EITHER HELP US OR GET OUT OF THE DAMN WAY!

By Joe Segal

Democrats in charge & those who most cater to the college-educated professional class, economists & media elites ignored the pain of those whose rents increased by 30% since COVID. Had home interest rates & mortgages shot up 30% they’d have felt our pain perhaps sufficiently.

I saw people mostly columnists and political cheerleaders for the status quo boast of a high stock market totally ignoring the reality that 93% of all shares are owned by the wealthiest 10% of Americans. That professional class who can afford investments and are not like the 60% of us squeaking by month-to-month paycheck to paycheck with no savings for emergencies unable to afford high rents, astronomical childcare costs, rising food costs, and everything else, and feeling immense economic fear/anxiety.

The same financial industry columnists and commentators, economics reporters and tribal Democratic party loyalists who believe criticism is a sin and the party can do no wrong were writing about how the Chips Act and BIF Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill was transformative, ignored the reality that most of the benefits from those programs impacted a tiny portion of workers & business investors of this nation and did nothing for the hundreds of millions of workers struggling and feeling left out and sold out by our party and the GOP.