The fact Obama won't do one goddamned thing about makes it easier for Romney to win in November. And HE won't do one goddamned thing about it, either.
Both parties are in a concerted war against everybody else by not putting in policies that would stimulate demand and thus create jobs. Instead, shitty jobs don't put food on the table, not even multiple shitty jobs, and therefore few people have ANY money to spend:
Low-wage work is a pandemic. A third of our population ekes by on less than $36,000 for a family of three. That's 103 million people living on less than twice the poverty line, but most of them technically aren't poor or don't consider themselves poor. Yet they struggle every month to make ends meet and are one medical emergency or protracted illness away from bankruptcy.
Why so much low-wage work? Because over the past 40 years, well-paying industrial jobs disappeared, unions lost much of their clout, the minimum wage stagnated, and the field of competition in many areas became globalized.
The result: half of U.S. jobs now pay $34,000 or less a year. A quarter of U.S. jobs pay less than $22,000, the poverty line for a family of four. And the wages for those jobs have been stuck for four decades. Today, they pay only 7 percent more than they did in 1973.
Meanwhile, Republicans whine and Republicans bitch, our rich are too poor, and our poor are too rich.
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