Dems picked a good issue that GOP needs to watch carefully. Future trends show that technology will allow for further automation of the workplace. Up to 40 percent of current jobs can be automated. It will happen even if wages are low because corporations can do it. Robots can work 24/7, are very precise, and you do not have to provide it with healthcare, etc etc etc. That means more Americans will be unemployed while the labor savings will be pocketed by the corporation and bonuses will increase for CEO and exec staff. Income gap will grow with automation because the wealth and profit will be shared with fewer people, the employed and the ones on top. Income inequality will become an issue as time goes on and automation proceeds. Dems recognize this and are getting ahead of it, while the GOP assumes it will go away.
What is your solution? Will raising the minimum wage a couple of bucks solve “income inequality”?
Don’t mislabel job loss as “income inequality”. The latter means the socialist goal of grabbing from “the rich” and handing the wealth previously held thereby to “the poor”.
The GOP is complicit with the Dems. They’ve worked hard to sideline conservatives and are all about the one-party state.
Robot hamburger factory makes 360 Gourmet Burgers every hour...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3100817/posts
A more important priority is assuring that US jobs go to US citizens. Send home all invaders and all other non-citizens who are doing jobs US citizens could do. EVerify all jobs.
Supporting the minimum wage as it is now is a disaster in the making. It'll allow the dems to campaign on how much most US citizens are suffering while the rich get richer and more powerful. Better to campaign on how the dems want foreigners to take jobs from hard-working US citizens.
Both of them picked the Federal Reserve to print up money and give to them to spend. As long as that continues, there will be no economic recovery and there will be gross widening of the "income" gap as the Fed and the politicians prefer handing money to the already wealthy in the lame hope that they will invest and create jobs. Instead there is more speculation and more inequality.
Future trends show that technology will allow for further automation of the workplace.
As has happened numerous times in history.
We no longer have bugy whip factories and probably few buggy factories.. Not much need for TV antenna factories anymore..
Robots can work 24/7, are very precise, and you do not have to provide it with healthcare, etc etc etc. That means more Americans will be unemployed while the labor savings will be pocketed by the corporation and bonuses will increase for CEO and exec staff.........................
The problem with this scenario is that if no one is employed then no one is going to be buying what the robots produce and the CEO will get nothing...