Were the original written in crayon? Imagine how long it took her staff to come up with this feel good drivel. It also begs the question of why the administration she is part of has done none of this.
Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
As I posted on Twitter:
De Re Publica, 1.6.11
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Maximeque hoc in hominum doctorum oratione mihi mirum videri solet, quod qui tranquillo mari gubernare se negent posse, quod nec didicerint nec umquam scire curaverint, iidem ad gubernacula se accessuros profiteantur excitatis maximis fluctibus.
And this usually seems to me most greatly amazing in the speech of men’s teachers, that those who deny that they can steer on a calm sea, which they have neither learned nor even cared to know, the same profess that they would approach the helm with the greatest waves stirred up.
What?
Maybe she thinks she’s running for class president. Her style and sincerity is reminiscent of a certain Pedro who was running for president.
His campaign genius?
If you vote for me all of your wildest dreams will come true.
The debate will be very interesting.
I can picture her saying something along this line;
Americans are a diverse group of individuals who live within an area that is large and expansive. In this moment of time unlike other moments, because this is an unique moment, these people, Americans, are preparing to cast their vote for a President. That is why I am here…giggle giggle.
Please consider this;
She passed the bar exam. She worked as a prosecutor. She held two executive positions in California. And everything she says suggests she’s a shallow dimwit.
I’m guessing some post-adolescent on her staff consulted an AI chat bot to come up with those..
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While we’re at it.
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A1. The populations for which the federal government should provide or finance housing are properly limited to (1) civilian employees of the federal government posted abroad (and their dependents), (2) servicemen and their dependents, (3) federal inmates of various sorts (in prisons, in jails, in halfway houses or in long term care centers operated by the VA), (4) emergency shelters during natural disasters. That’s the outer boundary; many of these people will prefer to make other arrangements.
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A2. Federal involvement in the regulatory regime governing housing and other sorts of real estate should begin and end with (1) rules governing the use of federal property, (2) health and safety regulations on building materials and manufactured housing shipped across state borders, (3) the actuarial soundness of lenders, and (4) consumer protection law governing real estate transactions which take place between parties domiciled in different states.
B1. Governments should not be ‘investing’ in a blessed thing other than conventional public works. And that’s a function largely devolved.
B2. Small business are properly required to calculate withholdings on employee pay stubs correctly (or hire a company who will) and to forward them to the IRS. They’re also properly subject to consumer protection law &c. in their dealings with out-of-state customers. The actuarial soundness of certain employee benefit programs are properly of interest to federal authorities. If they were issued a charter by the State of Delaware but are not located in Delaware, they’re properly subject to federal corporation taxes. The degree to which they can expose their employees to chemical agents or radiation with delayed effects is properly regulated. Were a federal value-added tax imposed, they’d be properly liable. If they’re shipping vice goods out of state, federal authorities have an interest in that. Otherwise, they should be left alone; we have these things called state governments.
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C. What ‘bad actors’ and which ‘costs’?
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D1. Governments may undertake public health measures, regulate certain activities, finance medical research, finance medical care, and finance long term care. These may have benefits and costs. (Do you really want Anthony Fauci as the czar of medical research patronage?). Do they ‘strengthen health care’? What does that even mean?
D2. You cannot ‘bring down the cost of health care’. You can generate some productive efficiencies and re-introducing actual prices as an allocative device. That in turn requires service providers to post their prices and arranging for third-party financing to kick in only when charges exceed a notable deductible. That would be a good thing to do. However, when you make explicit costs which were previously opaque, that arouses people’s ire. It should not, but it does. In the realm of medical care, different systems gore different constituencies. A great many people are too emotionally invested in their complaints to be reached with explanations.
E. You want to ‘strengthen and protect’ Social Security and Medicare, you do so by making it more actuarially sound. You do this by (1) having retirement ages which vary by birth cohort, so the ratio of the beneficiary population to the working population bounces around a set point and (2) having the share of total personal income flow devoted to Medicare bounce around a set point by the aforementioned recalculation of retirement ages and by instituting deductibles and adjusting them annually, and (3) fighting mission creep and procedural inanities in the Disability program. (As we speak, 1/4 of all SSDI beneficiaries receive benefits due to ‘anxiety disorders’ or ‘mood disorders’). Now, the implication of such a program had it been instituted in 1980 would have been that the retirement age would have increased by two months per birth cohort with early retirement phased out by 2001; the people entering the beneficiary population this year would be the 1956 cohort. ==
Fat chance 5x over.
“Take on bad actors and bring down costs”
Finally! Someone is finally going to do something about Hollywood and those awful movie prices.
What? That isn’t what she means?
Taking down bad actors?
When I read that the first bad actor I thought of was Kamala herself.
@Art.
Why does she play the twit?
Are those nebulous word salad explanations a game? If so, why?
Vino?
I would love it if the Trump page had a section that was also labeled Kamala Harris: Issues
1) Favors heavy handed state control of economy
2) Ineffective and apathetic border enforcement
3) Mandatory gun buybacks
4) Expressed desire to tax money you haven’t made yet…
It would be a longer list than the one Harris published!
Folks, If you can’t see all this as absolute incontrovertible proof that as the stalinists did with Biden , and with Barry Soetoro, they are going to steal this election, then you cannot see what is right in front of your face. I give up. I am weak. I surrender to you, Almighty God. Take care of everything.. Guy, Texas
Why didn’t they steal 2016 Guy?
Donald,
In 2016 they gave Hillary an unlosable opportunity. They didn’t steal it because they didn’t think they needed to (that’s not to say that there wasn’t voter fraud, just not enough). They haven’t made that mistake in the two elections since.
Why didn’t they steal 2004 CAG? How about the Congressional elections in 2010 and 2014?
Donald, is it your contention that election fraud and irregularities don’t occur?!? (You know I live in Florida, right? I think Al Gore is still counting chads! 😆)
I’ll just leave this here:
https://notthebee.com/article/a-loophole-in-wisconsin-election-law-will-let-up-to-150000-people-vote-without-showing-id
Donald, is it your contention that election fraud and irregularities don’t occur?!?
They occur all the time, but I am skeptical that they often affect the outcome. I think that 2020 may have been the exception due to the massive amount of mail in ballots.
Mail-in ballots and no signature checks. There’s nothing to stop that this go-round either. Pennsylvania had already ruled that mis-dated and unsigned ballots must be counted.
In 2020 Biden won Arizona by a little over 10k votes. This year they’ve purged over 30k illegal aliens who had registered to vote from voter rolls in Maricopa County alone. It’s a Democrat run state, so I doubt they’re looking too hard.
Literally half of the country hates the orange man. Some people actually think it’s their patriotic duty to make sure he loses by hook or crook. We can only hope the margin is too large to overcome … But the Biden administration had handed voter’s registration cards to 8.5 million “newcomers”, so …