Kamala’s “Plan” — A Lot Of Words, Zero Specifics
September 25, 2024
Kamala just wrapped up her "big" economic speech — in which she offered zero specifics, zero vision, and zero solutions to the economic calamity she has unleashed over the past four years.
While her speech was heavy on meaningless word salad, Kamala didn't outline a single new proposal or initiative. Instead, she lied about President Trump's record and gaslit Americans on the Radical Left lunacy she will enact if she wins in November.
- Kamala admitted Americans "need to move past the failed policies that we have proven don't work."
- It's an inadvertent indictment of the inflationary spending, misguided trade policies, and socialist energy policies that have defined the past four years.
- It's an inadvertent indictment of the inflationary spending, misguided trade policies, and socialist energy policies that have defined the past four years.
- Kamala lied (repeatedly) about her record on manufacturing jobs.
- Harris-Biden "created" just 184,000 manufacturing jobs during their first 38 months in office; President Trump created 414,000 manufacturing jobs over the same period.
- After taking into account jobs added back post-pandemic and massive downward revisions, Kamala actually "created" just 32,000 manufacturing jobs.
- Kamala admitted she destroyed the American Dream.
- Under Kamala, the cost of homeownership is at its highest in three decades — with the median housing payment up $1,000/month and overall housing costs up nearly 50%.
- Under Kamala, the cost of homeownership is at its highest in three decades — with the median housing payment up $1,000/month and overall housing costs up nearly 50%.
- Kamala claimed her "top priority" would be "lowering costs."
- So why hasn't she done it already? Under Kamala, inflation has cost the average American family an extra $29,000 paying for the higher cost of living as prices remain sky-high for literally everything.
- So why hasn't she done it already? Under Kamala, inflation has cost the average American family an extra $29,000 paying for the higher cost of living as prices remain sky-high for literally everything.
- Kamala regurgitated "proposals" she plagiarized directly from President Trump.
- She reiterated her call to prioritize skills over degree requirements in federal hiring — which President Trump did through executive order in 2020.
- She repeated her "plan" to increase the startup deduction for small businesses — copied straight from President Trump’s own 2018 proposal — to mask her tax hike on 26 million small businesspeople.
- Kamala lied about President Trump's trade record with China.
- President Trump brought China to its knees and brought in billions of dollars through his tariffs — which were so successful, her administration left most of them in place and even expanded them.
- President Trump brought China to its knees and brought in billions of dollars through his tariffs — which were so successful, her administration left most of them in place and even expanded them.
- Kamala bragged about taking "major steps forward" from the economy she "inherited."
- She left out the part where inflation is HIGHER, gas prices are HIGHER, mortgage rates are HIGHER, and real average weekly earnings are LOWER than when she took office.
- She left out the part where inflation is HIGHER, gas prices are HIGHER, mortgage rates are HIGHER, and real average weekly earnings are LOWER than when she took office.
- Kamala vowed (again) to implement a Venezuela-style price control scheme.
- Her proposal would dismantle necessary supply-and-demand signals of the free market and lead to higher prices for consumers.
- Her proposal would dismantle necessary supply-and-demand signals of the free market and lead to higher prices for consumers.
- Kamala insisted she wants Americans "to be able to not just get by, but be able to get ahead."
- More Americans than ever live paycheck-to-paycheck under Kamala — so why hasn't she done that already?
There's a reason her speech was panned as lacking specifics — because it had none:
- Elizabeth Schulze, ABC News: "For those of us who have been waiting for more specifics of what does that childcare policy look like? What is it that she's calling for? We're not getting that at this point in the campaign."
- Shira Stein, The San Francisco Chronicle: "The problem that we're encountering with all of these is that we're getting a vision of her economic agenda, her policy agenda, but we're not getting specifics."
- Phil Wegmann, RealClearPolitics: "As she is putting forward a 'new way forward,' she is currently in office. She currently has access to the levers of power."
