Vivek Ramaswamy goes after former Ambassador Haley, minimizing the importance of her two years of experience at the UN and questioning her judgment and ethics.
“What was more notable is the $8 million that she made after that time in the UN as a family military contracting business in the board of Boeing and otherwise. I do not think that it is right when people profit from their time in public service.”
Republican Presidential hopeful, Vivek Ramaswamy sat down for a lively interview at the Northwoods Brewing Company in Northwood, NH with New Hampshire Today’s Chris Ryan; Christina Fitzpatrick from AARP NH; and Nate Shrader, a Political Science Professor at New England College.
Vivek Ramaswamy is a 38-year-old businessman who is new to politics. He has an estimated net worth over $900 million and is the author of several books with a B.A. in Biology from Harvard and a law degree from Yale. He has written and spoken out against woke culture, Big Tech censorship, and critical race theory.
The interview began with Ramaswamy explaining why he felt that the problems which America faces at this juncture call for a political outsider like him from the millennial age group. He believes that despite being a wealthy CEO of various asset management firms, he can relate to middle class voters due to his upbringing in a stable first generation, immigrant family.
As the prospect of war in the Middle East is looming, Vivek Ramaswamy assesses President Biden’s handling of the crisis, critiques the courses of action suggested by other Republican presidential candidates, and offers his own, very different perspective.
Ramaswamy applauds President Biden and his Republican rivals for making statements supporting an important ally like Israel, but he feels that they all need to consider what exactly are Israel’s goals in Gaza and whether they are achievable.
He calls for an open discussion of the situation and the prospect of a broader war in the region. Ramaswamy views Nikki Haley’s call for Israel to “finish” Hamas as being a very simplistic suggestion by someone who claims to have so much foreign policy expertise.
“Nobody has defined who the successor to Hamas would be. Is it Hamas 2.0? Is it the Palestinian Authority? Is it Israel itself? There is no clear succession plan or exit strategy.”
Vivek Ramaswamy then went after former Ambassador Haley by minimizing the importance of her two years of experience at the UN and questioning her judgment and ethics.
With Social Security becoming insolvent in about ten years, Vivek Ramaswamy, who made much of his fortune as a hedge fund manager, recommends that there should be no cuts in benefits, eliminate some of impractical loopholes, revive our economy by reopening our energy sector, build up the Social Security surplus, and invest the surplus funds in a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds.
Ramaswamy would also favor revamping the healthcare system by applying market forces and choices so individuals could have plans which provide more homecare services.
Two topics which might alienate younger voters from Vivek Ramaswamy’s candidacy are his calling climate change a hoax and his insistence that the voting age should be raised to 25 unless younger voter is serving in the military, working as a first responder, or has passed a citizenship test.
In his description of what his legacy as a two term president would be, Vivek Ramaswamy said that he would limit the power of the bureaucracy, thereby unleashing the potential of the American economy; stay out of never ending foreign wars; close and protect our borders; and most importantly, restore pride in being a citizen of the United States.