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Originally posted by HighOnAcid
I thought it was pretty fucked up when asked about the minimum wage increase he spins it into an education answer. I was thinking to myself, "What in the fuck is he talking about?!?!". That struck me as odd.
Did anyone else catch that?
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It would be pretty fucked up to people that dont understand how politics affects jobs...
Let me start by saying that the president can only do so much for jobs.. first he can increase government... and therefore increase taxes and hire people into the govt... and pay them basically with their own money.... or he can cut taxes.. to employers..
secondly, he can do crazy stuff to hurt the long term health of the economy buy creating tariffs and stuff on products from over seas.. effectively making it so you have to produce in the us to sell in the us.. but this pisses off everyone involved... because you cant buy that nice stereo system from japan... and the economies fucked up by this action stop dealing with you etc....
or thridly, which isnt an immediate fix.. but he can fix the education system... which is causing some of our workers to be only limited in capacity to manufactoring jobs... and not only do you increase your populations capacity for higher employment you improve quality of products secondarly...
this can be controlled because we do rely upon a public education system, which is controlled and funded by the govt...