David Marcus visits San Francisco, where Vice President Kamala Harris served as district attorney before becoming a U.S. senator. He found that the middle class has been all but squeezed out, leaving mostly super poor and super rich denizens of a once-great city.
Last week, Vice President Kamala Harris made the pitch that her economic policies will benefit the middle class more than Donald Trump’s. But in San Francisco, where she has been a power player for decades as a district attorney, state attorney general and finally as a senator, it is the middle class itself most hurt by the city’s crippling decline at the hands of Democrats.
Another woman told me the secret was to work in the public sector. 'The government unions run the city, they get whatever they want, it makes working in the private sector very difficult,' she said.
One hotel employee I spoke with who didn’t want to use his name, told me, 'You can make a good living, it isn’t that hard.' But in fairness, he was an immigrant from a small, poor town in Mexico, so his definition of 'good living' doesn’t exactly match the average Americans’. The sheer number of tourists speaks to the storied nature of San Francisco, not just in America, but around the world.
In Chicago this week, Harris will claim that she and the Democrats can create an 'opportunity economy' for the middle class. Well, her track record here in the city by the bay suggests that she might be good for venture capitalists and government workers, but at a crushing expense to most mid-level workers.
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