Kamala Wants Price Controls on Groceries, Venezuelan-Style

[Lisa558]

She said she'd stop gouging.

Not that she has the brain cells to tell you what that is.

Nobody can. What is the defintion ?

Government control of prices was tried by Nixon and it bit him in the ass big time.

She’s too stupid to know that Nixon tried it, and it failed.

Also, she didn’t say gouging. She said gauging. I do that all the time when I go grocery shopping - trying to gauge the cost. Alas, it’s always higher than my guess.

 

[HikerGuy83]

The government could devalue the currency more by printing a few trillion more dollars. Then we can take a wheelbarrow full of money to the store, hoping to buy a few rolls of toilet paper (if it's available), like they do in Venezuela!!!

As Alan Keye's once said:

"My ancestors had free housing, free food, free health care, free clothing. And they were called "slaves"".

The crowd went nuts !!!!

 

[HikerGuy83]

She said gauging.

Watch her, that was a teleprompter screw up.

She fumbled the word.

I'd love to take over that prompter when she's rambling.

Be a scene right out of Bruce Almighty !

 

[Lisa558]

No she isn’t saying any of that stuff. Which is why, 1. She isn’t a socialist and 2. The price gauging policy isn’t going anywhere

So your defense to Kamala’s stupid, harmful, Soviet-style promises is “she doesn’t mean it”?

 

[Slade3200]

There aren’t a limited number of businesses selling essential goods. We have tons of grocery stores, pharmacies, gas stations, etc.

In which town are you talking about?? Cause I know a bunch of towns reliant on very few businesses for that stuff

 

[Lisa558]

Watch her, that was a teleprompter screw up.

She fumbled the word.

I'd love to take over that prompter when she's rambling.

Be a scene right out of Bruce Almighty !

Wouldn’t it be great if the teleprompter failed, and she’d be left to her own devices?

It would be like Cinderella at 12:01 a.m.

 

[Lisa558]

In which town are you talking about?? Cause I know a bunch of towns reliant on very few businesses for that stuff

A city, granted. But if people choose to live in towns with limited choices for purchases, that’s their decision. It’s why I’ve always lived within 45 minutes of a major city.

 

[Slade3200]

The only way a business that is inefficient or unethical survives the market (generally speaking) is if the govenment props it up...which it does.

There are times it is necessary (I already cited anti-trust), but Harris is talking groceries where margins are razor thin and they count on huge turnover of goods to make their money. How stupid would it be to slow that down by trying for just a little more margin.....you'd go under.

Again, without specifics this whole thing is nothing. Should could be talking about reinforcing the laws currently in place or she could be talking about a socialist agenda. But we don’t have specifics nor do I think any will be presented because it is political populist hot air.

 

[Obiwan]

Again, it’s hot air. She doesn’t have the ability to fix prices. It’s like Trump building a wall and Mexico paying for it. Not something in his control. Or repealing and replacing Obamacare. Hot air

So you're saying Harris is a liar. If that's the case, why should we believe ANYTHING she says?

 

[Slade3200]

She said she'd stop gouging.

Not that she has the brain cells to tell you what that is.

Nobody can. What is the defintion ?

Government control of prices was tried by Nixon and it bit him in the ass big time.

Kudos for keeping the facts straight

 

[Slade3200]

The wall was the one thing he said that didn’t come true, but he did help people with the Obamacare catastrophe by not forcing people to buy it. In most ways, he made good on his promises - much more so than any president I can remember.

In the meantime, Kamala is offering meaningless promises that won’t go anywhere - from free down payments of $25k to punishing grocery stores by fixing their prices. Name one positive thing she is promising that makes sense, and that America can afford, and that will not hurt Americans.

You don’t remember the repeal and replace promise? Thank god for McCain seeing that there was never a replace. That thumb going up could have cost thousands their insurance and health coverage

 

[HikerGuy83]

Wouldn’t it be great if the teleprompter failed, and she’d be left to her own devices?

It would be like Cinderella at 12:01 a.m.

I'd pay a lot of money to watch that one.

 

[Slade3200]

So your defense to Kamala’s stupid, harmful, Soviet-style promises is “she doesn’t mean it”?

It’s not an excuse is an account of what’s happening. Political hot air… just like the shit Trump does on a daily basis. I’m not excusing it. I’m explaining that’s what it is

 

[HikerGuy83]

You don’t remember the repeal and replace promise? Thank god for McCain seeing that there was never a replace. That thumb going up could have cost thousands their insurance and health coverage

Health care isn't a simple conversation.

No, I don't thank God for anything about John McCain except that he's dead.

Your statement is a gross oversimplification.

 

[Slade3200]

Health care isn't a simple conversation.

No, I don't thank God for anything about John McCain except that he's dead.

Your statement is a gross oversimplification.

Wow, that’s a truly horrible statement to make about another person

 

[HikerGuy83]

Let's keep one things straight.

Biden Harris own the inflation. No, I don't believe they are major causes, but they sure wanted to claim credit for the economy with the whole "bidenomics" BS.

So, I am more than willing to hang this around their neck in return.

I don't like being insulted.

They own it.

And now she want's to "fix" her own mess by creating an even bigger mess.

And the morons in this country who believe her are the ones often hurting the most.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Wow, that’s a truly horrible statement to make about another person

No. That's my statement about how I feel. Step away from the judgement table. It never goes well for you.

 

[Slade3200]

No. That's my statement about how I feel. Step away from the judgement table. It never goes well for you.

Feel glad that somebody is dead is a dark and ugly thing… sorry but that's my statement about how I feel about it

 

[HikerGuy83]

Feel glad that somebody is dead is a dark and ugly thing… sorry but that's my statement about how I feel about it

And I won't comment on that. I respect your right to have your feelings.

 

[Lisa558]

It’s not an excuse is an account of what’s happening. Political hot air… just like the shit Trump does on a daily basis. I’m not excusing it. I’m explaining that’s what it is

So the choice is between Trump, who is putting forth good policies with the hope he will be able to push through at least some of them….

…or Harris, who is putting forth ridiculous, harmful policies with the hope that she fails on all of them?