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Old 05-22-2015, 01:31 PM  
kane
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Originally Posted by mineistaken View Post
Nice misdirection tactics

Lets me repeat my point which has nothing to do with states:

Democrats are happy that unemployment is down. Ok, that sounds good. But at the same time - food stamps more than doubled! Not so good?
To put what I am saying vividly with random numbers:
At first:
100.000 people, 7.000 unemployed, 15.000 on food stamps.
Decreasing unemployment range:
100.000 people, 5.200 unemployed, 32.000 on food stamps.

How is that a good thing? And how do you manage that?

Again, numbers are just random, to illustrate that it is very strange to have less unemployed, yet double the food stamps!
If you brag about one thing, brag about another


Of course you can twist it this way - democrats made all those jobs happen, but republicans in the states forced lower wages. So yeah, democrats did good, but republicans ruined that. Typical GFY demoract fanboy rhetoric

But again - keep in mind that for that to happen not only ALL those extra jobs must be at food stamp level, but also many more "old" jobs should turn into food stamp jobs for food stamp numbers to increase more than double...

Could republicans destroy wages that much? YES THEY CAN! At least what crocket would say
How would a republican president have changed this? It isn't that people aren't working. Many more people are working now than when Obama took office. The problem is that the jobs that have been created since the recession are mostly low paying service and retail jobs so those who are working are also collecting food stamps.

To me this is a result over 30+ years of bad trade policies and bad tax policies from both parties. When the economy started to rebound many of the manufacturing companies that were in the US and closed reopened overseas.

How would any president, regardless of party force these company to open back up in the US and pay a decent wage?
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