For years our government has pursued policies that reduced the wages of the lowest paid Americans, while also instituting programs such as food stamps and medicaid to provide things they can’t afford on low wages.
Welfare and programs that provide benefits to lower wage earners now total $930 billion per year and climbing.
We will never even make a dent in our huge budget deficits and mushrooming national debt until there are decent paying jobs that enable the lower paid workers to provide for their own needs.
But all those imports are so “cheap” and that illegal alien labor is also “cheap”.
“Welfare and programs that provide benefits to lower wage earners now total $930 billion per year and climbing.”
If we cut $930 billion in spending we would virtually eliminate our budget deficit. This sounds like a much more politically popular way to reduce the deficit than cutting social security and medicare. Why haven’t the Republicans been pushing these cuts instead?