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| Dear Friend, |
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| Kamala Harris likes to boast about the success of Bidenomics and
the prosperity it has supposedly brought to our country. But in
criss-crossing America myself, I’m not seeing evidence of that
prosperity. |
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| Instead, I’m seeing an America I never thought I’d witness—an
America where giant disparities in wealth have left most Americans
living on the precipice of desperation. |
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| Today, the average income in this country is $5,000 less than the
basic cost of living, and 35% of Americans are not making enough to
pay for basic human needs like transportation, food, and housing. This
means they are forced to make impossible choices every day. |
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| American parents across the country are sitting in their living
rooms, listening to a baby cry in the next room, and wondering if that
baby is $30 sick, $200 sick, or $500 sick before they dare bring them
to a hospital. They’re choosing between medicine, food, gasoline, and
rent. |
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| To bridge the gap between their income and their needs, Americans
are increasingly relying on credit cards. We now have the greatest
credit card debt in American history—$300 billion more than just a few
years ago—with an average interest rate of around 22%. |
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| When the mafia charges those kinds of rates, they call it loan
sharking. When banks do it, they just call it interest.. |
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| If we’re doing so well, then why is it that today 57% of Americans
can’t put their hands on $1,000 in case of an emergency? For the first
time in our history, two-thirds of us believe that our children will
be worse off than we are today. |
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| For most Americans, the American Dream has turned into an American
nightmare. Whatever graphs, data, and statistics government officials
use to try to gaslight us into believing that everything is
hunky-dory, the reality is written across this country on the plywood
that boards up all the closed businesses—from Main Street to Union
Square in San Francisco—and it’s etched on the faces of mothers and
fathers who gather weekly at their kitchen table to figure out how in
the world they’re going to make ends meet. |
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| That kitchen table math is far more reliable than the sunny
economic projections we’re getting from our elected officials,
including those in the White House. |
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| Every American family knows in their bones that these
tales of a booming economy don’t add up. |
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| A Harris administration will continue to adopt policies that favor
Wall Street, tech billionaires, and military contractors over the
American middle class. These interests are strip-mining America of its
equity, wealth, salaries, and ultimately, our democracy. |
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your support, I will be able to yield significant influence in a new
administration that cares about YOUR economy—not the war economy, the
bank economy, the finance economy, or the Wall Street economy, and not
the theoretical economy on charts and graphs. |
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| This Labor Day, let’s commit to working together for the change we
need—a government that will finally solve the problems it created and
put the American people first. |
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| Sincerely, |
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| Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. |
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