But averages don’t tell the full story: Middle-income and lower-income Americans’ wages stopped outpacing inflation last year, according to Bank of America.

As if the first go around wasn’t telling enough. But, hey, at least the plutocracy has another tax cut that they bought and paid for.

  • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world
    412·
    12 hours ago

    Why should the government care since we showed them we didn’t in the last election.

    Elections have consequences

    • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 hours ago

      Biden didn’t raise the minimum wage, either.

      Yes, I know there are “reasons”, but they’re all bullshit and could have been overcome by, say, an FDR or even a Clinton.

      There’s a reason Democratic voter turnout was so low with last election, all these little reasons over the decades add up. Elections have consequences, indeed.

      Independents are now up to 40% of voters, the major parties are bOtH losing voters (30% each now, new low)

        • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          Biden will always be in the bottom 15 of presidents for not crushing MAGA as a National Security Threat after the Insurrection and hundreds of stolen documents, and allowing them to rise and take power again. Trump should have been executed for his treason, or at least put in prison for the rest of his life.

          And they had the Epstein Files, too.

          Unforgivable political malpractice.

      • mycodesucks@lemmy.world
        32·
        5 hours ago

        In a democracy or republic with full voting rights, that’s EXACTLY how it works.

        People get the government they vote for. No more, no less.

        I’m angry at the politicians, of course. But not NEARLY as angry as I am at my countrymen who PUT them there.

        For as much as we constantly hear nonsense bullshit about “blood to water the tree of liberty”, the SINGLE most important aspect of being a citizen of a representative government is being informed about things and making good decisions about your representatives. It’s your FIRST duty as a citizen. But it’s clearly too high a bar for most people to even attempt to meet.

        I’m no fan of the CCP, but when they say that average people can’t be trusted to steer the ship of society, I have to say reality is making a compelling case.