{"id":2329769,"date":"2024-08-23T05:33:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T09:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/socialists-are-mad-harris-is-giving-them-what-they-thought-they-wanted-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T05:36:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T09:36:45","slug":"socialists-are-mad-harris-is-giving-them-what-they-thought-they-wanted-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/socialists-are-mad-harris-is-giving-them-what-they-thought-they-wanted-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialists are mad Harris is giving them what they thought they wanted &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsocialists-are-mad-harris-is-giving-them-what-they-thought-they-wanted-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2329769&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the reaction of socialists to Vice \u200cPresident Kamala Harris&#8217;s positions and policies, particularly regarding her support \u2063for Israel and economic measures. While some protesters express dissatisfaction with her moderate stance, they\u2063 acknowledge that many of her economic proposals coincide with their desires, such as price controls and pro-labor initiatives. However, critics argue that her policies, under the umbrella of &#8220;Bidenomics,&#8221; have contributed \u200dto significant \u200dinflation and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/protests-as-sri-lanka-runs-out-of-fuel-food-medicine\/\" title=\"Protests as Sri Lanka Runs out of Fuel, Food, Medicine\">rising living costs<\/a>, adversely affecting working-class individuals\u2063 more than wealthier citizens. The piece points out a contradiction in\u200b socialist sentiments, as they demand policies that may lead to detrimental inflationary consequences. The article concludes that Harris, despite\u200d being targeted \u2064by some protesters, is attempting to meet their demands but is\u2063 faced \u2063with the unintended repercussions of such policies.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Socialists are mad Harris is giving them what they thought they wanted<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_815348\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>CHICAGO &mdash; <\/strong>Although the barbarians outside the gates of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/dnc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Democratic National Convention<\/a> believe themselves to be opposed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris&rsquo;s<\/a> milquetoast support for our democratic ally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Israel<\/a>, even the angriest protesters admitted they like what the vice president has to say about the economy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;We would love price controls that actually work,&rdquo; one particularly hysterical demonstrator from Workers Strike Back said as he lambasted my suggestion that the Democratic presidential nominee would characterize herself as pro-labor. &ldquo;The price controls that work are a working class that&rsquo;s organized in powerful unions, that can win powerful games for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matters-most-prominent-chapter-launches-drive-targeting-police-unions\/\" title=\"Black Lives Matter\u2019s Most Prominent Chapter Launches Drive Targeting Police Unions\">working-class people<\/a>, and that&rsquo;s not the politics of your newspaper, is it?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s less that the politics of the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> want the working class to lose and more that central planning seldom results in the stated intentions of collectivists. The antisemitism of the socialists protesting Harris over her concession that Israel, indeed, has the right to exist means that they have to pretend to hate the Democratic presidential nominee. But it&rsquo;s clear both in her record and emerging proposals, as well as the concessions of the protesters, that Harris is trying to give them nearly everything they asked for &mdash; it just turns out that even socialists don&rsquo;t love the consequences of their policies.<\/p>\n<p>As the president of a near-evenly divided Senate, Harris served as the crucial swing vote to help enact the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan and the $1.2 trillion Inflation Reduction Act. This pair of laws form the cornerstones of retiring President Joe Biden&rsquo;s de facto Green New Deal. Those two votes by Harris were responsible for the majority of the <a href=\"https:\/\/committeetounleashprosperity.com\/research\/the-big-government-formula-for-double-digit-inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>excess inflation wrought<\/a> by &ldquo;Bidenomics,&rdquo; according to a new study by University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan. If Harris had gotten her wish of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-county-to-fund-universal-basic-income-program-that-restricts-initial-participants-by-race-and-sex\/\" title=\"California County To Fund Universal Basic Income Program That Restricts Initial Participants By Race And Sex\">universal basic income program<\/a>, inflation would have reached the Civil War&rsquo;s annual 20% inflation rate. And if Medicare for All had been enacted, one of the most ardent demands of socialists and a program Harris co-sponsored as a senator, Mulligan found that inflation would reach the triple digits, possibly spinning out to the speed of Weimar Republic hyperinflation.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically enough, even one of the women with Workers Strike Back understood the relationship between the annual $2 trillion deficits spent by Biden and Harris and the worst cost-of-living crisis in 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think what we know for sure is that under the Biden administration, working people suffered greatly, right?&rdquo; one anti-Harris protester said. &ldquo;Inflation was a major feature. In fact, the economy is something that&rsquo;s on all of working people&rsquo;s minds going into this election, and they&rsquo;re really dissatisfied with the &lsquo;Bidenomics&rsquo; that has claimed to really have improved our economy, and we know it improved the economy for the super wealthy, but working people didn&rsquo;t see a massive improvement. In fact, they saw their paycheck stretching even further because inflation was a major feature. Rents didn&rsquo;t stop going up, prices of groceries didn&rsquo;t stop going up, right? And so even the student debt cancellation that he promised kept getting dwindled down further and further.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As we have previously detailed at length in this column, inflation indeed hit every social strata of America, but it hasn&rsquo;t harmed all people equally. The overall consumer price index has risen more than 19% since Harris took office, nearly triple the Federal Reserve&rsquo;s maximum annual inflation target of 2%. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/beltway-confidential\/3124065\/inflation-hit-working-class-harder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Based on my analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data<\/a>, the average renter in the lowest quintile of earners, however, has experienced a staggering 32% increase in prices, whereas a homeowner in the wealthiest quintile of earners saw just 12% cumulative inflation. Further, the real average weekly wages of the entire lowest quintile of earners dropped by 5% compared to a mere 2% pay cut for the top quintile of earners.<\/p>\n<p>Even the World Socialist Web Site, which demonstrated with full force outside the DNC, understands this, even if it misstates the cause.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The U.S. economy is sustained through rampant government spending on military rearmament and continuous bailouts of major corporations,&rdquo; the WSWB wrote in pamphlets distributed in Chicago. &ldquo;The federal debt is doubling every decade and is being financed through currency debasement and debt monetization.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So close! Yes, the tax of inflation is exactly what is funding &ldquo;Bidenomics,&rdquo; but it&rsquo;s not being spent on defense, which is dramatically falling as a share of GDP. Rather, a full 78% of federal revenue collected so far in this fiscal year is being spent on entitlements (see: the generational wealth transfer of Social Security and the socialized healthcare of Medicare and Medicaid) and interest on the national debt, the latter category that alone already has superseded all Pentagon spending.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not that socialists hate Kamala Harris, who has more or less tried to give them everything they&rsquo;re asking for. It&rsquo;s just that everybody, socialists included, winds up hating the consequences of collectivism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_815348\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"815348\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socialists are frustrated that Harris is providing them with what they believed they desired. CHICAGO \u2014 While the protesters outside the Democratic National Convention claim to oppose Kamala Harris&#8217;s tepid backing of Israel, even the most vocal dissenters acknowledged their approval of her economic views. \u201cWe would love effective price controls,\u201d one particularly agitated member from Workers Strike Back remarked, criticizing my assertion that the Democratic presidential nominee would identify as pro-labor. \u201cEffective price controls come from a well-organized working class in strong unions that can secure significant gains for workers, which isn\u2019t aligned with your publication\u2019s politics, is it?\u201d The Washington Examiner&#8217;s stance isn&#8217;t about wanting the working class to fail; rather, it&#8217;s that central planning rarely achieves its intended goals. The antisemitism displayed by socialists protesting Harris over her acknowledgment of Israel&#8217;s right to exist forces them to feign disdain for the Democratic nominee. However, both her track record and emerging proposals indicate that Harris is attempting to meet many of their demands\u2014only for them to realize that even socialists are not fond of the outcomes produced by their policies.<\/p>\n<p>As president of a nearly evenly split Senate, Harris played a pivotal role in passing the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan and the $1.2 trillion Inflation Reduction Act\u2014two key pieces of legislation underpinning President Joe Biden\u2019s de facto Green New Deal. According to a recent study by University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan, these votes contributed significantly to inflation attributed to &#8220;Bidenomics.&#8221; Had Harris succeeded in implementing a universal basic income program, inflation could have soared as high as 20% annually like during the Civil War era; similarly, if Medicare for All had been enacted\u2014a program she co-sponsored\u2014it might have led inflation into triple digits reminiscent of Weimar Republic hyperinflation.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, one protester from Workers Strike Back recognized how Biden and Harris&#8217;s annual $2 trillion deficits correlate with today&#8217;s worst cost-of-living crisis in two decades: \u201cUnder Biden\u2019s administration, working people have suffered tremendously,\u201d she stated. \u201cInflation has been prominent&#8230; while it may seem like &#8216;Bidenomics&#8217; improved things for wealthy individuals, working-class people haven\u2019t seen substantial benefits.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>As previously discussed here at length, inflation has affected all socioeconomic groups across America but hasn&#8217;t impacted everyone equally; since Harris took office overall consumer prices have risen over 19%, nearly three times higher than the Federal Reserve\u2019s target annual rate of 2%. Analysis shows those in lower-income brackets faced an alarming 32% increase in costs compared to just 12% for wealthier homeowners.<\/p>\n<p>Even publications like World Socialist Web Site (WSWB), which protested vigorously outside DNC events recognize this issue\u2014albeit misattributing its cause: &#8220;The U.S economy relies on excessive government spending on military rearmament and ongoing bailouts,&#8221; they claimed through distributed pamphlets during protests.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s true inflation acts as a tax funding &#8220;Bidenomics,&#8221; it isn&#8217;t primarily directed towards defense spending\u2014which has decreased relative GDP\u2014but rather towards entitlements such as Social Security and healthcare programs like Medicare and Medicaid along with interest payments on national debt surpassing Pentagon expenditures.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately socialists don\u2019t actually despise Kamala Harris; she has largely attempted fulfilling their requests\u2014but everyone\u2014including socialists\u2014ends up disliking collectivism&#8217;s consequences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2693,"featured_media":2329770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Tiana_Mag_0828_b1.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32438,39042,5894,12428,32076],"class_list":["post-2329769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-kamala-harris","tag-left-wing-ideology","tag-politics","tag-socialism","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Tiana_Mag_0828_b1.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2329770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}