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She did a really good job.
In reply, then, no, vice presidents have no real authority. The job isn't even described in the constitution. The constitution says only:
The Constitution as ratified on June 21, 1788 included the committee’s plans for the vice president. Article II, Section 1 spelled out that “in Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President.” Congress could also declare by law when a vice president had a disability.
Article I, Section 3 established the vice president’s role in Congress: “The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.”
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/what-is-the-constitutional-role-of-the-vice-president
I watched this 100 times 😂😂😂🔥🔥
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) August 22, 2024
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Do you think that your message here would represent the majority of Americans in your beliefs?
Have a good wkend
sorry Authority
What caused inflation to spike after 2020?
Summary written by: Richard Hernandez
The United States was experiencing a period of low inflation before 2020. Then, in early 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) created various market problems, causing prices for goods and services to rise. In “Understanding U.S. inflation during the COVID era” (National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 30613, October 2022), Laurence M. Ball, Daniel Leigh, and Prachi Mishra conduct indepth research to address the questions
I already post what caused it.
Has no what???
not at all I wonder why she didn't do it already.. and yes unless Dems win the house these things will never happen.
Now I'll here how the vice Pres has no aturity :+)
Covid and the MultiNational corporations likely had a lot to do with the increases...check it out on Google
First of all it wouldn't be run by Kamala...the House and Senate usually run things and besides...flip flop or not she wants to make everyday Americans happy and successful...is that a problem??
your saying gas wasn't 5.00 a gal? gorceries are thru the roof, 10 million people came acrosst the boarder,inflation was almost 13%?
And somehow you don't understand it's Trump's gigantic tax cut for the rich that kicked off the inflationary cycle.
I never said it was " just your opinion" I said it was a matter of opinion.
No, it is not "just my opinion". It's blindingly clear that he's an enormous embarrassment to hid family. They've been making that clear for years. He's a formerly-Democratic Paul Gosar.
Of course he's a narcissist. That's why he decided to run for the presidency. He could have hung out with Steve Bannon (UGH!!) and endorsed Trumpty from the outset, without wasting money running for an office he'll never hold.
You don't think he wants attention? If not, why admit he screwed the family's babysitter, and has sexually assaulted others? Why tell us about his brain worm? Why pull the bear cub stunt, and even make a public announcement about it?
He CRAVES attention.
I think if you really look at all the points you listed, you will see that someone is pulling your leg....in other words they're not true
I can't imagine a country run by Kamala she has did a 180 degrees in the last three months. total flip flop and the things she is promising she knows will never happen.
I didn't want Him to win and as far as Trump everything was better under his four yrs, lower inflation, secure boarder, gas affordble , gorceries affordable.
I'll say it again I don't much care for trump but times were better.
this is the guy you would support to run the country?...and even if not.... just imagine a country run by Trump...what would you want if he won??
Mind if I has why you say that?
He's whacked ...IMO....seriously, this is the guy you would support to run the country?...and even if not just imagine a country run by Trump...what would you want if he won??
all that is a matter of opinion
No, there's nothing new, because his siblings are correct. And he's a huge embarrassment to the family. A total narcissist. All he wants is attention.
His siblings have been calling him names since he decided to run nothing new there.
You may be right... Though it hasn't been for long. Maybe advertising costs during the convention week were higher than usual, and Balance of Nature decided not bother...
The Trump - RFK Jr. rally will start on FOX soon.
BTW, is it my imagination, but I haven't seen any Balance of Nature ads lately?
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Yes, he did. So sleazy. He just craves attention, and obviously doesn't care how he gets it.
His siblings commented.
Going beyond one's own belief system
Requires thought and interaction
Normalcy bias is difficult
To get through
It seems to be your ignorance on display. You are what you post
I see my copy and paste are upsetting some, The truth sure brings the ignorance out in some.
And they overstated jobs by over 500,000 when Trump left office. BFD
Now here’s a stat that you should be proud of: since the Cold War ended in 1989 under Dems 50 million jobs created and under Republicans 1 million. Now fuck off
Know How they do it?????????????
https://www.yahoo.com/news/official-report-stating-us-gained-194127069.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Bill Clinton and the wide gap in job gains by presidential party
gifted https://wapo.st/4dTJw5T
Speaking at the Democratic convention, Bill Clinton suggested that the partisan “score” on job creation since the Cold War was 50 million to 1 million. It is.
Column by Philip Bump
August 22, 2024 at 9:01 a.m. EDT
Former president Bill Clinton, speaking during the third night of the Democratic convention on Wednesday, presented a bit of data meant to promote his party — and, indirectly, his period in office.
“You’re going to have a hard time believing this, but so help me, I triple-checked it,” Clinton began. “Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, America has created about 51 million new jobs. I swear I checked this three times. Even I couldn’t believe it. What’s the score? Democrats 50, Republicans one.”
That is: 50 million jobs added under Democratic presidents and 1 million under Republicans.
“One,” Clinton continued. After referring to vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz’s past job as a high school football coach, Clinton spiked the ball. “But even the most limited of us in what we know about football, or any other sport, knows that if you’ve got 50 and the other side’s got one, you’re ahead.”
This is one measure, obviously selected for effect. But Clinton’s not wrong.
There have been six presidents since 1989, three from each party. Under the three Democrats — Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden — there was a cumulative increase of 50 million more people working between the starts of their terms and the ends. Under the three Republicans — George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Donald Trump — the cumulative total was, in fact, only 1 million. (That’s starting at the beginning of the elder Bush’s term, not the fall of the Berlin Wall a few months later that marked the start of the Cold War’s demise.)
There is an avalanche of caveats that apply here, certainly. One is that “increase in people working” is not fully equivalent to “jobs created,” nor is it necessarily a measure of the policies or administration of the presidents.
It’s also the case that both George W. Bush and Trump saw calamities during their presidencies that significantly reduced employment: the recession under Bush and the coronavirus pandemic under Trump. But you can also see how this brings us back to the uncertainties just mentioned. Could the job loss during those events have been more limited under different presidents?
If we extend the point backward a bit further, to the end of World War II, the difference is still striking. Each party has had seven presidents since that time, with 88 million jobs added under Democrats and 32 million under Republicans.
Take out the post-Cold War period and you see that the distinction is more modest: 38 million under Democrats to 31 under Republicans. There is, however, still a distinction.
Of course, these presidents also had different durations in office. John F. Kennedy wasn’t in office as long as his predecessor, Dwight D. Eisenhower. So it would make sense if the country added fewer jobs during his administration. (As it turns out, it didn’t, but you get the point.)
If we adjust employment increases by months in office, we still see a difference — particularly since George H.W. Bush in 1989.
Again, more caveats can be sprinkled over all of this. Job growth under Biden was increased to some extent because employers were getting back up to speed after layoffs at the outset of the pandemic, for example.
So what happens if we take just the middle two years of Trump’s and Biden’s terms and compare them? That eliminates the covid effects for Trump and the boost at the outset for Biden. It also gives a year during which their policies could be expected to have had an effect.
In 2018 and 2019, under Trump, the country added 4.3 million jobs. In 2022 and 2023, under Biden, it added 7.5 million jobs.
You don’t have to be a sports whiz to see that seven puts you ahead of four, either.
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LOL The Donald, seeing a lazy way out, took the bait.
Sounds like a plan🍷🍺
Yes, along with Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Pete Buttigieg, among others...
Should be good tonight Walz gets to show his stuff
Of course! It was fun!
Did anyone watch the DNC last night ?
I found it very hopeful...uplifting....nice to feel that again
remember when Donald Trump caught heck for children in cages? (Obama cages)
https://www.newsweek.com/under-joe-biden-undocumented-children-missing-1812728
How Food Companies’ Massive Profits Are Making Your Groceries More Expensive
https://time.com/6269366/food-company-profits-make-groceries-expensive/
April 6, 2023 4:24 PM EDT
It’s been more than a year since the U.S. launched its battle against high inflation. Yet, nearly every grocery item still costs more than it did in the past.
A bag of potato chips that could have been purchased for $5.36 last year will cost you $6.17 today. A dozen eggs that used to cost $2.01 now sets you back $4.21. A pound of butter went from $3.77 to $4.87.
Across the country, the high grocery prices have crunched budgets for essential food items. But at the same time, some of the largest food corporations are raking in profits. Experts say those profits are helping to make your groceries even more expensive.
“Follow the money, and the story is clear,” Robert Reich, the former US. Labor Secretary, tweeted last week. “Food corporations are using inflation as cover to jack up prices.”
READ MORE: Here’s Why So Many Grocery Store Staples Are So Expensive Right Now
On Tuesday, Conagra Brands—one of the largest consumer packaged goods companies in the U.S.—announced that it had posted a nearly 60% year-over-year profit increase between December 2022 and February 2023. The Chicago-based company, which makes a long list of grocery staples including Chef Boyardee, Hunt’s, Slim Jim, Reddi-wip, and Marie Callender’s frozen meals, reported a net income of $342 million, up from $219 million in the same quarter a year prior.
Conagra attributed the rise in quarterly profits to inflationary price increases, despite facing more impactful supply chain disruptions than anticipated. Sean Connolly, Conagra chief executive, said on the earnings call with shareholders that the company’s sales growth was “primarily driven by inflation justified price increases” and a willingness by consumers to pay the higher prices. Conagra did not respond to a request for comment.
Connolly added that “while these inflation cycles are painful for manufacturers to go through to a degree, sometimes they’re actually quite good for you because they become a catalyst for getting your pricing right.”
Conagra Brands, which makes Slim Jim, Reddi-wip, and Marie Callender's frozen meals, is only the latest food company to post big profitsLon Tweeten–TIME
Conagra isn’t the only food company making profits off of inflation-driven price increases. At Kraft-Heinz, the multinational food company that makes Oscar Mayer, Jell-O, and Kool Aid, profits for the quarter ending at the end of 2022 were up nearly 450%, compared to the prior year, at $887 million. Tyson Foods, the largest meat company in the U.S., more than doubled its profits between the first quarters of 2021 and 2022. And General Mills, which owns Kix, Trix, and Chex among other recognizable cereal labels, saw its fourth quarter profits last year rise 97% compared to the previous quarter. General Mills has raised prices five times since 2021 and indicated last month that another price hike could be coming soon. (Profits fell for both Tyson and General Mills in the most recent quarter, however.)
Over the last year, the price of food eaten at home has soared more than 10%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with some items spiking even higher. Cereals and bakery goods are up 14.6% from a year ago, closely followed by dairy and nonalcoholic beverages, which have both risen 12.3%. The other major grocery store food groups—meats and fresh produce—are up 6.8% and 5.4%, respectively. Prices increases have slowed in recent months, but show no signs of going back to pre-pandemic levels.
The trend shows that the packaged food industry is benefitting from passing the price increases along to American consumers. And as more food companies are reaping the rewards of higher profit, it could result in your grocery prices staying at these inflation-driven levels for longer, says Chris Becker, a senior economist at Groundwork Collaborative, which promotes left-leaning economic policies.
READ MORE: U.S. Food Prices Are Up. Are the Food Corporations to Blame for Taking Advantage?’
“When shareholders see that other corporations are getting away with high pricing, they start wanting to get in on it,” he says. “So other corporations then raise prices to deliver profit margins.”
In other industries, like electronics and home furnishing, consumers are likely to cut back on spending if prices are too high. But that hasn’t been as big a concern among food industry executives, Becker says, since people will always need to spend on groceries in order to live.
“Food companies are taking advantage of this very precarious moment,” says Irit Tamir, Director of Oxfam America’s private sector department, which seeks to fight inequality to end poverty and injustice. “They are hiding behind a very good story of the pandemic, inflation, and the Ukraine war to say that they need to raise prices, but they are actually just creating a smash and grab for profit, exploiting and exacerbating inflation.”
And it’s not just packaged food manufacturers that are experiencing a recent profit boom thanks to rising prices, says Joe Maxwell, the president of Farm Action, a nonprofit that campaigns against corporate influence in the farm industry. Some food producers and suppliers are also reaping the same rewards.
Cal-Maine Foods, the largest egg producer in the U.S., reported that its revenue doubled and profit surged 718% last quarter because of higher egg prices. The company, which controls about 20% of the U.S. egg market, said its average selling price for a dozen eggs in the quarter ending Feb. 25 was $3.30, more than double the average of $1.61 a year earlier.
READ MORE: Your Egg Prices Could Be So High Because of Price Gouging, Farm Group Says
The company has pointed to decreased egg supply nationwide due to avian flu as the reason for higher prices and record sales. The avian flu, which is tearing through poultry farms across the U.S., wiped out some 58 million birds in the last year. But Farm Action believes that there’s another culprit: price gouging. In a January letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the organization alleged that Cal-Maine Foods is engaging in “a collusive scheme among industry leaders to turn inflationary conditions and an avian flu outbreak into an opportunity to extract egregious profits.”
Maxwell, who was the last Democratic Lt. Governor of Missouri, says that the food and agriculture industries have become so concentrated into a few large companies that there’s no longer an incentive to gain market share by competing on price. “The market dynamics do not work,” he says. “Today a primary cause of food inflation in this country is the market concentration that allows for price gouging.”
RELATED: 15 Expert Tips on How to Save Money on Grocery Shopping
Democratic lawmakers Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Katie Porter called out Cal-Maine and other major egg producers for more transparency into their profitability. “American families working to put food on the table deserve to know whether the increased prices they are paying for eggs represent a legitimate response to reduced supply or out-of-control corporate greed,” they wrote in a letter in February.
“Companies have admitted that they are raising prices not because of costs, but because they can,” Tamir says. “They are essentially hiding behind a lot of these excuses as a way to gouge consumers.”
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You know that Trump is going straight down the stool, don't you.
Yeah. Dubya should have put Luttig on the Supreme Court in place of Roberts or Alito.
In an official opinion issued today, Georgia attorney general Chris Carr says the State Election Board is not empowered to direct his office to reinvestigate the 2020 presidential recount in Fulton County.
— Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) August 19, 2024
Read the opinion: https://t.co/C8ZgHALQtk
Thanks for your tireless, crucial work. What are we going to do about the elephant in the room?
— Jim Stewartson, Counterinsurgent 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙🎈 (@jimstewartson) August 19, 2024
If SCOTUS is on the bench after the election, what will prevent them from rubber-stamping decertifications?
We need to #LockTheDoors until next year.https://t.co/9fSKevrk6R
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