Avoiding the issue is not a solution, and comparing ourselves to the world standing is a lame argument that can be used to justify anything. Let's have a 100% maximum earnings tax on millionaires because $1,000,000 USD can go a long way in Guyana so the rich shouldn't complain. Let's expand NSA surveillance, you wouldn't be complaining if you were North Korean! Two child restriction seems fair, after all China only allows one!
The simple fact is Republicans need to produce a valuable plan to provide advancing infrastructure for the working poor: education so they aren't stuck in dead end jobs, health insurance so they aren't derailed by acts of God, and means to get somewhere. Pretending the working poor have it already isn't doing anything. Hell, even if you go with the narrative that they are being lazy, they don't even have a stated plan to get them to get them off the couch.
Maybe if we think hard enough, it can be done without spending more money and raising taxes. But we aren't even going to think about it, are we? What a joke.
It's really quite stunning how devoid of solutions the GOP is right now. It's a huge contradiction. They speak like the challenger yet act like the incumbent.
GOP opinion of the USA: "Everything is going to sh**t!"
GOP's plan for the USA: "Don't try to do anything! Everything we have is fine!"
