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[DMN]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

People care about how well they are doing not how well others are doing. Unless you own a lot of stock or a business. How "good" the economy is doesn't necessarily directly impact you. Healthcare means a lot more.

No one that needs coverage is going to vote for an abstract "good economy" instead.

BTW: "the economy is good" is like a Fox/CNN line. The reality of the health of the economy is far more debatable.

if the economy is doing well, people are getting raises/bonuses, businesses are expanding(and hiring). People decide to add an addition on to their house or maybe a pool. It all "trickles down" from there. Not everyone equally gains from a strong economy, but everyone gains.

[DinoTriz2]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

People care about how well they are doing not how well others are doing. Unless you own a lot of stock or a business. How "good" the economy is doesn't necessarily directly impact you. Healthcare means a lot more.

No one that needs coverage is going to vote for an abstract "good economy" instead.

BTW: "the economy is good" is like a Fox/CNN line. The reality of the health of the economy is far more debatable.

Are you actually this fucking retarded?

[Wonkie]

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[Thorondor]

Quit trying to use heroin addicts to further your cause. You could give all the bums in the US a free house with free electricity and free food and therewould be feces all over the walls in a ran down dump a year later.

[DinoTriz2]

Yes, because only billionaires benefit from low unemployment and job growth...

[DMN]

Originally Posted by Wonkie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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Just how good of an economy would be needed to spontaneously cure mental illness and drug addiction?

[Wonkie]

hat trick 3/3 mad about a cartoon

[JurisDictum]

Oh what do you know -- the rightwingers prefer looking at abstractions in the news that that tells them "raises are likely" rather than their actual wages and cost of living as individuals.

Bunch of trained monkeys. I can't believe you idiots still think owners of this society are like "yea the economy is good, let's give out raises instead of maximizing our bottom line more."

[DinoTriz2]

Democrats should run on promising a bad economy since having a good economy is a bad thing, apparently.

[Thorondor]

Originally Posted by Wonkie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

hat trick 3/3 mad about a cartoon

It's an irrelevant red herring to the discussion that you're attempting to use to validate your communist viewpoint. Even communists have no use for the lumpenproletariot.