The Big Political Issue

[cthulu2016]

Issues come, issues go, but outside a big war, people reliably vote on this stuff.

I guess the best available answer is to goverment spending up (almost) any way we can, sort-to-medium term.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The average American household is earning less than when the Great Recession ended four years ago, according to a report released Wednesday.

U.S. median household income, once adjusted for inflation, has fallen 4.4 percent in that time, according to the report from Sentier Research. The report is based on an analysis of Census Bureau data.

The median, or midpoint, income in June 2013 was $52,098. That's down from $54,478 in June 2009, when the recession officially ended. And it's below the $55,480 that the median household took in when the recession began in December 2007.

The report says nearly every group is worse off than four years ago, except for those 65 to 74. Some groups have experienced larger-than-average declines, including blacks, young and upper-middle-aged people and the unemployed...

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20130821/DA8AJ3I82.html

[liberal_at_heart]

1. When they can afford to feed themselves people vote on social issues, when they are hurting

economically they vote on economic issues. And with the decline in wages, I think economic issues are going to start becoming a much bigger issues when it comes to votes. And just making empty promises to the "middle class", whoever they are, don't work when promises made have been broken.