“What economic factors and who is it in an uproar?”
Price of gas, smokes, cable TV, etc...folks in fly-over see their bills rise and are ready for a change...
Our local paper is doing a series on the poor. Today’s article was about the cost of healthy foods and used a guy on food stamps who has cable TV to make their point, which I guess I must have missed.
Price of gas, smokes, cable TV, etc...folks in fly-over see their bills rise and are ready for a change...
In other words the highly taxed and regulated segments on the economy, that is the ones the government has most control over (gas, smokes, cable TV) are rising fast. Meanwhile the less regulated parts of the economy prices are down, or amazingly have gone to zero.
First Hotmail and a few other web services provided something that used to cost hundreds of dollars a year for nothing. (BTW: lots of third world people without computers still have hotmail or yahoo accounts). Now we have free photo-sharing, free web hosting, free home-pages, etc.
The only part of the free market economy where the government isn't a big factor but inflation adjusted prices aren't falling is entertainment.
So, having observed this interesting contrast 'fly-over' voters are going to elect self-avowed socialists who will work to make more and more of the economy resemble the overtaxed tabacco and gasoline segments.
I thought the heartland was too smart to get suckered by a bunch of fast talking New Yorkers like Hillary and Rudy.
Guess not.