@bobsal u1553115,
Quote:Is that just a foundation-less opinion of the sour grapes variety whine, or dd you forget make specific claims and some documentation?
It's called logic.
Learn to use it.
1. Biden raises (or tries anyway) minimum wage to $15 as part of his campaign plan. Anyone who has studied economics or been self-employed understands that this wage is not some nifty free money. It's money that an employer is required by law to pay legal workers.
(a) So either they employ less workers, creating a worker shortage. Which in turn means higher unemployment.
(b) Or they employ illegals under the table, threatening to deport them if they complain.
(c) Or they hire legal citizens, but do little tricks like shifting around hours to get around paying the 30 or so part time hours by splitting the pay period so half of it always seems to be after the pay time.
2. He tells us during his own speeches that he wants to create equality in farming (meaning fire white farmers, and hire blacks as farmers simply because they are black doing nothing to benefit employment and everything to create shortages), and he also wants farmers to "grow cover crops" (plant inedible unsellable stuff like clover or wildflowers) to save the environment. Resulting in more shortages.
3. These shortages inflate the economy, so now maybe people can afford $15 paying an hour as their currency is inflated. But it isn't actually worth $15 but closer to $12.30 due to about 18% inflation. And it's only gonna get worse as shortages increase.
4. In addition, he imposes COVID restrictions full stop, and in fact doubles down on them. Maintain social distance. Limit the number of people. Wear the masks. Now vaccinate everyone. Okay, logic time.
(a) Say that you have twelve employees, and you have to have a maximum of ten people in a shop period. Either you have to screen out your customers (and kill your income, making many days in the red). Or you cut employees (and make every job more difficult than it should be). It cannot be simply laying off two employees because you must also account for customers. At the end, you're gonna try to value income, so twelve employees? Down to three. Then they say that the plague is spreading, and more must be done to flatten the curve. Three people limited. You have one person, and the store will probably have to close. You've just killed small business in your area. So many people went dormant, trying to hang on to the property. Many couldn't.
(b) Now let's say you get rid of the cap on people, but they must stay six feet away. If you've played D&D, you know that 6 feet radius is larger than a 2 x 2 sq, which is actually closer to 12 ft in diameter. This gets to be unreasonable given most small shops have counters that are only so big. In fact, this demand gets to be worse than the first one.
(c) Even worse is the mask prohibition. Now you are getting away from numbers and into preferences. Some people can't wear masks (asthma/COPD/pneumonia). You don't care, you want them made to wear it anyway. Some people are afraid of masks due to either outright phobia of masks, the claustrophobic feeling of being walled in, or an issue with heightened social anxiety. Some morally object based their unhealthy language of submission (I immediately draw comparisons to dog muzzles and the hijab), due to seeing how other people are treated under this system if they refuse, or by drawing comparisons to all of this to end times. In fact, you may be surprised to know that some would rather DIE than wear one, even if it comes down to not being able to buy goods. Now I don't believe in apocalyptic stuff anymore, but it's completely appalling to do this to society, and everyone who enabled it should have been shot. But then they'd call all all of this "COVID deaths" of course.
(d) Ditto to vaccines, but now you have other fears in the way. They say that it contains mRNA. There's people who are wary of genetic manipulation or who don't eat GMOs. They also tell us that it may have side effects, including numbing and blood clots. Some seizures or partial paralysis is also a thing. Uhhhh yeah, I had seizures as a child. No thanks. Then there's the derivation from stem cells for some of these, and the concern about growing them from fetus material, which creates abortion concerns for pro-life types. All of this conspires together to make people unwilling to go places that demand this.
(e) And then there is the end effect of all this social rejection. Some people like me have just kinda... shut down, and don't have any real life friends anymore, and are sick and tired of people. **** off, all of you, they say. They stay home but not because of any disease. Because they completely hate how this has brought out the very worst of humanity. People like me no longer have any trust left, so they probably won't go back to work because other people are scum. I'm still waiting to be proven wrong here, but you guys haven't convinced me.
Biden declares that now most people are vaccinated so it's thanks to him that the numbers were up. Bullshit that it was his doing. I've observed personally the breakdown of mask and vaccine requirements, as people simply couldn't remain in business except by breaking the rules (I was in a pizza place that was crowded as hell, and only a few were eating outside and one wore a mask to enter), especially when people like me decided they would rather not visit than patronize a store that told them they are not welcome "unless they..." A custom like yours I can get any day. Instead, stores that had let me shop have not asked my vaccine status, knowing that I will walk off and never come back. A church I went to for years tried that. I have not returned, and I don't intend to until they drop it entirely. If even 1% of the population is like me, that's a good 3 million people who aren't going back to work until things stop. And there's probably more than that who only work at places that they know don't require it. Logic tells us that if a president is doing everything he can to sabotage American productivity, that it has happen IN SPITE of him, not BECAUSE of him.
You are looking for documentation. Yeah, right. Documentation is made by people with a printing press. When you write the narrative, you get to control the narrative.
When the numbers aren't even real, how can you trust documentation? There are only about 300 million or so in US, not 720 million. "Do not confuse my truth with facts." Yes, exactly.
