The OP may want to say to his friend, “Do you believe the President controls the economy? If the President does control the economy, is that a good thing?”
Ask him how his 401k has done under Obama.
You get paid market value for your work. STFU or get better at your job. Sincerely, Mitt Romney
Tell him this.
He should also ask his employer how the manufacturing corporation has done under Obama. There are more than a few companies that are doing quite fine, and whose profits are quite nice.
Maybe show him this page
If his company is not one of the many who are doing just great under Obama, then ask him why it is Obama’s fault that his specific company is failing.
Me too. And I was doing pretty well 5 years ago to begin with.
Thanks Obama!
Personally speaking, I would respond (100% truthfully) by telling him that my freelancing business is doing better right now than at any time since I started freelancing in 2004. I’ve had more clients in the past three months than in the entire year prior to that. Many of the people on my industry-related listserv are reporting similar experiences.
So basically, my personal anecdote cancels out his personal anecdote. We’re going to have to ask a whole shitload more people before we can get to the bottom of this one. Either that or look at some actual data, his choice.
If it were anything like that, I’d suspect that he would be getting step increases in his basic rate every thirty weeks or so.
That’s how it works for me (USPS, but I’d be surprised if other federal pay systems aren’t at least similar).
“My wife and I have both found new jobs (without losing our old jobs) and increased our household income about 30%. Thanks, Obama!”
Was Obama President 5 years ago?
No?
So maybe he isn’t the reason you haven’t gotten a raise in 5 years but he IS the reason you still have a job.
On the other hand, mad max world looks intersting in the movies.
Nod your head and back away slowly. It’s the only way you can deal with people like this.
The other day some guy was ranting to me about voter ID, “Doesn’t it bother you that anyone can vote in this country without showing ID? Only in a democratic country like here does this stuff happen! WHY DOESN’T IT BOTHER YOU?”
You really can’t engage these people.
nm…
This, pretty much. My base pay has increased roughly 40% during the Obama administration, mostly because I’ve had bossed who were convinced I was going to bolt otherwise and wanted to keep me.
So, the contracting company is too feeble to negotiate higher fees? Or, maybe they did and screwed your friend and pocketed the increase. Anything keeping him there? If he thinks he is worth more, he should find a job which pays more. He shouldn’t blame Obama for him being a pussy. He should be grateful that inflation is pretty low, so he didn’t really lose that much purchasing power. Plus what everyone else has said.
Well … that depends: http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/11/news/companies/feinberg_compensation/index.htm
Your friend should get a job on Wall Street or for a big oil company- someplace like that. They are rolling in the dough.
I’d tell him that if he’s so miserable, he should self-deport.
Since those companies were taking government money to stay afloat and it impacts the high level execs who put the companies in that position, no problem.
It doesn’t really matter what you tell him. He’ll still blame his economic woes on the government, as will many like him. That’s the way it works. The buck always stops in the White House.
There were a couple of very bad growing seasons in England, and food was scarce and expensive. Disraeli’s party was voted out. He is supposed to have said something to the effect that the British voter will not forgive a party that fails to control the weather.