[PredFan]

Yeah, go ahead and do that. Claim you want jobs. Say JOBS JOBS JOBS over and over. Then everyone will see all the jobs that Trump has created.

Go ahead and push unions. That ship has sailed.

Apparently you didn't get the memo. Your party has abandoned the middle class and Middle America. They are going after immigrants and minorities. they don't care about the middle class anymore.

Job creation has slowed by by more than 1/4 since Trump took office as compared to the previous 48 months.

Also, as I am sure you said 1000 times in the last few years, Presidents do not create jobs, not a single one.

They don't. But they create a climate for business. Obama created a hostile business climate, Trump is a friend of business. That's why the economy is thriving now.

Learn something would ya?

 

[Natural Citizen]

Democrats we need to change the focus towards jobs and unions! Lets fight for better pay for the workers, decrease income inequality and enforcement of our anti-trust laws.

Right now a few big businesses are buying out all small businesses and breaking unions. We need to stop this...

If we don't refocus on this then we're asking to lose the next election.

fight for better pay for the workers

While I'm not keen on minimum wage statutes, I am willing to forebear them insofar as they help keep increases in price of labor somewhat in line with the various product and service prices employers routinely increase every year. Were employers, firms, to roughly match rate of their product/service price increases (and/or price non-increases) to the rate of their wage increases, I'd fully oppose minimum wage statutes.

For example:

​

One can see from the charts above that the inflation adjusted price of a burger has increased by nearly 272% since 1985 yet wages have not come close to increasing at that rate since 1985. Indeed, the inflation adjusted minimum wage increase between 1985 and 2014 was zero percent.

Now, I'm very stridently an economic positivist; thus while I principally oppose price floors. Accordingly, strongly prefer initiatives help that individuals alter their wage rates by obtaining notably less commoditized skills and, in turn, selling them. That said, I recognize that in a culture pervaded by firm avarice that outstrips firm responsibility/equity to the communities firms serve and becomes manifest by the above described extreme disparity in rates of implemented price increases, well, it then becomes incumbent upon the government to act. Enacting a price floor for wages is certainly a fast and "easy" fix to the normative disparity; however, it's not the fix I prefer because doing so distorts the market.

decrease income inequality

As you might glean, I don't have a problem with income (resource) inequality in the abstract. To wit, it doesn't bother me in the least that there are people who earn vastly more than I do. Neither does it trouble me that there are people who earn vastly more than the median wage. The only thing that disturbs me regarding income inequality is that there are full-time workers who are not paid enough to sustain themselves.

Income inequality is inherent to a capitalist economy and I'm very much a capitalist. Not only is that inequality inherent, careful examination of economic history reveals that it is also among a capitalist economy's essential traits if societal advancement is to occur. (Note the following two documents are provided with the intention that their central findings be taken together. The first paper posits a hypothesis and the economically rational basis for the proposition's plausibility. The second paper provides empirical support for the hypothesis' accuracy.)

• Inequality and Wealth Creation in Ancient History: Malthus’ Theory Reconsidered
  
• Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica

That said, the free hand of the market must be the engine that effects income inequality. Just as I generally oppose governments implementing price floors because of the market distortions they cause, I also oppose governments enacting subsidies (direct and indirect) because they, like price floors, distort the market.

Therein is found the thematic crux of my normative economics: the government should, IMO, be "hands-off" with regard to both the least and most advantaged among us. In short, the tax code should be used for one and only one purpose -- to produce revenue -- and regulations should exist only insofar as they protect public resources. Too, normative notions are, IMO, the purview of jurisprudence, not regulatory policy.

enforcement of our anti-trust laws

As you might imagine, I'm vexed about anti-trust laws, which really are just policy regulations that have been given the force of law. Economically, I oppose anti-trust laws/policies because sooner or later someone will "invent a better mousetrap" and the "current" monopolists (those operating in industries that are not natural monopolies) will lose their unchallenged primacy as a result.

a few big businesses are buying out all small businesses and breaking unions. We need to stop this...

Unions are another thing that I don't oppose provided they exist in a laissez faire, "hands-off," economic environment. All the same, there are industries in which there is little, if any, need for unions. My industry, professional services consulting is one such example. It's not at all uncommon for prospective workers to negotiate terms of their employment, most typically their wages, though in some instances other characteristics are what prospective workers haggle for.

If we don't refocus on this then we're asking to lose the next election.

Though I care not about the wins and losses either major party may sustain, I suspect you are correct that Democrats need more than their current "hook" as the raison d'etre, if you will, for garnering enough votes to win elections. Social issues are important, but I suspect most voters see them as materially less important than economic ones. Sadly, however, most voters also construe economic policy as a matter of opinion even though they have little or no formal training in the science of economics.

Note:

That's not to imply that "a little" formal training in economics is sufficient for accurately and soundly evaluating the economics of matters that confront us. Having a degree in economics, I'd say that one needs to master the content in five courses to be well enough informed to, as a citizen, soundly assess the impacts of economic public policy.

• Microeconomic Theory I
  
• Macroeconomic Theory I
  
• Advanced Macroeconomic Theory I
  
• Behavioral Economics
  
• Public Finance I

We don't have capitalism. We have Keynesianism. There is a problem in definitions and understanding of what kind of monetary policy we have.

Agreed, however, that people really do need to learn economic theory. I don't even like the use of the word capitalism. I like free markets. But we don't have that. We have economic interventionism. We have a planned economy. We have a welfare state. We have inflationism. We have central economic planning by a central bank. We have a belief in deficit financing. It is so far removed from free market capitalism that it's foolish for people to label it as such. That is a problem

By the way, inflation correctly defined is the increase in the suppy of currency and credit. Price increases are only one consequence of that increase in the suppy of currency and credit.

You all are trying to solve symptoms instead of the root problem. And in doing so, all that will happen is you'll support compounding the root problem.

Then again, some of our more clever friends will always capitalize on the shortcoming in understanding definitions and say oh, we know it’s so bad what we need is socialism.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Yeah, go ahead and do that. Claim you want jobs. Say JOBS JOBS JOBS over and over. Then everyone will see all the jobs that Trump has created.

Go ahead and push unions. That ship has sailed.

Apparently you didn't get the memo. Your party has abandoned the middle class and Middle America. They are going after immigrants and minorities. they don't care about the middle class anymore.

Job creation has slowed by by more than 1/4 since Trump took office as compared to the previous 48 months.

Also, as I am sure you said 1000 times in the last few years, Presidents do not create jobs, not a single one.

They don't. But they create a climate for business. Obama created a hostile business climate, Trump is a friend of business. That's why the economy is thriving now.

Learn something would ya?

If Obama created a hostile business climate and Trump is a friend of business why has job creation slowed significantly since Jan as compared to the previous 48 months?

 

[Vastator]

Democrats we need to change the focus towards jobs and unions! Lets fight for better pay for the workers, decrease income inequality and enforcement of our anti-trust laws.

Right now a few big businesses are buying out all small businesses and breaking unions. We need to stop this...

If we don't refocus on this then we're asking to lose the next election.

And promise minorities a bunch of stuff too

I wonder if all the free shit, will still be free flowing once whites become the minority...?