The 2022 State of the Union address highlights a big difference between (typical) Republicans & (typical) Democrats

@mythociate (21432)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
March 3, 2022 7:52am CST
Specifically, where Biden instructs employers on 'how to end inflation': "Lower your costs and not your wages." He also talked about 'signing a new "minimum wage" into law.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTPN1sOkWs4 He forgets 'what "inflation" is'---yes, it's popular for its result (prices going up); but it's CALLED 'inflation' because it's the result of people 'blowing more money INTO the system.' Democrats (I mean 'typical Democrats,' and I'm sure I'll talk about 'typical Republicans'; but I don't think I'll specify 'typical' anymore) believe that 'money' is something of 'absolute value.' I'm sure they "know" that 'a dollar today' won't buy the same thing as 'a dollar 5-or-10 years ago,' but they somehow forget that that's because there's more money in the system! Republicans believe that the money has to come from somewhere. Higher wages means fewer employees ... maybe that's why Andrew Yang approved of Universal Basic Income (rather than minimum wage)---because it makes 'choosing not to work' an option that employers then have to OUTBID if they want to have more employees. I hear Biden's 'Lower costs & not wages,' and my mind replies, "But wages ARE a cost! & if you lift wages; you have to hire FEWER workers or RAISE prices!" (maybe 'prices' is what he meant when he said 'costs' ... as if 'prices/costs' are decided by nothing but "the sellers' greed," where Republicans believe that most sellers' prices are based on formulae of THEIR costs (including their personal cost-of-living, EMPLOYEES' WAGES, actual cost of the product, etc.))
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Sharon Elton
@sharonelton (28700)
• Lichfield, England
3 Mar 22
That's very complicated and I didn't understand a lot of it. But what I did understand, I agree with.
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Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
3 Mar 22
Another way of putting it (and this could be 'totally wrong,' but it's just "the way it seems to me"): Republicans are grown-ups; they understand the complicated system, and trust its inner workings to the professionals. Democrats are ... well, they're adults too; but they believe that 'the government they were taught about in grade-school' is as complicated as the system gets. They're against America's practice of 'the Electoral College' (when we vote for a candidate for President, we're really voting for 'a person who has said they'll vote for that candidate), because they think that goes against "Democracy" (which--they imagine--means 'rule by vote of each eligible citizen'). Republicans--on the other hand--know that many 'majority votes' are just "going along with the crowd"---in 'the flyover States' (States in the middle of the country, with a more-spread-out population), we're better able to vote for 'what's right' without influence from 'the way all our neighbors are voting.'
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Sharon Elton
@sharonelton (28700)
• Lichfield, England
4 Mar 22
@mythociate Thank you very much for explaining that to me. I think I understand it a bit better now.
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