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In reply to the discussion: “Consumers Aren’t Spending Even In a Booming Job Market” [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)29. You would think that all of those brilliant minds
would realize that jobs don't save the economy if people still have to be on Food Stamps to survive with those jobs.
Purposefully obtuse, I'd say.
The greedy oligarchs and corporate overlords are willing to look like complete imbeciles, as long as they don't have to admit we need a living wage, affordable housing, better rapid transit and better social support in this country.
Tools and fools for the Holy Dollah. Same as it ever was.
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I guarantee you that the ACA has negatively impacted my wife's income
taught_me_patience
Mar 2015
#55
One factor: the rising cost of healthcare is sucking every dime out of the economy
GreatGazoo
Mar 2015
#3
You're on Medicare and your union tells you what supplemental or Advantage plan you can have?
SheilaT
Mar 2015
#46
Then look into the Advantage and supplemental plans for your part of the world if you are over 65.
SheilaT
Mar 2015
#48
I believe it's because of the ACA, which requires various routine office visits be free.
SheilaT
Mar 2015
#64
Complaining about consumer spending...in a BOOMING job market? Thanks, Obama.
Fred Sanders
Mar 2015
#4
My own personal saga may help shed light on this paradox. After a prolonged bout
KingCharlemagne
Mar 2015
#5
I'm making ends meet with only one job (at the 30% pay cut), but only barely. If I want to have fun,
KingCharlemagne
Mar 2015
#20
I read somewhere quite awhile ago that 95% of the gains from this so-called
KingCharlemagne
Mar 2015
#18
The more often I live without tv, the more irritating it feels when I see one blaring away.
dixiegrrrrl
Mar 2015
#66