PoliTalker (06-23-2021)
PoliTalker (06-23-2021)
--->"Somehow almost half the people work and vote against their own well-being."
Yes. So why would Average Working Class Americans vote for 'Open Borders'? Why would they vote to import cheap Third World Labor to Cut Wages?
(I understand that the 'Chair Jockey Wokesters' won't be effected by this)
In 1967 that one-worker family had a lot lower standard of living than families today. American families could easily get by on one salary if we were willing to live at that standard. Today, families often have two earners because 1) we want more 2) women are more interested in a profession.
If it was because they had to work to pay bills, we would see women with lower incomes working; instead, we see women with college degrees with husbands earning a middle class income who are more likely to work.
Americans today pay less for almost every product than they did years ago--whether adjusted for inflation or actual cost. A large flat screen TV today is less than a 19" color TV in 1980. Americans pay a smaller percentage of their income for food, clothing, transportation than in those years. The only thing we pay more for is housing but that is for a much large home.
Immigration has helped our economy. Immigrants start more businesses than residents. There have been bills to elevate the min wage for many years and the Repubs blocked them. That is how you stop companies from undercutting American workers. https://www.cbpp.org/research/povert...dministrations
PoliTalker (06-23-2021)
PoliTalker (06-23-2021)
Wages are determined by the min wage. Elevate it and all people's wages will go up.
We are far from too crowded. How do you define it, population density? If so, we are no. 185. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...lation_density
Truth is, I know who is taking the people's wealth. It is not immigrants. It is the super-wealthy and the obscene wealth gap shows that.
PoliTalker (06-23-2021)
PoliTalker (06-23-2021)
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox...ulation-growth
Some parts of the US are already beginning to experience some of the downsides of population slowdown or decline: Shrinking tax bases in rural areas have made it harder for government budgets to support essential services, such as infrastructure and public schools. As population growth slows, the pressure for cuts will likely grow. Meanwhile, the existing population will continue to age; by 2030, the Census Bureau estimates that one in five US residents will be of retirement age.
“Slow population growth, at least in the United States and a lot of other developed countries, will become a dire age dependency problem,” William Frey, a senior fellow at the Brooking Institution’s metropolitan policy program, said. “It puts a big strain on the rest of the population.”
PoliTalker (06-23-2021)
A single Wage Earner could buy a Home and raise a Family. The Mother would be there watching the Children. People had 3 or 4 children back then.
Now, you need both Parents working to buy a Home. Now, you need to find some stranger to raise your children. Now, maybe you have one ... two children maximum.
I'm guessing you have no children ... but lots of Toys.
Yes. Spoken as a Government Bureaucrat.
1. I view this as a 'Quality of Life' issue.
2. I also view this as 'American Worker' vs 'Third World Labor' issue.
3. I also view this through a Political lens. Republicans are positioning themselves as 'The Party of the Working Class'. While Democrats are donning the Mantle of Elitists, too aloof to get their hands dirty.
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