> cheesetray wrote:
> Michael G re the coming election
> > PART I - WHY TO VOTE FOR KH
> > First, I urge every U.S. citizen to vote in our upcoming national
elections.
> Second, these are considerations for why I plan on voting for
Vice-President Harris to serve as
> the next President of the United States:
> 1. I believe Vice President Harris will continue to implement the
transformative work of the
> American Rescue Plan, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, the CHIPS
and Science Act, and the
> Inflation Reduction Act, with the purpose of strengthening the
foundations of the United States
> economy for a long time to come.
> 2. I believe Vice President Harris will continue and enhance the
largely successful recent efforts
> of the Federal Reserve and the Biden administration to reduce
inflation and decrease the cost of
> housing, food, energy, and other essentials.
> 3. I believe Vice President Harris will pursue tax deductions and
tax credits targeted to increase
> the prosperity and financial stability of the average American
struggling in the aftermath of the
> economic dislocations of the Great Recession and the COVID crisis.
> 4. I believe Vice President Harris will uphold the rule of law and
the integrity of government
> institutions by valuing experience. expertise, and the ability to
work across party lines.
> 5. Vice President Harris has promised to sign legislation to
strengthen control of US borders to
> contain the pressures caused by the breakdown of civil society in
several Latin American
> countries. I believe she will strive to put in place a smart and
thoughtful approach to legal
> immigration to the United States.
> 6. I believe Vice President Harris will uphold support for Ukraine
in its fight to repel the Russian
> invasion and to become a strong and independent democratic state.
> 7. I believe Vice President Harris will uphold Israel�s right to
security and safety and seek a
> solution to provide a stable foundation for the safety, security,
and well-being of the Palestinian
> people.
> 8. I believe Vice President Harris will continue the Biden
administration's policy of maintaining
> military strength in relation to China, protecting American
industries from unfair and harmful
> trade practices engaged in by businesses and other institutions in
China, while seeking to
> maintain diplomatic engagement to increase cooperation and reduce
friction between the United
> States and this important country.
> 9. I believe Vice President Harris will actively protect the civil
rights of Americans and the human
> rights of all peoples, including the autonomy of women in decisions
about becoming mothers
> and seek to avoid undue government interference in matters of
personal identity and personal
> relationships.
> 10. I believe Vice President Harris will defend the right of every
U.S. citizen to vote and facilitate
> exercise of the franchise by all U.S. citizens.
> Michael
> > PART II WHY NOT TO VOTE FOR DT
> > In my last post, I listed 10 reasons why I plan to vote for
Vice-President Harris as the next
> President of the United States. While I prefer to stay on the
positive side, I feel that it is
> important to also mention in a sober and level-headed way the
reasons why I believe it would be
> a mistake to vote for the election of former President Trump to a
second term:
> 1. I do not believe that electing the former President will bring
back the low inflation and cheaper
> prices of 2017 to 2019 hoped for my many of his supporters. The
increase in the prices of food,
> housing and energy have been due mainly to supply shortages and
dislocations caused by
> COVID and the disruption in maritime shipping by the wars in
Ukraine and the Middle East. A
> second Trump administration will not have any magic path to restore
pre-COVID price levels.
> 2. I believe the largely untargeted tax cuts advocated by the
former President will worsen the
> income and asset gap between the wealthiest members of our society
and the millions of other
> > Americans who are struggling "to make ends meet" and
seems to be at the root of the "populist"
> mood in much of our country.
> 3. Universal tariff increases on imported goods and technology from
abroad prominently
> advocated by the former President will, I believe, stoke the very
inflation that is of so much
> concern to many Americans today and have an adverse boomerang
effect on our economy and
> national security.
> 4. Replacing many members of the Federal civil service with persons
favorable to the former
> > President's political agenda, as he has suggested, will gravely
weaken the impartial and non-
> partisan ethos of the Federal civil service, one of the outstanding
accomplishments of the late
> > 19th century Republican Party.
> 5. The former President's apparent plan to engage in a mass
deportation of undocumented
> aliens will create a crucial labor shortage in key sectors of the
agriculture. construction and
> service industries (among others), and risks to weaken proper legal
protections for documented
> aliens and lawful permanent residents of our country.
> 6. Former President Trump has blamed Ukrainian President Zelensky
for the full-scale invasion
> of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022. I see no merit in this
allegation. I fear election of former
> President Trump will weaken the position of Ukraine in its effort
to maintain its independence
> and territorial integrity.
> 7. The former President has begun to speak about Americans who do
not agree with his policies
> as �enemies from within.� This characterization contradicts the
fundamental respect for diversity
> in thought and politics and for freedom of expression and speech
that is a cornerstone of what it
> is to be an American.
> 8. The former President's preference to leave to the States
questions about the autonomy of
> women in decisions about parenthood is misplaced because
fundamental human rights are
> universal in nature. Leaving a patchwork of inconsistent rules
among U.S. States in this
> sensitive area creates confusion and suffering for many women,
medical professionals and
> others.
> 9. The peaceful transfer of power between Presidents is a keystone
of our system of national
> governance. There is little likelihood that a re-elected President
Trump would support limiting the
> use of the improper stratagems and theories used to try to
delegitimize the 2020 Presidential
> election.
> 10. I believe there is little doubt that former President Trump
failed to intervene and stop the
> attempted occupation of the Capitol of the United States for
several crucial hours on January 6th
> 2021. I believe we need to elect as President a person fully
committed to "protect and defend
> the Constitution" under all circumstances.
> Michael
> > PART III THE ECONOMY CLAIM AGAINST BIDEN (and, by implication KH)
> > Those inclined to vote for former President Trump often say that
the economy for them was
> > better in the Trump years before the onset of the COVID crisis than
they have been in the post-
> COVID years of the Biden administration. By this, they generally
refer to the inflation in the costs
> > of food, housing and energy. The implication is that the economic
policies of former President
> Trump created the better conditions during his administration and
that the policies of the Biden
> administration have created and are responsible for the recent
inflation and sense of economic
> crisis.
> I believe both of these conclusions are mistaken. First, the
relative low inflation from 2017
> through 2019, I believe, represented the results of the efforts to
stabilize and grow the economy
> by the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve after the Great
Recession. I believe that
> little of this relative prosperity (including wage increases for
African-American men alluded to by
> commentators such as Bret Stephens) can be attributed to the
explicit policies or initiatives of
> the Trump administration (with the possible exception of some
modest stimulus from modest tax
> decreases for middle-class families in the 2017 tax legislation).
> > On the other hand - and I think this has to be said very loudly and
clearly - the inflation in the
> post COVID period Is mainly the result first of the severe supply
chain disruptions due to the
> shutdowns, quarantines and restrictions on productivity resulting
from the need to contain the
> COVID virus. More recently, inflation has been exacerbated by
severe interruptions in shipping
> by the war in Ukraine and the wars in the Middle East, and threats
to the safety of maritime
> traffic. While the combined stimulus packages of the CARES Act
(passed towards the end of the
> Trump administration) and the American Recovery Plan (passed early
in the Biden
> administration) may said to have also been factors, these Acts I
believe largely saved America
> from a depression or terrible recession in the wake of COVID. I
believe it is also undisputable
> that the rate of inflation has significantly fallen in the last
year, largely due to the careful policies
> of the Federal Reserve augmented by the policies of the Biden
administration.
> Thus, I believe that voting for former President Trump on the
premise that he can better run the
> economy or restore the price levels in the first couple of years of
his administration is based on
> faulty assumptions and is gravely mistaken. The proposals for an
across-the-board tariff on
> foreign imports of good and technology proposed by the former
President is intrinsically
> inflationary and likely to reverse the steady if still incomplete
progress in checking inflation while
> working to increase wage levels.
> One of my disappointments in the debate during this election season
is that there has not been
> a more comprehensible discussion about the reasons for the economic
pain experienced by
> many Americans despite the state of our economy being what Heather
Cox Richardson calls
> "the envy of the world." I believe that the long-term
infrastructure, research and development,
> and capital commitment legislation passed during the Biden
administration is a major
> accomplishment that a Harris administration will sustain and build
on, but that a second Trump
> administration is more likely to undermine and undo by misguided
approaches such as the
> Trump campaign's tariff proposals. Thus, I think that voters for
whom the state of the economy is
> a major concern should be voting for the Harris-Walz ticket so that
the foundations for a strong
> U.S. economy laid by the Biden administration can be built on and
strengthened.
> Michael
> > Part IV THE DO-NOTHING CLAIM AGAINST KH
> > Former President Trump and Senator Vance have often suggested that
somehow Vice
> President Harris could have seen to the enactment of her policy
proposals and initiatives during
> the three years she has been Vice President.
> I think this suggestion is unfair - and very ironic as well - for
the following reasons:
> First, very obviously, the Vice President is not the President and
therefore has not had unilateral
> control of the Biden administration�s agenda.
> But more importantly, President Biden and Vice President Harris
have tried to advance some of
> the Vice-President's proposals and others that flow from a belief
in the power of government to
> maintain fairness and opportunity in our economic and social
systems. A striking example to me
> is the expanded childcare credit, which was passed temporarily
under the American Recovery
> Plan in 2021 but had to be pared back in the 2022 budget
negotiations due to opposition mainly
> from Republican lawmakers and, yes, a few Democratic or independent
lawmakers, especially
> in the U.S. Senate. Other plans to provide initiatives designed to
support workers in the service
> economy had to be scrapped because of opposition largely if not
exclusively from Republican
> lawmakers.
> To ensure that more of the proposals and initiatives proposed by
Vice President Harris can be
> fairly considered, refined, and implemented requires not only on
electing Vice President Harris
> to be the next President of the United States but also on electing
a majority of Senators and
> Representatives who understand the potential of government to
support economic security and
> encourage fair competition and a level playing field for
entrepreneurship and investment, be
> they Democrats, Independents or Republicans who are willing to work
with the Vice-President in
> pursuit of her goals for our country and its people.
> > Michael
hey, did he even touch on healthcare ?
are we really going back?
VOTE VOTE VOTE inflation reduction act....see, i was wrong. biden did it. sharp
spike, then just as quickly, he harnessed them brought it back down,
but, as we all agree, NOT ENOUGH!!!!!!....not quite all the way back
down at all, and THIS IS NUMBER ONE ON VP HARRIS' TO DO LIST. federal ban, no price gauging on groceries.
etc....food, energy, housing....
dear g-d, please make this narcissism go away!!!!!
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