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Wages have not kept pace with such mandatory spending such as food, shelter, energy and medical care. Maybe if you stretch really hard you can find a way to blame this 30 year trend on the party that is not actively involved in attacking the minimum wage, union membership, higher education and reacting in horror to any and all protectionist measures.
Yeah blame republicans, stock answer from you. Food, has skyrocketted up since the ehtanol disaster. Remember alternate energy and we were the next Brazil.....ooooooops.....all it did was jack food prices....another unintended consequence
Shelter... well what caused house prices to rise?
energy....yeah lets not use coal and oil...you know the CHEAP energy....instead we have to use expensive "green" energy, I want my insandescent CHEAP lightbulb back
Medical care....get rid of lawsuits and make insurance like the phone companies, but instead we have laws that PROHIBIT competition and we need to get it away from being in your job....it should be much more like car insurance in that regard.
Unions raise prices and so does the mw, so I'm not a big fan
I blame this globalization, free market, free trade, trickle down crap that was force fed to a public who really never wanted a lousy unstable service based economy in the first place but had no choice as the good jobs fled to the third world to keep a bunch of fickle stockholders happy and a republican party who threw themselves on every attempt to stem the tide. There are still people who will throw-up in their mouth at the mention of protectionism, especially the US (chinese) chamber of commerce who continue to dictate conservative economics to a collaborative republican party.