It's the correct call for Biden, somehow I don't think that's the path he will take, not because he's a dumbass, but because any talk of being worried about government spending is always actually a conversation about wanting the common folk to have as little government assistance as possible to benefit employers. I think moderates have been particularly stringent about passing what's an obvious electoral slamdunk and an urgent relief package for an unprecedented financial crisis because they are associating welfare and covid assistance with massive quit outs. They haven't quite processed yet that there's a lack of "essential workers" because essential workers are vastly overrepresented in covid deaths, nor have they understood that this is the reason supply chains are failing everywhere.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but budget is never an issue when the US buys three useless aircraft carriers.
edit: I also mantain that the 3.5T number is understood amongst legislators that it's the budget to be spent over a period of 10 years, so likely they're worried about the fraction of the budget that will be dedicated to social spending per year, that's what it's at stake here. The New York Times confused themselves by talking exclusively about big number and horserace bullshit.
Covid welfare is absolutely responsible for mass quits, no one is "acting" otherwise, and essential workers are underrepresented in Covid deaths for the simple fact that most people who died of Covid were over 60 (not working).
The bigger issue is that work is miserable as hell for people, for reasons unrelated to wages, and they don't want to put up with the bullshit when they don't have to. The Democrats will never do anything to make work better, so since you all won't behave and man the Burger grill, you don't get any treats like childcare or paid medical leave.
It's the correct call for Biden, somehow I don't think that's the path he will take, not because he's a dumbass, but because any talk of being worried about government spending is always actually a conversation about wanting the common folk to have as little government assistance as possible to benefit employers. I think moderates have been particularly stringent about passing what's an obvious electoral slamdunk and an urgent relief package for an unprecedented financial crisis because they are associating welfare and covid assistance with massive quit outs. They haven't quite processed yet that there's a lack of "essential workers" because essential workers are vastly overrepresented in covid deaths, nor have they understood that this is the reason supply chains are failing everywhere.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but budget is never an issue when the US buys three useless aircraft carriers.
edit: I also mantain that the 3.5T number is understood amongst legislators that it's the budget to be spent over a period of 10 years, so likely they're worried about the fraction of the budget that will be dedicated to social spending per year, that's what it's at stake here. The New York Times confused themselves by talking exclusively about big number and horserace bullshit.
Covid welfare is absolutely responsible for mass quits, no one is "acting" otherwise, and essential workers are underrepresented in Covid deaths for the simple fact that most people who died of Covid were over 60 (not working).
The bigger issue is that work is miserable as hell for people, for reasons unrelated to wages, and they don't want to put up with the bullshit when they don't have to. The Democrats will never do anything to make work better, so since you all won't behave and man the Burger grill, you don't get any treats like childcare or paid medical leave.
If you normalize for people over 60, then you get a shitton of Black, Latinos in primarily service work fields.