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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Yet this is all so politically driven.

    For example, there were many minimum wage hikes during Biden’s term, lifting the lowest wages. At the state level. In blue states. Politicians in the states that needed this most blocked both federal increases and those for their own states. How are those politicians not the ones getting the blame?

    As another example, legislation signed by Biden resulted in many additional business benefits in factories and trades. This would have created many new jobs, especially in some of the most low wage parts of the country. But not until the factories are built. And political changes where the government won’t follow through with its commitments means many of these will no longer be built. Why isn’t the administration stopping these new jobs getting the blame?


  • The economy was doing well, but as we see in these comments that it’s tough to communicate things like

    • inflation is back near normal: all the increases since Covid suck, but prices shouldn’t increase that fast anymore
    • businesses and stock market doing well, even though we’re not republicans
    • working hard to contain avian flu, even if it means eggs will be expensive for a few years
    • huge investments in bringing manufacturing back to the US. Factories being built. So many new jobs … in a few years
    • huge investments to bring back new technology leadership we threw away. Factories and labs being built. So many new jobs … in a few years
    • finally making good progress limiting carbon emissions. Avoid the worst parts of climate change
    • huge investments in rebuilding ancient falling apart infrastructure, we can’t keep putting it off … even if it likely wouldn’t actually fail in our term
    • great international cooperation toward peace and security
    • saving literally millions of lives of the poorest humans, saving untold misery, devastation from disease, starvation, abject poverty
    • improving health care coverage for millions of Americans
    • first steps toward getting excessive educational inflation under control.
    • first steps toward rebuilding a network of intercity rail connecting us all
    • and many more

    Yet this is already a wall of text many would ignore