Then why can’t I find a fucking job?!
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And Trump is going to manage to ruin it to benefit a few old rich monsters.
At this point I'm done blaming Trump.
This is on idiot Americans.
Too many of us are braindead stupid. Trump can live or die, won't change that.
Our politics and politicians are a reflection of the people of this nation's desires and level of intelligence.
Full agree. We asked for everything we get.
As fucked as our system is, we ultimately still choose our representatives. We do.
So it's literally no one's fault but our own who ends up in Washington.
If every citizen just spent 2-3 hours looking up information about the people on the ballot right before voting and ingested the information in a non-partisan way, and reacted reasonably, we would literally be living in an undeniably better world.
Yes and no. There's going to be thousands of agriculture etc jobs opening up under him. The problem is there won't be willing or qualified applicants.
Which will at once increase demand for labor. Thus increasing costs for oligarchs. But at the same time throw a monkey wrench into basic supply chains. Causing shortages and crises. He's literally going to hurt everyone. But we all knew that.
The oligarch are just going to raise prices. The farmer is going to get boned. I expect that to take a bit though, he's vengeful he's going to start with blue states and cities first. So life gets worse for Dem areas first then Dems can be blamed for it as the effects spread to Red areas. Not any different from the Covid response.
That will absolutely be their first course of action. The problem with it being. They are near pricing themselves out of the market on many things as is. Quite a lot of inflation has been because of Market control and collusion. Not actual increase in costs. Consumers are struggling currently. Pushing at any harder very likely could cause collapse. Not that many oligarchs won't. They're that out of touch.
You mean like what's been happening?
And all these idiots voted trump "for the economy"
"bUsInEsS mAn MaKe AmErIcA bUsInEsS"
Monkeys would be better at electing representatives than Americans are.
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As someone actively applying to jobs:
Bullshit. What "jobs?" Part time roles at Wal Mart???
These reports now include gig jobs so yeah. I'd like to see how many of these are just people picking up a second (or third, or fourth) job to make ends meet
Exactly! Every time they report this bs, I think “how many provide a living wage?” Hope you find something soon
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Democrats improve economy (historically statistical fact).
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Idiot Americans don't have all their wishes granted so they get mad and vote Republican.
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Democrats hand improved economy off to Republicans.
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Republicans fuck it up and hand it back off to Democrats.
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Rinse and repeat.
Idiot Americans don’t have all their wishes granted so they get mad and vote Republican.
No, people get apathetic and stay home. Next time don't promise shit you have no intention of delivering.
You forgot
- Corporate media and Republicans spend their entire term blaming Democrats for ruining the economy despite Republicans being actively in charge
- Dumb fucks believe them
You forgot:
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Republicans try to privatize previously public programs and institutions they intentionally destroyed for the benefit of their rich shareholders.
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Tax cuts for corporations, pay raises for Congress, handouts and government contracts to their rich oligarch friends.
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Start new territorial wars to capture more resources. Profit from the sales of weapons and military funding.
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Create another trillion dollars of debt and print some money to cover the interest costs thus raising inflation and blaming it on the Democrats who are not even in charge.
As always, democrat leaves solid economy, Republican comes in and trashes it then at the end claims that initial sturdy economy was all the Republicans.
Don't worry though, trump will toss all this off a cliff so hard that we'll be in a deep recessi by this time next year
What seems to be weird is that "the market" is reacting to this news as if it is bad. From what I gather, it's because they aren't going to get the cheap money they were hoping for (meaning, slashing interest rates, again) because the Fed isn't likely to race to cut them because of jobs?
So now the Dow and S&P are sharply down today...
Pretty much yeah. They want there to simultaneously be a healthy and robust economy (to maximize those sales numbers) while also having a terrible labor market to minimize labor costs. Low unemployment means that employees can be picky about job offers, while rampant unemployment means they're more likely to accept extreme low-ball offers. Nevermind that those two are directly linked and it's impossible to achieve both at the same time. Not that the way capitalism is done in the US has ever been sane, logical, or sustainable. Line must go up right?
"Sure, the current bus driver fixed the sugar in our gas tank, replaced our flat tires, and got us on the road again. But I still think we should give the previous driver another chance—he promised to drive us to Greenland!"
And watch Trump and the Republicans dip their hands into the work of Democrats to add more into the debt.
Trump: hmmm what should I fuck up first???
Great jobs report = stock market dives. Apparently.
Don't worry. Good ol' Trumperina will find a way to say that he did that.
Don't worry, donvict aims to fix that, because I keep getting told this is the worst economy ever, eggs cost 20 times what they used to, etc.
I wonder what the Enlightened Centrists (TM) and the dumbfucks that voted for donvict will be saying if/when donvict starts making things actually terrible.
I'm assuming idiot Americans will do what they always do and blame the party that is historically better for our economy, has a voting record of voting in favor of the middle/lower classes, hasn't stripped half of Americans of a federally protected human right, and has WAY less convicted criminals in their ranks.
Americans = Stupid
As is tradition, they will blame Democrats for the effects of policies chosen by Republicans
Sturdy doesn't mean it's stable or affordable. Second record high of homelessness, higher than last years record high by 18%, 33% increase since 2020. Credit default through the roof, auto repossession through the roof, 53% of renters can't afford rent. He's handing trump a shitty economy which will likely continue to get worse.
Yeah I mean it's not like inflation was managed well or anything. It's worse than it was when he (Biden), got in. No, wait... my mistake
It’s mostly the tech industry who is suffering this year.
We're less than 2 weeks into the year.
Crap I mean 2024