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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls
I agree. But the war is not the major cause of wages going down. It has a lot to do with legal and illegal immigration/outsourcing/imports. But to be honest we needed that immigration spike to hide the true inflation rate. But now that the economy is slowing we are left paying welfare on those immigrants and those whos jobs were replaced/wages lowered by immigrants. And the real inflation rate is starting to peek its head out, hence the 20 to 40% spike in the food bills. (not saying the real inflation rate is 20 or 40% just saying its higher than the fed is saying)
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I'm not an expert on the economy, and I'm not even going to pretend that I have answers or anything like that, but according to
this website, the cost of the war so far, as of a few minutes ago, is $511,218,647,144.
Surely if that money had gone elsewhere, the country overall would be better off even if it isn't 100% directly correlated to dropping/stagnant wages.