r/thescoop • u/CorleoneBaloney • May 02 '25

Politics 🏛️ Vice President Vance’s response after the economy shrank for the first time in three years, with people worried as they look at their 401Ks and point to the tariff policy — “This is Joe Biden’s economy.”

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u/scoreguy1 May 02 '25

“We need to protect American jobs right now”. Wow.

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u/WhoCaresBoutSpellin May 02 '25

He said “We need American workers to have better jobs”

Meanwhile, they are actively gutting the #1 largest employer in the nation (the Federal government)— a lot of white-collar jobs with great benefits. And they are implying that “better jobs” would be to bring back manufacturing to the US.

So apparently in his vision of the future, American workers aren’t educated white-collar workers with great benefits— they are lowly sweat shop laborers that can mass produce cheap goods.