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   From: stupid@midgets.com   
      
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   On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris gave her first big economic policy   
   speech as the Democratic presidential nominee. It was, of course, very   
   different from the “economic” speech and news conferences Donald Trump has   
   held in the past couple of    
   weeks.   
      
   For one thing, Harris actually outlined her economic proposals, rather than   
   veering off onto topics like who has the biggest crowds and how windmills are   
   killing birds. For another, she doesn’t seem to have said anything   
   demonstrably untrue — a sharp    
   contrast with Trump, who lied or distorted the facts about twice per minute   
   during an event at Mar-a-Lago.   
      
   But what about the substance? The usual suspects are claiming that Harris   
   revealed herself to be an extreme leftist. Even some middle-of-the-road   
   economic commentators have been hyperventilating, saying that she’s   
   essentially calling for price controls,   
    which is odd, because she didn’t say anything like that.   
      
   All in all, Harris staked out a moderately center-left position, not too   
   different from President Biden’s original Build Back Better agenda, which he   
   was able to implement only in part because in an evenly divided Senate, Joe   
   Manchin had an effective    
   veto.   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/opinion/kamala-harris-economic-agenda.html   
      
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