A) This person is very clearly not saying they are the same, and even provided you a visual guide explaining the difference.
B) “Fixing the economy,” always means stabilizing the stock market and lowering the deficit, but never improving the material conditions of the working class. Obama stabilized the stock market by bailing out the banks who created the financial crisis, not the homeowners facing foreclosure. Biden curbed inflation with supply-side measures instead of price control. Even Clinton responded to the H.W. Bush recession by gutting welfare and deregulating Wall Street (hell, repealing Glass-Steagall is one of the main reasons we got the financial crisis in the first place).
Which is how we got the “oh my god shut up about how you can’t afford groceries or whatever it is you poors waste money on. The billionaires are doing fine and that means everything is solved. Now vote for us.” messaging from democrats in 2024.
A) This person is very clearly not saying they are the same, and even provided you a visual guide explaining the difference.
B) “Fixing the economy,” always means stabilizing the stock market and lowering the deficit, but never improving the material conditions of the working class. Obama stabilized the stock market by bailing out the banks who created the financial crisis, not the homeowners facing foreclosure. Biden curbed inflation with supply-side measures instead of price control. Even Clinton responded to the H.W. Bush recession by gutting welfare and deregulating Wall Street (hell, repealing Glass-Steagall is one of the main reasons we got the financial crisis in the first place).
Which is how we got the “oh my god shut up about how you can’t afford groceries or whatever it is you poors waste money on. The billionaires are doing fine and that means everything is solved. Now vote for us.” messaging from democrats in 2024.
“Here’s a graph that shows that, on average, real wages have gone up more than inflation!”
“Well my wages haven’t gone up, and now I can’t afford groceries.”
“Did you even look at the graph?”