| President Barack Obama blamed congressional Republicans on Tuesday for blocking his efforts to address the economic concerns of the American people before President-elect Donald Trump and others exploited it for political gain. “And frankly that was — that's been my agenda for the last eight years,” Obama said at a joint news conference with Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens. “I think raising wages, investing in infrastructure, making sure that people have access to good education that equip them for the jobs of the future, those are all agenda items that would help alleviate some of the economic fractures and dislocations that people are experiencing.” Obama noted that despite congressional intransigence, his approval rating remains high. Maybe Americans “just wanted to shake things up,” the president mused as he sought to explain why Trump won the election despite his popularity and the fact, he said, that people are “indisputably better off.” As for whether Trump's voters will now get what they want, Obama said it's too soon to say. “Time will now tell whether the prescriptions being offered, whether Brexit or with respect to the U.S. election, ends up actually satisfying those people who have been fearful or angry or concerned,” Obama said. “Those folks who voted for the president-elect are better off than they were when I came into office, for the most part. But we'll see whether those facts affect people's calculations in the next election.” http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/obama-congress-trump-voters-231409 lets just hope that the poor voters (which is the majority) of Trump voters will get what they expected, but ye im skeptical if they will get the improvements they want |
| A lot of trump voters don't want the minimum wage to go up. It should match inflation but artificial increases generally just hurts the economy. As far as investing in infrastructure goes, talk is cheap, and we haven't seen action for years. And the actions he's taken for education has largely hurt our education. He can say that he's attempted to do all these things, but if that's really the case, then he's just done a bad job at it. |
| Sounds somewhat disingenuous if you ask me. Neither party has been (or will be) gung-ho about helping the working class. I wouldn't be shocked if anything Obama tried to pass that would have helped the working class (if he did push anything) would have been blocked by Republicans in congress (and probably many Democrats as well), but had the roles been reversed, Democrats in Congress would have blocked anything a Republican president tried to push through as well. However I will call bull shit on either party really making an effort, both are very economically conservative, and more interested in protecting and even helping the interests of big business rather than improving the situation of the working class. The fact that when people get political, they instantly jump to cultural issues like Gun Control or Abortion, instead of economic concerns is why this whole farce is so toxic, you know that in the back rooms both parties are having a massive orgy on stacks of money while the American people truly believe the two parties are battling each other. |
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| @Thrashinuva Yeah increasing minimum wage only makes the United States even more uncompetitive in the global markets as well as hurting middle class and lower class businesses that can't afford paying 5-10 employees 15 dollars an hour. |
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Thrashinuva said: A lot of trump voters don't want the minimum wage to go up. It should match inflation but artificial increases generally just hurts the economy. As far as investing in infrastructure goes, talk is cheap, and we haven't seen action for years. And the actions he's taken for education has largely hurt our education. He can say that he's attempted to do all these things, but if that's really the case, then he's just done a bad job at it. I think raising wages is pretty retarded anyway, and it was one of the main reasons i wasn't exactly thrilled with Bernie's economics. They'd help the poor much more by subsidizing necessities like food, utilities, and overall, reducing the cost of living for the poor. Raising the minimum wage does the opposite because you'll just end up raising the cost of living and force those who don't have a stable income source into comming up with more money. Unless their plan is to force more people onto welfare, which is exactly what raising the minimum wage drastically will end up doing. |
| Seattle have increase their minimum wage and there is no negative effect Minimum-wage opponents who claim that increases will cripple local economies, either overall or even in their low-wage sectors, thus get no help from the Seattle results. The study’s authors point out that one challenge in teasing out minimum-wage effects was that the Seattle economy “boomed” over this period, posting growth rates that “tripled the national average” and “outpaced Seattle’s own robust performance in recent years.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/08/10/so-far-the-seattle-minimum-wage-increase-is-doing-what-its-supposed-to-do/ |
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