Blog Post 3 National Gov
The video we watched depicts a republican politician discussing the reduction of social safety nets in the United States. The video itself operates on two distinct levels as there is the original video intercut with a reaction to that video. The main point of the reactor is a part of the video in which the conservative admits that their policies would initially cause suffering if implemented. The video wishes to highlight the hypocrisy in conservative merit-based assessment of social inequality. Certainly the conservative movement in the United States operates on a fairly confused platform. Many of their fiscal policies run contradictory to what years of economic research has disproved. Clinging to the idea that de-valuing workers in favor of the corporations that employ them will somehow lead to a rise in wages. This has been proved untrue as even those corporations given massive tax breaks, like the massive US-based fast-food chains, still by and large stick to the federal minimum wa...