Reply #63: Funny thing about that..... [View All]

[AnneD]

My 'spin' on this...yes there is a supply side, but there is a demand side too. It is a delicately balanced scale. It's you basic law of physics (Newton I believe-though it has been a while).

I first saw and felt the false logic of supply side logic throughout the Nursing Shortage. This shortage had been going on years into the Clinton Admin-and yet Nursing wages were stagnant. In fact, Nursing grad for several classes after I graduated couldn't find jobs. Many were laid off. Now-despite the deepening shortage-Nursing Schools are closing. Would you close medical schools in the middle of a Doctor Shortage? Doctor and Nurses are not hatched or fall from the skies fully formed.

Now, if there is a demand (shortage), logic would tell you that they would fetch a higher price in the market place and more folks would gear up to be Nurses, thus restoring equilibrium.

Yes, there is an unseen hand in the markets these days it's thumb is on the scale. What we are experiencing now is not the result of 'supply and demand', but the result of a thumb on the scale as it were. We have gone to the market to buy a pound of cheese, paid for our pound of cheese only to discover that we have come home with 1/2 a pound. Where we are now is the result of the continual fudging of the scales. The butcher has gotten fatter and we walk away with less.

People are and have been sensing that something is wrong (I think those question pollsters ask-Is the country moving in the right direction reflects this). A full fledge depression may wake folks up and they will eventually hit the streets. I mean-if you are out of work and there are no jobs-what better way is there to spend your time. Folks are expressing their feeling via the vote, but unless that produces real result-folks may eventually riot. People will be heard one way or the other.

I think part of this bitter divisivenesses and polarization is to keep us divided. I think most politicians have nightmares about the day the rank and file figure this one out.