Questions Trump should ask Harris at upcoming debate

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Questions Trump should ask Harris at upcoming debate
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Commentary
By Scott Walker - Thursday, September 5, 2024
OPINION:

Former President Donald Trump should ask Vice President Kamala Harris
these questions at the upcoming debate:

Do you still support “Bidenomics”? The typical family is paying nearly
$900 more per month than in January 2021, when President Biden and Vice
President Kamala Harris took office, to live at approximately the same
level they were at the time. Overall, prices are up 20%. Gas is up about
$1.25 per gallon in Wisconsin from four years ago. Housing is up nearly
30%. If you still support Bidenomics, how much worse will it get if we
have four more years of it?

Why are you campaigning on a promise to lower prices on Day One of your
presidency if you and the president can take action right now? You are
the vice president of the United States. Lower taxes, less government
spending, reductions in bureaucratic red tape and increased domestic
energy production helped lower prices in the four years before you were
in office. Why would voters not want a new president who would help
lower prices again? And why would they believe that you can do it when
you haven’t done so in your more than three and a half years in office?

Why are the problems with border security worse than they were four
years ago? Mr. Biden appointed you as the point person on illegal
immigration. Why did the Biden-Harris administration undo so many of the
positive reforms enacted by the prior administration that slowed down
illegal border crossing?

Why did you oppose the construction of a wall along the southern border
but now support it? When you ran for president, you called construction
of the wall a “medieval vanity project.” In April 2017, you said that it
was a “stupid use of money” and pledged to “block any funding for it.”
And in February 2020, you wrote on social media that Mr. Trump’s border
wall was a “complete waste of money and won’t make us any safer.” It
sounds like the change in your position is based more on the polling in
battleground states such as Arizona and Nevada than a shift in policy
positions.

Do you still support the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan? You
said that you were the last one in the room with Mr. Biden when the
decision was made that ultimately led to the death of 13 American
service members.

Why did you support a ban on fracking? In 2020, you said, “There’s no
question I’m in favor of banning fracking.” Now that Pennsylvania is a
key state, you seem to be changing your position on this important
issue. Greater energy production at home helped us keep prices
reasonable during our term in office. Fuel costs have increased during
the Biden-Harris administration.

Do you believe that killing an unborn baby just before birth should be
legal? What, if any, laws would you support that would protect the life
of an unborn baby who can feel pain? Do you believe it should be legal
for someone to kill a baby hours after he or she is born? If not, why
should it be legal hours before it is born?

Why do you support forcing us all to drive expensive electric vehicles?
In the Senate, you were one of five original co-sponsors of the
Zero-Emission Vehicles Act of 2019. That bill would require automobile
manufacturers to sell only zero-emission cars and trucks by 2040. This
would put the price of a vehicle out of reach of the typical American.

Then Mr. Trump should turn to the camera and ask the American people
this simple question: “Are you better off today than you were four years
ago before COVID?” He should continue: “The answer for most Americans
will be an overwhelming no. Prices are up, the border is less secure and
many have real public safety concerns. All of that, and more, can get
much better if we elect a true change candidate.

“Many of you have supported me in the past. For that, I am thankful.
Others have not. You may not like my style or some of my posts on social
media. Electing a president, however, is not a popularity contest. It is
about electing a leader who will enact policies to protect our country
and citizens.”

”Some of my critics claim that I will do outrageous things in the next
four years. Why would I not have done them during my first term if that
were true? They are purely scare tactics meant to distract you from the
truth that life was better for most Americans when I was in office than
it has been since Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris took office. That is why I
ask for your vote — to make America great again!”

• Scott Walker is president of Young America’s Foundation and served as
the 45th governor of Wisconsin from 2011 to 2019.


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[Jim Wilkins]

"a425couple" wrote in message news:9tJCO.43877$***@fx41.iad...

Why are you campaigning on a promise to lower prices on Day One of your
presidency if you and the president can take action right now?

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If they actually gave us the benefits they would lose the value of campaign
promises. It's like the carrot permanently dangling in front of a donkey to
motivate it.

[Baxter]

Post by a425couple
Why are you campaigning on a promise to lower prices on Day One of
your presidency if you and the president can take action right now?

That's a mis-statement of what she actually promised

Post by a425couple
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If they actually gave us the benefits they would lose the value of
campaign promises. It's like the carrot permanently dangling in front
of a donkey to motivate it.

But somehow that doesn't apply to tRump?

Hypocracy thy name is "Jim Wilkins"

[Mittens Romney]

Post by Baxter

Post by Jim Wilkins
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If they actually gave us the benefits they would lose the value of
campaign promises. It's like the carrot permanently dangling in front
of a donkey to motivate it.

But somehow that doesn't apply to tRump?

The reality of CmmmieLa:

You knew their Marxist agenda was not going to stop with drug prices,

Hell no, they want to control ALL our food too!

Next stop on the clown car - Venezuela, USA:

https://x.com/RobertMSterling/status/1824840348008391127

@RobertMSterling
People need to stop overreacting about Kamala’s plan to reduce food
inflation, as if it would lead to communism, mass starvation, and the
end of America.

I worked in M&A in the food industry. Here’s a step-by-step summary of
what would actually happen:

1. The government announces that grocery retailers aren’t allowed to
raise prices.

2. Grocery stores, which operate on 1-2% net margins, can’t survive if
their suppliers raise prices. So the government announces that food
producers (Kraft Heinz, ConAgra, Tyson, Hormel, et. al.) also aren’t
allowed to raise prices.

3. Not all grocery stores are created equal. Stores in lower-income
areas make less money than those in higher-income areas, as the former
disproportionately sell lower-margin prepackaged foods (“center of the
store”) instead of higher-margin fresh products like meat (“perimeter of
the store”). Because stores in lower-income areas aren’t able to cover
overhead (remember, even if their wholesale costs are fixed, their
labor, utilities, insurance, and other operating expenses aren’t fixed…
yet), grocery chains start to shut them down. Food deserts in rural
areas and in low-income urban areas alike become worse.

4. Meanwhile, margins for food producers are also quickly eroding. Their
primary costs (ingredients, energy, and labor) aren’t fixed, and their
shrinking gross profits leave less cash flow available to cover
overhead, maintain facilities, and reinvest in additional production
capacity.

5. Grocery chains, which have finite shelf space, start to repurpose
their stores (those they didn’t have to shut down, I should say) to sell
more non-price-controlled items—everything from nutrition supplements to
kitchenware to apparel—and less price-controlled food products. Your
local Kroger or Safeway starts to look and feel more like a Walmart.

6. Food producers stop making products with lower margins. Grocery chain
start competing with each other to secure inventory. Since they can’t
compete by offering stronger prices (remember, producers aren’t allowed
to raise prices here, and, even if they could, grocery chains no longer
have the gross profit to bear price increases), they compete on things
like payment terms.

7. Small grocery chains start to shut down entirely, or get sold to
larger chains like Kroger. In addition to not being able to cover fixed
costs, a major reason for this is because they can no longer reliably
secure delivery of products, due to producers prioritizing sales to
larger customers, which are able to leverage their stronger balance
sheets to offer superior payment terms.

8. Smaller food producers—which typically sell via distributors, rather
than directly to grocery chains—start to go out of business. Because
these producers have an additional step their value chains, and because
they have lower volumes over which to spread their fixed costs, their
cost structure is inherently disadvantaged compared to major food
producers. When grocery stores aren’t able to raise prices, cutting
product costs becomes all the more important, and deprioritizing
purchases from smaller producers is an easy way to do so.

9. As supply chains break down, lines start to form outside grocery
stores every morning. Cities assign police officers to patrol store
parking lots, and food producers draft contingency plans to assign armed
escorts to delivery trucks.

10. The federal government announces a program to issue block grants for
states to purchase and operate shuttered grocery stores. The USDA also
seizes closed-down production facilities.

11. The government announces that prices for all key food costs—corn,
wheat, cattle, energy, etc.—are also now fixed, to stop “profiteers”
from gouging the now-government-operated food industry.

12. Shockingly, the government struggles to operate one of the most
complex industries on the planet. The entire food supply chain starts
imploding.

13. Communism, mass starvation, and the end of America quickly ensue.

Hey wait a second...????