Posted on 08/16/2024 4:41:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech Friday was an opportunity to get specific with voters about how a Harris presidency would manage an economy that many feel is not working well for them. Unfortunately, instead of delivering a substantial plan, she squandered the moment on populist gimmicks.
Americans are clearly still anxious and angry about the high cost of groceries, housing and even $5.29 Big Macs. While the inflation rate has cooled substantially since the 2022 peak, an ostensible Biden-Harris administration accomplishment, prices remain elevated relative to the Trump years. So it’s a real political issue for Ms. Harris. One way to handle it might be to level with voters, telling them that inflation spiked in 2021 mainly because the pandemic snarled supply chains, and that the Federal Reserve’s policies, which the Biden-Harris administration supported, are working to slow it. The vice president instead opted for a less forthright route: Blaming big business. She vowed to go after “price gouging” by grocery stores, landlords, pharmaceutical companies and other supposed corporate perpetrators by having the Federal Trade Commission enforce a vaguely defined “federal ban on price gouging.”
Never mind that many stores are currently slashing prices in response to renewed consumer bargain hunting. Ms. Harris says she’ll target companies that make “excessive” profits, whatever that means. (It’s hard to see how groceries, a notoriously low-margin business, would qualify.) Thankfully, this gambit by Ms. Harris has been met with almost instant skepticism, with many critics citing President Richard M. Nixon’s failed price controls from the 1970s. Whether the Harris proposal wins over voters remains to be seen, but if sound economic analysis still matters, it won’t.
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Is this headline really from The Washington Post? That can’t be good news for the Harris/Walz ticket.
It's against posting rules for it to be otherwise.
They couldn’t be advocating for a new ticket again could they? Nah?????
She’s getting way too much pushback from the Washington Post, CNN, and other MSM sources. Are they laying the groundwork for a switch out of the convention?
No kidding!
Hang on! Is this the Amazon Compost?
That's why Trump is waiting until after the Democrat convention to go after her.
If she is still the nominee, it's going to be like shooting fish in a barrel.
They must know something about the DNC Convention already that we don’t.
Maybe Camela is getting the boot.
The bloom, if there ever was one, is off the rose
Only ‘dozens’ showed up and her delivery was awful
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And just the other day she held a rally and when Slow Joe got up to speak - everyone left.
The truth displays the thin skin of the left.
I think she has had a few weeks in the ever lovin’ bosom of the RAT media pimping her as better than sliced bread. I think they may be seeing her without all that cover and it isn’t so good.
Forced Communism is not a gimmick.
If, God forbid, the Dems take the House, the Senate and the Presidency as pollster Frank Luntz says, they will have unbridled tyrannical power over all of us.
“[inflation] mainly because the pandemic snarled supply chains”
BS BS BS. Inflation is always a monetary phenomena. Too much money chasing too few goods.
Too much money was fedzilla pumping $5 TRILLION into the economy and paying people to stay home.
Too few goods was the states and fedzilla shutting down the economy and messing everything up for years.
It was the perfect inflationary storm caused mainly by Democrats (with a lot of so-called Republicans assisting).
Well, see ya, Kammie.
Bring on Big Mike.
Some are saying Joey is going to challenge her at the convention. Popcorn time maybe?
Maybe this was always a way to get rid of Kamala. Who knows?
"The times demand serious economic ideas. Harris supplies gimmicks."
Regarding economic ideas, Democratic and Republican Trump supporters are reminded that the states can repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A) at any time.
Repealing those amendments will not only put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, a result of Congress's abuse of its 16A powers imo, but also stop federal government interference in the affairs of the sovereign states, effectively seceding ALL the states from the tyrannical, unconstitutionally big federal government.
"16th Amendment : The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers versus the 10th Amendment power of the states to serve the people as follows.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Illegals are indeed getting immediate Social Security, contrary to Democrat claims (7.11.24)
Democrats [and RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
In the meanwhile, since worthless incumbent career federal lawmakers and renegade states have repeatedly proven that they are enemies of the people imo, it is now up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to effectively "impeach and remove" ALL (exceptions?) state and federal lawmakers and executives in November.
In other words, it's now up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to support hopeful Trump 47 with a new, Constitution-respecting Congress, new state lawmakers too, not only so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, but will support him to quickly finish draining the swamp, including repealing 16&17A.
Finally, let's not allow the anti-Trump media try to fade our memories of what we witnessed on July 13.
Down the Memory Hole: Google Hides Autocomplete Suggestions Related to Trump Assassination Attempt (7.28.24)
gas up 35% my aching azz! it’s still double...
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