Kamala Harris economic plan to focus on groceries, housing and healthcare
Kamala Harris economic plan to focus on groceries, housing and healthcare
www.theguardian.com
Kamala Harris economic plan to focus on groceries, housing and healthcare
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Exactly my pain points!
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Smack childcare on there and I think it covers what most all of working people need relief from.
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Gee, if only there was some proposed legislation the last time Democrats had a majority about childcare.
Oh yeah, the most recent rotating villain killed it.
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You mean rather than tax cuts that are supposedly to benefit people too poor to pay taxes?
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I was literally talking about housing costs with my wife on our walk back from the grocery store not 30m before stumbling across this post.
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First article I’ve seen where her photo wasn’t a big smile. At least since Biden dropped out.
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Doesn't need plan for future. Can fix now. Like today.
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I mean isn't she the vice president? Why can't she do that shit now?
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You do know the Vice President has little actual power, right? Pretty much the only power they can exercise on their own behalf (rather than being delegated by the president) is the tiebreaking vote in the Senate.
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Because she's the vice president. What powers does she have other than influence?
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Among the plans from the Harris campaign is a federal ban on price-gouging in the industries. Most states currently have such bans in place.
O...kay.
Harris will single out meat prices, and in particular the meat-processing industry. Her first 100 days will also see support for small businesses, a “crack down on unfair mergers and acquisitions” among food corporations.
Bird flu and swine flu are two of the biggest pressure points on agricultural supply. Heat and drought are also doing horrible things to cattle stock. Will her support for small businesses address this? Guess we'll have to tune in next week to find out.
Harris no longer supports measures from her short-lived 2020 presidential bid such as a fracking ban or Medicare for All, advisers told Reuters.
sigh
Her campaign said it wanted to avoid dividing voters and attracting attacks from business groups over granular details
mega-sigh
She will push plans to cut costs of rental housing and home ownership, including funding more affordable housing and building climate resistant communities.
Sounds nice. Wonder what the details will look like.
“She does have a focus on housing because we know and she knows very, very clearly that housing is a crisis in this country,” said Marcia Fudge, a Harris adviser and the former housing and urban development secretary under Biden.
glances at the housing market under Biden
Oof.
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Yes, yes. We all know that you folks have moved on from "don't vote for Biden" to "don't vote for Harris."
This country really needs Project 2025, doesn't it?
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Who said not to vote for her?
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I think its more like when you see somebody step on a rake and it hits them in the face. The natural response is to be like "oh no" . Fortunately these are second hand sources and Walz is hopefully on hand to check some of the more lawyer tendencies when dealing with the public.
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don’t vote for Harris
I'm curious to know what Harris stands for and this article doesn't seem to offer much.
This country really needs Project 2025, doesn’t it?
Project 2025 seems bad and I wouldn't suggest voting for a guy like Vance or Trump, given his support of it. But Harris's response appears to be to just not talk about policy and campaign without upsetting anybody.
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You didn’t say how any of her plans are going to be bad for America. Why don’t you go to the points you highlife and tell us how they’re going to hurt Americans. Show us you really understand the things you don’t like.
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Fracking is contributing to climate change and can harm local environments.
Medicare for all is a popular progressive universal health care solution.
In an ideal world her positions on these would at best be the platform of the right wing candidate.
In our world the "left" candidate continues to be right of global center
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Yeah that "will single out meat prices" got my eyes rolling so hard I might have a knot in my nerves now.
Meat production is one of the main contributors to the climate crisis. We need to produce less of it. I get that campaigning with that message would probably not be popular, but just focussing on groceries would have been enough right?
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It's also just one of those things where people will never be happy. Unless you can get a prime cut porterhouse for a nickel, you're going to have the ahem meat heads screaming that you've failed them. Would love to buy a head of lettuce for under $3, though. Or a bag of onions. We used to practically give away corn and now it's two ears for $1.
So much basic foodstuff has skyrocketed in price, well before you get to the pork chops and chilean seabass.
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Bird flu and swine flu are two of the biggest pressure points on agricultural supply. Heat and drought are also doing horrible things to cattle stock. Will her support for small businesses address this?
Are we pretending that the American meat industry is small business now?
As for housing, the ONLY answer is to remove corporate ownership of single-family dwellings.
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Are we pretending that the American meat industry is small business now?
This isn't a "small business" problem. Firms like Tyson and Smithfield can suffer hundreds of millions in loses in the event of a livestock flu outbreak. Their mega-farms and super-sized slaughterhouses are rife with disease, which is why their animals have to be pumped full of antibiotics and antivirals practically from birth. And that's before you get into the risk of their ag workers getting infected by a mutant strain and turning the disease into a global pandemic. The so-called Spanish Flu got started on a pig farm just outside a Kansas City military base, before spreading to the front lines in Europe during America's late entry into WW1.
That's the kind of enormous tail risks the meat industry is juggling right now. And its a major driver behind inflating pork, chicken, and egg prices.
As for housing, the ONLY answer is to remove corporate ownership of single-family dwellings.
No way Harris does anything even resembling this. The Real Estate Industry would revolt en mass.
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Them politicians are soo out of touch
Reads headline again
Wait, what the hell? Really? Should I start being optimistic again?
No probably not. But let’s at Bernie was president.
He would work in the confides of capitalism but there is another win:
A progress president would open the conversation to move further towards socialism.
Americans first need to stop fearing socialism, and imo Kamala might help a little with that. I’m not holding my breath though
Baby steps. If things are less bad for 4 or 8 years, progressive policies become more palatable for people. This gets you closer to your ideal state.
Ok, but it's not gonna happen.
The day a neoliberal actually follows through on their working class election promises is the day that pigs fly. They just tell us this stuff because they know it's what we want to hear and will get them elected. After the election, 'priorities' always change and they'll suddenly be telling us why they absolutely have to give a bailout to some company like Comcast because it's best for America. I have a bit more optimism from someone like her than Biden, but I have no faith in the party or it's leadership.
Go back to mother Russia. Just off the top of my head with 30 seconds of thinking about it and no research:
Obama: Implemented "Obamacare" allowing millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions to get affordable healthcare for the first time.
Biden: Limits on predatory interest rates across the board. Limited Insulin prices.
Both of them have actively gone after people and businesses ripping of medicare which universally helps the working class through better care and lower taxes.
But sure, they've done NOTHING for the working class.