Posted on 08/17/2024 7:54:34 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The debates stretched late into the evening and sometimes well past midnight. At their offices in Jamaica’s capital city, after the nighttime cleaners had come and gone, Gladstone “Fluney” Hutchinson and his colleague Donald J. Harris would lock horns over technical questions related to the Caribbean nation’s economic development - how to diversify exports, options for tax reform, what might boost worker productivity.
Nearly every day for about eight months in 2012, the father of Kamala Harris - now the U.S. vice president and Democratic presidential nominee - worked with Hutchinson to craft what would become a 294-page document laying out an economic growth strategy for Jamaica, which at the time was suffering from sluggish growth and cripplingly large debt. The “growth inducement” document the longtime friends produced after hundreds of meetings with private-sector and civil-society leaders is viewed by some former Jamaican officials as playing a key role in righting the country’s economy in the decade since. Donald Harris later received the Order of Merit, Jamaica’s third-highest national honor.
“Donald Harris’s policy work was absolutely foundational to the Jamaican economy,” said Hutchinson, an economics professor at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania.
Since Kamala Harris’s rise to national prominence, her father has been labeled a left-wing economist who often focused on abstract debates primarily of interest to fellow academics. The 85-year-old former Stanford University professor did spend much of his career immersed in arcane disputes over topics whose practical implications can be hard to discern immediately. His 1978 book, for instance, is a 313-page dissection of centuries of competing concepts about the nature of capital accumulation and income distribution, suggesting a fascination with economic theory purely for its own sake.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
And he is a Jamaican citizen. What does that make Kamala?
She sure didn’t get his smarts.
Guess he’s smart. Too bad about his daughter.
A communist.
That report ought to be ripe picking for the Trump campaign
A Jamaican dollar is worth about $0.006 in US dollars.
“Donald Harris’s policy work was absolutely foundational to the Jamaican economy,”
Which is why it is a violent communist s hole
Skipped a generation.
Donald Harris 2024!
” Post-Keynesianism, which also evolved from Keynesianism assumes that markets alone cannot ensure full employment, and that the government must stimulate demand. To post-Keynesians, the dimension of equality, classes and economic power is very important. Therefore, they are very concerned with distribution of income — how a country's wealth is distributed among its inhabitants.She learned equality and income redistribution on his knee.Harris was preoccupied with exploitation and other concepts that came directly from Karl Marx's theory of capital. For example, The Economist recounts that he once argued that the inequality that beset Black people in the U.S. did not come from a form of "colonial rule" where white people dominate. Instead, he argued that the problem was capitalism. In this sense, Harris was indeed marxist in his thinking.”
He’s not running for anything here and from what I’ve read has had little or nothing to do with Kamala. There’s more than enough in her record for the Trump campaign to go after. ‘Daughter of a Marxist’ ought to be enough.
When I taught there a generation ago, it was about $0.025. Which didn't matter, since most places took, in fact wanted USDs.
The slogan of the Harris/Walz campaign, if it were honest, would be Make America Jamaica.
INELIGIBLE
Hope this gets visibility. Dad is not a US citizen, neither was mom..
Heels is ineligible per the Constitution.
Trump has standing to challenge...but will he take the gamble?
Maybe Vance should ask the courts for clarification of her pedigree.
Somebody, anybody...?
’ The 85-year-old former Stanford University professor did spend much of his career immersed in arcane disputes over topics whose practical implications can be hard to discern immediately. His 1978 book, for instance, is a 313-page dissection of centuries of competing concepts about the nature of capital accumulation and income distribution, suggesting a fascination with economic theory purely for its own sake.”
ARCANE DISPUTES?!
BS - THE GUY, AND HIS DAUGHTER, ARE DIE HARD COMMUNISTS!
As for proof - I give you that the Washington Post article doesn’t elaborate on what those “economic” solutions were...
I’ll tell you what they were - massive injections of capital from the IMF. Typical socialist wealth redistribution. (See wikipedia article on Jamaica)
If we want to lose the election, we'll talk about this. 🙄
Both of her parents were in the U.S. on student visas when she was born. She may be a native citizen, but not a Natural Born Citizen, so not constitutionally qualified to run for the Presidency. I have wondered if she is also a Canadian Citizen, but she was able to return to California after High School so I do not think she renounced her U.S. Citizenship. The U.S. was a bit more strict about borders and citizenship at that time and there would be some record regarding this.
In thinking about Jamaica’s greatest citizen, I’d have to give a nod to Donald Harris...
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