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The failed policies of the Biden-Harris administration gave America 40-year-high inflation, labor unrest, and now potentially the costliest strike in American history. By directing its 45,000 members to walk off the job, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union is crippling eastern seaboard ports and costing $5 billion per day. In October 2021, I warned that the tax-and-spend agenda of the Biden-Harris administration would set an inflationary fire and torch Americans’ finances, resulting in labor unrest. By the fall of 2023, we had the largest auto strike in history as the United Auto Workers (UAW) demanded higher wages to counter their losses from inflation. While the UAW strike was disruptive to the auto industry, it didn’t cause severe economic harm or noticeably impact the consumer. The ILA walk-off is an order of magnitude worse, with the potential for severe disruptions to the economy if it lasts more than just a few days. BALTIMORE RESTAURANT OWNER SAYS PORT STRIKE IS ALREADY IMPACTING BUSINESS: ‘IT REALLY HURTS’The 36 ports on the Gulf and East coasts handle 55% of all U.S. container traffic and large volumes of exports, including about half of U.S. pork and almost three-quarters of U.S. poultry. About half of all imported fruits and vegetables come through these ports as well. In pharmaceuticals, nine out of 10 imports and seven out of 10 exports are being disrupted. In short, America’s international trade has been severely hamstrung, with consumers and businesses alike about to get hit hard if this labor dispute isn’t resolved quickly. The primary reason for this and other labor unrest over the last three years has been the stratospheric rise in the cost of living, which stems directly from mismanagement by the Biden-Harris administration. Biden and Harris pushed for runaway federal deficits, fueled with newly created money from the Federal Reserve, destroyed one-fifth of the dollar’s value in less than four years. It also caused violent fluctuations in interest rates for everything from mortgages to credit cards. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONThe result has been a cost-of-living crisis with homeownership affordability plunging to some of the lowest levels on record, while families pay over $300 billion annually just in interest on their outstanding credit card balances. Despite the average American’s weekly paycheck being larger than ever before, it buys less than it did just four years ago. But the plunge in the dollar’s purchasing power has hit businesses every bit as hard as consumers, and the Biden-Harris administration’s own data proves it. Prices paid by firms and by customers have both increased 20% since January 2021, meaning businesses have merely passed on their cost increases to consumers. Inflation has massively increased both the cost of living and the cost of doing business, leaving no winners but government. So, while workers are demanding higher wages to combat today’s sky-high cost of living, management is desperate to control increases in the cost of doing business — and that includes labor costs. With such tight margins, any pay increases to workers will result in higher prices for customers. But that didn’t stop the Biden-Harris administration from weighing in and siding with the strikers, citing growth in corporate profits as somehow indicative of management’s misbehavior. Corporate profits have increased in the same sense that families’ paychecks have increased, but both buy less, on average, than they did four years ago because of the hidden tax of inflation. Of all the politicians in Washington, D.C., Vice President Kamala Harris owns a disproportionate amount of the blame for inflation over the last four years. Not only was she the biggest cheerleader of the president’s big-government agenda, but she also cast the tie-breaking vote on trillions of dollars in inflationary federal deficit spending. What’s particularly worrisome is that Harris hasn’t learned from her mistakes. She’s doubling down instead, proposing more of the same economic malfeasance that got America into this mess. If public policy continues down the path of the last three-and-a-half years, it will mean more inflation, more labor unrest, and evermore disruptive strikes. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM E.J. ANTONI 



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Radio show host Charlamagne Tha God on Monday applauded GOP presidential nominee former President Trump’s political ad that highlighted Vice President Kamala Harris’ support for taxpayer-funded surgeries for trans prisoners and illegal immigrants.”That ad [Trump] was running during the football games this weekend claiming the vice president supports funding gender transition surgeries for all prison inmates and migrants in the U.S.” Charlamagne Tha God said on Monday during the radio show he co-hosts called “The Breakfast Club.” “That was nuts,” he added.YOUNG SWING STATE VOTERS DELIVER ADVICE FOR KAMALA HARRIS The Trump campaign aired an advertisement over the weekend attacking Harris’ past support for government-funded transgender surgeries for prison inmates and migrants held in detention facilities. The narrator in the campaign ad began by saying, “Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners.” “Surgery for prisoners. Every transgender inmate in the prison system will have access,” Harris said in the ad. The ad shows Harris making those comments during an interview with the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE).The New York Post reported her comments during the NCTE interview were made during the 2020 election cycle as the vice president was doubling down on her position on supporting transgender prisoners.”It’s hard to believe, but it’s true. Even the liberal media was shocked Kamala supports tax-payer funded sex changes for prisoners and illegal aliens,” the narrator in the ad said.”Kamala’s for they/them. President Trump is for you,” the narrator in the ad said.The ad concluded with a CNBC headline reading, “Trump: Lower taxes, bigger paychecks for workers.”Reacting to the Trump campaign’s attack ad, Charlamagne Tha God said that “that ad was impactful” and “effective.”HARRIS FINALLY ADDS POLICY PAGE TO CAMPAIGN WEBSITE, DEVOTES SEVERAL SECTIONS TO TRUMP “I don’t know if it was the backdrop of football, but when you hear the narrator say Kamala supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners. That one line …” he said. “I was like, ‘Hell no. I don’t want my taxpayer dollars going to that.'”He suggested Harris counter with her own ads during football games.The vice president’s position was recently resurfaced by CNN, which reported on the presidential candidates’ responses in a questionnaire. When asked by the ACLU if “as President will you use your executive authority to ensure that transgender and nonbinary people who rely on the state for medical care — including those in prison and immigration detention — will have access to comprehensive treatment associated with gender transition, including all necessary surgical care?,” Harris responded in the affirmative. “I support policies ensuring that federal prisoners and detainees are able to obtain medically necessary care for gender transition, including surgical care, while incarcerated or detained. Transition treatment is a medical necessity, and I will direct all federal agencies responsible for providing essential medical care to deliver transition treatment,” she wrote in the questionnaire. The Harris campaign thas said in the past the ACLU questionnaire is “not what she is proposing or running on.”Many of Harris’ past positions have been put in the spotlight since she ascended to the top of the ticket after President Biden withdrew from the presidential race.



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An impromptu visit from Captain Jack Sparrow was a surprise treasure for some young cancer patients.Actor Johnny Depp, who was in Spain for the San Sebastian Film Festival, dressed as the famous character from the popular “Pirates of the Caribbean” film series and dropped into the Osakidetza Donostia University Hospital.Depp visited the pediatric and oncology wards, where he interacted with the delighted children and their families.CHILDREN ONCE HELD HOSTAGE STILL WORKING THROUGH TRAUMA: ‘ARE THEY COMING FOR US AGAIN?’A spokesperson from the hospital described the actor’s visit as “exciting, endearing and unforgettable.””Both the children admitted to the hospital and their families and professionals who were working at that time welcomed him with great enthusiasm and affection,” the spokesperson said. “In a situation of illness, anyone, but especially children, greatly appreciates a distraction of this magnitude. It was a breath of fresh air, a magical moment in which they forgot about their illness and were transported to the magical world of pirates.”The entire hospital team, the admitted children and their families are all “enormously grateful” for Depp’s visit, the spokesperson said. “It has been a pleasure and an honor to have Jack Sparrow with us, a great pirate.”Harpreet Pall, MD, chair of pediatrics at K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital at Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center, confirmed that a celebrity role model visiting a children’s hospital can have a “meaningful impact” on the patients’ emotional health.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR HEALTH NEWSLETTER”Some of the psychological benefits include improved self-esteem and confidence, distraction from illness, improved optimism and a morale boost,” Pall told Fox News Digital. “A celebrity visit can create excitement and decrease some of the stress of being in the hospital.”The visit can also increase children’s engagement with their health care team, the doctor said, leading to better adherence to the treatment plan. For more Health articles, visit www.foxnews.com/healthPall added, “In addition, having a positive outlook and social interaction promotes healing for hospitalized children.”



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Vice President Kamala Harris has gone 74 days as the presumptive, and now, official Democratic nominee for president without holding an official press conference. Trump held his third news conference since the beginning of August last month in California, taking the opportunity to roast his opponent’s home state and hold forth on a number of topics, including crime, immigration and inflation.BERNIE SANDERS SAYS HARRIS DROPPING FAR-LEFT POLICIES ‘IN ORDER TO WIN THE ELECTION’Harris has stepped up her interviews in recent weeks, including doing radio hits and a solo sit-down with a Philadelphia TV station. She also spoke to MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle and she made time to hang out with supporter Oprah Winfrey last month at a star-studded campaign event.But as for when she’ll actually do a formal press conference as a candidate, that day may never come, at least while she’s still a candidate.Conservative Radio Libre host Jorge Bonilla feels Harris should do a press conference but said it’s almost “irrelevant” because she continues to get a pass. HARRIS DODGES QUESTION ON LOWERING PRICES BY DESCRIBING ‘MIDDLE-CLASS’ ROOTS: NEIGHBORS ‘PROUD OF THEIR LAWN’”She is highly unlikely to do a press conference because the media have enabled and encouraged her ‘plexiglass basement’ strategy, wherein she preserves the illusion of being out there while remaining wholly inaccessible to the press and therefore unaccountable,” Bonilla told Fox News Digital.In her interview in Philadelphia, her answer citing her middle-class upbringing when asked about specifics of her economic policy drew sharp criticism.BARBARA WALTERS WOULD EXPECT KAMALA HARRIS TO DO INTERVIEWS, AUTHOR SAYS: ‘PART OF THE JOB OF BEING PRESIDENT'”You know, I grew up in a neighborhood of folks who were very proud of their lawn,” she said. “And I was raised to believe and to know that all people deserve dignity, and that we as Americans have a beautiful character. You know, we have ambitions and aspirations and dreams, but not everyone necessarily has access to the resources that can help them fuel those dreams and ambitions. “So when I talk about building an opportunity economy, it is very much with the mind of investing in the ambitions and aspirations and the incredible work ethic of the American people and creating opportunity for people, for example, to start a small business.”Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report. 



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Publish date : 2024-10-03 04:00:19

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Forty-seven tigers, three lions and a panther have died in zoos in south Vietnam due to the bird flu, state media said.According to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), the mammals died at the private My Quynh safari park in Long An province and the Vuon Xoai zoo in Dong Nai, near Ho Chi Minh City.According to test results from the National Centre for Animal Health Diagnosis, the animals died “because of H5N1 type A virus,” VNA said.The report noted that no zoo staff members were in close contact with the animals that contracted the disease.FIRST CASE OF HUMAN BIRD FLU DIAGNOSED WITHOUT EXPOSURE TO INFECTED ANIMALS, CDC SAYSThe World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have said that there has been an increase in outbreaks among mammals caused by influenza viruses, including avian influenza A (H5).In the U.S., a patient in Missouri was diagnosed with bird flu in September.The patient, who had underlying medical conditions, was successfully treated with antiviral medications at the hospital and has since been discharged, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS).This marks the 14th person (in three states) to contract bird flu in the U.S. this year — and the first infection to occur without any reported exposure to sick or infected animals, the CDC alert stated.The prior 13 cases came after exposure to dairy cows or poultry.Fox News’ Melissa Rudy contributed to this report.



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