Voters need to learn more about the economic priorities of Vice President Kamala Harris. President Biden’s Biden-nomics could soon be Harris’s Kamala-nomics.
Harris’s pledge that “we’re not going back” likely means that she plans to keep and strengthen Biden-nomics rather than return to a saner economic policy. At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Harris, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, former president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, former president Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, and others shouted, “We Love Joe.” Democrats also love Biden-nomics.
While Democrats may love Biden and Bidenomics, they must ask themselves if independent voters will love Biden’s economic policies when they cast their ballots in November. Uncertainty over voter support of Biden-nomics puts Harris in an unusual position. Harris is campaigning against herself and the Biden-Harris policies as she campaigns against Donald Trump.
Biden-nomics, according to Biden, is “about growing the economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down. It’s an economic vision where we make smart investments in America, educate and empower American workers, and promote competition to lower costs and help small businesses.” Biden-Harris wants to transform the U.S. economy while ignoring the economic pain.
With Biden out of the political picture, Harris is now in charge of transforming the economy. She will need help doing that. She’s going to need political leaders who have, say, transformed their state’s economy. She needs to look no further than her longtime pal, California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Newsom has successfully transformed California into a homeless, drug-addicted paradise and psychiatric ward for drifters who have checked out of productive lives to live off taxpayers and crime. Newsom’s bizarre political success has caused many Californians to flee.
Harris influenced Biden to select former California Attorney General Xavier Beccera as secretary of Health and Human Services. Beccera was ill-qualified for the position. Harris influenced Biden to select the equally ill-qualified Julie Su to succeed the equally ill-qualified Marty Walsh, former Boston mayor, to lead the Department of Labor. Congress has wisely chosen not to confirm Su, another failed California politician.
With Biden out, Harris is ready to bring Newsom to Washington to use his “successful leadership” to help America. For Harris to say that Newsom has turned California around by humanely managing the problems of homelessness and drug addiction is material for Rod Serling’s “Twilight Zone.”
Biden and Harris say they want to help small businesses compete against the corporations. As a senator from Delaware, Biden voted for policies that enriched and enabled corporations. In 2024, Biden wants voters to think he has finally wised up to anti-competitive corporate practices. Having reached this wisdom state, Biden has been politically cast off to Never Never Land. Nancy Pelosi loves you, Joe!
Harris is ready to lead America. She wants to get rid of anti-competitive practices in the economy. She wants voters to think that anti-competitive corporate practices, not the vast Biden-Harris regulatory burdens, cause high consumer prices for food and energy. Harris wants “fair” prices for consumers.
Harris suggests she would use a system of government-controlled prices to achieve “fair” prices. Historically, price controls have increased demand and led to shortages. Under a Harris price control policy, Americans could face more supply chain shortages.
If there is one thing Harris hates, it is price gouging. If Harris is elected president, she would likely unleash her massive federal bureaucracy to investigate price gouging at every American corporation in hopes that consumers would see lower retail prices for food and energy. Not likely.
Harris’s “price gouging police” might also interfere with production and create supply chain shortages. Perhaps Harris will appoint Biden as “supply chain czar.” Biden is already an expert on supply chain shortages caused by his policies. It would also be Harris’s payback for Biden making her the border czar. This is a form of political “justice” in Washington.
Now that Biden has passed the political baton to Harris, he has time to apply his great mind — “sharp as ever,” according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre — to solving America’s supply chain problems. While “Supply Chain Czar Joe” has a ring to it, I suspect a President Harris would select a younger face for the job.
Harris loves you, Joe!