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On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:02 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

>
>
>On Sun, 18 Aug 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>
>> On 8/18/2024 11:19 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>>> On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 13:42:46 -0500, Lynn McGuire
>>> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Incredibly sad.  And the Democrat candidate here in the USA is =
talking
>>>> freezing food prices and making grocery stores report any changes in
>>>> their prices, causing huge paperwork and never ending bureaucracies.
>>>=20
>>> The presumed Democratic candidate for President (she won't be the
>>> candidate until the convention chooses her) appears to be talking
>>> about artificially raising prices and keeping them raised far longer
>>> than the economic situation requires. And I don't want to see a quote
>>> from 5 years ago on the topic; people's ideas change over time.
>>>=20
>>> I suspect you have happened on a Putin/Trump Talking Point and have
>>> swallowed it whole. Surely by now you realize that these things are
>>> useful only as projections onto the Dems of what Trump (and so the
>>> Republicans, as long as they do not disavow him and all his works and
>>> all his ways) would like to do. Which is fine in itself -- it's =
always
>>> helpful to know what the other guys are planning.
>>
>> Please do not lie about me.  This Aug 16, 2024 speech by Kamala Harris=
 on=20
>> Price Fixing is on CNN:
>> =
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/16/business/harris-price-gouging-ban-inflatio=
n/index.html
>>
>> "New York CNN  =97 Food prices have surged by more than 20% under the=20
>> Biden-Harris administration, leaving many voters eager to stretch =
their=20
>> dollars further at the grocery store."
>>
>> "On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris said she has a solution: a =
federal=20
>> ban on price gouging across the food industry."
>>
>> Lynn
>>
>
>Sorry Paul, it's there black on white. Let me give you an example of =
what=20
>can happen when the government fixes prices. When I was young, the=20
>socialist state of sweden I was living in had one phone company. During =
me=20
>BBS intense youth that could lead to phone bills in the 100s of dollars.=
=20
>The socialists were proud of their government monopoly. Oh, and note =
that=20
>in the beginning only the governmetn approved phone was allowed, so no=20
>choice for you.

Yes, indeed:

-- excerpts from article begin
=93My plan will include new penalties for opportunistic companies that
exploit crises and break the rules,=94 Harris said at a campaign event.

To his point, a campaign fact sheet said that Harris also plans to
make more resources available for =93the federal government to identify
and take on price-fixing and other anti-competitive practices in the
food and grocery industries.=94
-- excerpts from article end

Not "freezing food prices and making grocery stores report any changes
in their prices", as claimed above.

So, yes, there it is in black and white -- this article does /not/
support the Trump/Putin talking point that she will be "freezing food
prices and making grocery stores report any changes in their prices".

There is a clear difference between Putin/Trump talking points and
reality. I suggest you consider checking on the facts. Or at least
reading the articles you claim support the position you are defending
to ensure that they do, in fact, do so.=20

All she is promising to do is /actually enforce the laws/. I can
remember when the Republican Party was the Party of Law and Order.

But no more.

(If this post actually produces a confirming article from a credible
news source, then this post will have served a purpose.)
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"