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Jul 14, 2022 • 28 tweets • 6 min read
Billionaires & corporations do not create jobs
Consumers & small businesses do
A short story to illustrate this point 🧵
Say you’ve opened a new restaurant “Blake’s Burgers”
Initially you hire 3 people:
1 chef
1 waiter
1 manager
“Creating more jobs” by hiring another chef/waiter is done as a LAST RESORT, only when customer demand outstrips your staff’s capacity to serve
Jun 26, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
There is a false narrative going around
“Obama could have codified #RoeVsWade when he had a supermajority but chose not to. Therefore there is no point in voting for Democrats and #VoteBlueNoMatterWho”
This is misleading at best and harmful at worst
Here are the facts 👇
When Obama was sworn in, there were:
56 Democrats + 2 Independents in the Senate
Al Franken’s victory was not acknowledged by Republicans until July
Republican Arlen Specter did not become a Democrat until April
