Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Scott Walker and Rich Scott beg, "Save our Paychecks." Who's, theirs? More grifting, lying,

Republicans rule by the "Contradictory Belief System of Self-Interest." 

Divorced from Reality: Scott Walker's failed theoretical belief system doesn't bother solving festering public problems because liberal "socialist" created the problem in the first place. 

Save our Paychecks Circus Tour: Scott Walker's simple minded message? Keep wages low so prices stay low; and repeat what GOP friendly businesses say about the labor shortage, even though Walker did nothing to lure workers to the state. No, the poorly messaged, policy free media ad that ran in Illinois didn't count. When you ignore the minimum wage, lack high speed broadband, create a maze of nightmare rules for unemployment, and then limited access to health care and transportation, what do you expect.

Mega millionaire Sen. Rick "Voldamort" Scott started with this ridiculous "hard times" story. Imagine being so rich you don't have to "watch what everything costs" sigh:"
We lived in public housing, I had a single mom, and I watched what she went through when we had inflation. We had to watch what everything cost, because things went up in price ... We're doing the exact same thing to the families in this country right now."
You mean you don't have to "watching what everything costs?" Striking disconnect. 


So Walker and Sen. Rick Scott have teamed up to peddle laughable exaggerations and absolute nonsense scenarios devoid of facts, science, and just plain old common sense.


Walker is speaking to QAnon'ers here, who were more than happy to blame immigrants and not their obvious anti-mask/anti-vax idiocy. Here's a recent text from my own Trump idol worshiper in Milwaukee:


 This recent COVID infection map exposes the bullshit "illegals" and "border" lie. (check out interactive map here):


Low Wages = Low prices, Cheap labor =  GOP Plan: If you didn't know why Republicans won't hike the minimum wages , it's should be crystal clear now. Walker's penchant to divide and conquer, with a dash of fear mongering, hit a new high with this "Debbie Downer" tweet...it really isn't true. But to Walker, helping Americans is never a good thing:

Overall, the payments were effective in helping those who were financially affected by the pandemic as the majority of households who had lost employment-based income received a payment. In fact, according to a study by the American Enterprise Institute, the impact payments played a pivotal role in preventing many Americans from falling into poverty last year. Overall, the $867 billion in direct payments, combined with the trillions of additional relief dollars enacted by Congress, prevented a drop in and actually increased personal income during the economic downturn.
And inflation was not all doom and gloom, as supply chains continue to ramp up...
All evidence suggests that current price increases are temporary and are driven by a few isolated goods and services, such as used cars and airplane tickets, that play a disproportionate role in influencing overall price jumps. Moreover, consumers can and do avoid many of the costlier items and substitute them with less expensive alternatives. Those substitutions—which reduce the effect of price increases in people’s experienced inflation—are not fully reflected in the reported inflation measures.

The additional investments in transportation and infrastructure will produce sustained improvements in inflation-adjusted incomes for families at all income levels. Low- and middle-income Americans would especially see meaningful gains from faster employment and wage growth. Moreover, these investments would not trigger inflation.

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