Really?
1. The High Cost of Childcare
2. Stagnant Wages Combined With Ever-Increasing Cost of Living
3. Public Education Is Struggling, and Private Schools Are Unaffordable
4. Astronomical College Tuition
5. The High Cost of Healthcare
6. The Decline of Organized Labor
7. U.S. Still Lags Behind inPaid Maternity Leave
8. Stagnant Minimum Wage
9. Outsourcing and the Loss of American Manufacturing Jobs
I do not notice a single point, listed, on any Democratic agenda.
1) High cost of Childcare: This is about labor costs. Hiring an employee in the US is extremely expensive because of Democratic policies. What they did was arrange for these taxes to be paid by the employer so that they do not appear on the employees paycheck. But the effect is the same. An employee in the US costs a lot more than the small amount the employee collects. And the new healthcare law has made this even worse.
2) Stagnant Wages Combined with Ever-Increasing Cost of Living: The real problem for low wages in the US is competition. The reason Europe has much higher wages for relatively unskilled labor (fast food worker for instance) is that they have a lot smaller population that is unskilled. Raising the number of unskilled workers in the US suppresses wages. The Democratic party is all about bringing in as many unskilled laborers as they can. This suppresses wages.
3) Public Education is Struggling and Private Schools are Unaffordable: The big problem with the cost of public education in the US are public sector unions. These prevent lousy teachers from being fired and they raise costs for all. In addition, their unions support bloated administration costs. They've make it illegal to run education cheaply. Of course the public sector unions are a pure Democratic machine.
4) Astronomical College Tuition: College tuition in the US used to be subsidized and quite cheap. Since then the usual (partisan democratic) public sector unions have driven up college costs by reducing the working load for professors. In addition, the government subsidizes tuition loans and the result is that colleges can charge whatever they like to students (who are too naive to realize how deep the hole they are digging is). But there is another facet to this; these college loans will be paid off in the fairly distant future. We've been getting along with very little inflation for a long time. My guess is that inflation is coming back and these loans will be easier to repay than they seem now.
5) The High Cost of Healthcare: The Democrats created Obamacare without a single Republican vote. The effect has been to explode the costs of healthcare for middle income Americans. And the public knows exactly where to blame these costs, hence the recent election difficulties for the Democrats. In addition to ruining a system that was working, the Democrats are in the back pocket of the trial lawyers and the trial lawyers support a system where huge amounts of money are extracted from doctors (and therefore from the consumers of health care through higher costs) and put into the pockets of lawyers.
6) The Decline of Organized Labor: This decline is largely due to organized labor over pricing labor. Jobs are moving to states where organized labor is less pervasive. The states that the Democratic party controls are sliding into economic ruin while the Republican run states are thriving and the decline of organized labor is a part of this. If organized labor had not been so greedy, they would not be in decline. And of course Organized Labor is largely (but not completely) an institution of the Democrat Party.
7) US Still Lags Behind in Paid Maternity Leave: Okay, on this, the Democrats are not responsible, but paid maternity leave is not a problem. What's a problem is when the bread winner for the family can't earn enough money to support a family. Instead, his pregnant wife has to work and that is a crime. Even now the Democrats are trying to push through legislation to require "equal pay for equal work" which sounds nice but which translates as "more money for women and less money for men". Instead of comparing the same jobs only, the objective here is to require that work which is primarily done by women be paid the same as work that is primarily done by men. For example, they will try to make Nursing wages (mostly women) equal to Engineering wages (mostly men). This is another give away program for one of their constituencies but the result is to make it even more difficult for a father to support a family. The net effect will be to give yet another method for the (very Democratic) trial lawyers to extort money from business and thereby make the US even less competitive.
8) Stagnant Minimum Wage: The Democrats are bringing in as much unskilled labor into the US as they can (in the expectation that they will be allowed to vote and that they will vote for Democrats). Of course the effect of this huge number of additional unskilled workers is that unskilled pay decreases. In this environment, raising the minimum wage is a non starter. If it were raised, it would simply force companies to get rid of the newly expensive employees in favor of machinery or other cost changes.
9) Outsourcing and the Loss of American Manufacturing Jobs: Part of this is due to the high costs of hiring US employees and that is largely due to Democratic efforts at making business pay high costs. But it is also partly due to the fact that the rest of the world is catching up with the US in manufacturing technology. In addition, the rest of the world is getting wealthier and as they do, they need proportionately larger amounts of reserve currencies. And since the US is the world's leading reserve currency, it sucks money out of the US. This sucking of money has to be balanced by a sucking in of manufactured goods and this makes manufactured goods very cheap in the US. And of course this makes it difficult to make a profit manufacturing goods in the US.
