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The ACA helped a bit but it did not affect the root cause: loss of solid well paying jobs with upward mobility.
by api 8y ago
The ACA helped a bit but it did not affect the root cause: loss of solid well paying jobs with upward mobility.
- mcphage 8y ago> The ACA helped a bit but it did not affect the root cause Given the enormous cost of helping even a bit, I would expect affecting the root cause would have netted the entire party a damnatio memoriae.
- api 8y agoIf done right fixing the jobs problem should be a net positive for the economy. I don't think it's malice. I think it's that most political leadership (of both parties) lives in coastal cities that haven't felt the pain to anywhere near the extent of the interior. They also tend to be immersed in aggregate statistics that don't tell the whole story. GDP might be going up but break it down by region, calculate the Gini coefficient, etc. and you see that there are huge problems.
- mcphage 8y agoI meant more cost in political capital.