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   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   
      
   WILBURRRRRRRRR!!!!!! I'M WAITING FOR   
   BOBBEE!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY ARE YOU SO ANNOYING!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!   
      
      
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