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Here we go again. If your only argument is that some companies are having layoffs, while ignoring the near record low in actual layoffs and historic job growth, I think you’ve lost the argument. FYI- Amazon is hiring 250k workers this holiday season, up from 100k. That alone dwarfs Citibank (which has 240k workers in total). Hiring is booming….see recent job numbers! |
What focus on American manufacturing? I need some details here. |
+1 Anyone citing individual companies that downsize is uninformed. When the economy “adds a million jobs” it is usually the net gain of about 7 million new jobs at companies expanding minus about 6 million jobs lost at companies downsizing or closing. Even when the economy is booming, some companies lose out, their contracts end, branches are closed, etc. It is fundamental to capitalism that market competition has winners and losers. |
Where have you been? |
Right here. Now give me specifics. Sending billions to China for solar panels and wind turbines doesn't count. Subsidizing battery and electric vehicle makers with tax payer dollars because their products would not sell without subsidies does not count. Your turn. |
You haven't been "right here," you've been in a coma, or perhaps a right wing propaganda-induced stupor, otherwise you would have heard of major legislative accomplishments like the Inflation Reduction Act or the CHIPS Act, which have stimulated a manufacturing boom in America: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1bvRX https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1bvS5 Sorry your guy couldn't actually do what he promised, and instead keeps getting owned by a "senile" Sleepy Joe. |
Seriously, use the google machine. The IRA and CHIP acts have incentivised business to bring manufacurting jobs back the US and particularly in the tech and solar/solar battery sectors. 800,000 solid blue collar but high skill jobs. |
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| Biden has done an incredible job on the economy given what we've gone through in the past few years. |
He really has, especially given that the GOP, American businesses and the “mainstream” media are actively trying to cause harm to the economy, plus the media can’t be bothered to give him any credit for ferrying us through what could have been a disaster. |
The "Sleepy Joe" tag is absurd, bordering on slanderous. Biden has the work ethic that would put a man half his age to shame. Trump spent most of his time tweeting, watching cable news and golfing. Biden has worked day and night to fix our economy, restore our reputation abroad and bring our country back. |
| My unscented laundry detergent has doubled in price since right before the pandemic. It now is $8.00 per bottle. It was $4.00 per bottle. |
Link? Stop buying it and find a competing brand. There is lots of competition in that space. |
That is horrific! I was supporting Biden but if that’s true we need a fascist coup immediately!!! JFC. |