Thursday, February 11, 2016

PBS News Hour Debate

Both made compelling statements. I believe them both. 

Senator Sanders plans increase the size of the federal government by 45 percent.


Is Senator Sander's plans possible? I think the plans belong to the people as much as Senator Sanders. 


29 million people are without health care insurance today.



Decreasing the number of uninsured (click here) is a key goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which provides Medicaid coverage to many low-income individuals in states that expand and Marketplace subsidies for individuals below 400% poverty. The ACA’s major coverage provisions went into effect in January 2014 and led to significant coverage gains. The number of uninsured nonelderly Americans in 2014 was 32 million, a decrease of nearly 9 million since 2013. This fact sheet describes trends in coverage leading up to and after the ACA expansions, examines the characteristics of the uninsured population, and summarizes the access and financial implications of not having coverage....
I think there has to be a compromise to bring about a guaranteed insured population. There is a middle ground by adding a Public Option to the existing ACA. 

Hillary and the average American family and how the costs would change for them. She wants the plans of each candidate vetted to bring about a reality for the American people.

Hillary states her plan will cost for health care $100 billion per year and paid for.

Bernie wants to bring about the truth about jobs in the USA and the gaps that exist as never before regarding the unemployed. He sees the removal of advantageous tax loops holes such as offshoring. He wants a Wall Street speculation tax to return the favor to the country of bailing Wall Street out.

Hillary's Debt free tuition is mentioned but not vetted. She makes the point Senator Sander's plans for free tuition relies on Governors and $23 million in the state treasury on the first day of the legislation.

Senator Sanders wants free tuition for students in State Colleges. I agree. Public colleges were built on the backs of Americans. Those employed in the public system are due to the investment Americans made in building and staffing their state universities. Where do colleges find the nerve to charge ridiculous tuition to the children of the people that paid to build and staff the university. It is nonsense. 

Secretary of State Albright has a rather exceptional place in USA history. She has a very strong personality. She is known to be decisive. She stated, "There is a special place in hell for women that don't support women." 

Fine. 

I am happy she is among Americans currently celebrating the real reason to bring a woman to the White House. It is special for her and I am sure it is a special time for many women.

Secretary Clinton can't be held responsible for freedom of speech Secretary Albright has defended in her career.

Bernie Sanders wants the hipocrisy to stop regarding double standards for women in their health care and family choices. He also speaks to the FACT there is a broken criminal justice system. He wants fundamental police reform. 

Hillary Clinton states she completely agrees with Bernie Sanders and points to real statistics. She believes there is still racism in the USA that has real impact on the minority communities. She wants a full effort to end all the negatives in the African American community.

Bernie Sanders specifically states he wants the police demilitarized. He is concerned about the education of minorities to keep them out of the vicious cycle of recidivism. 

Are there no Democrats that are police officers that can bring about a clear understanding of where this has all gone wrong.

Good models exists according to Hillary Clinton. Okay. Why aren't they implemented already? Is the Republican majority that indifferent to the lives of our minorities struggling in ways Caucasian communities are not? Maybe they are simply because they are politicizing the issue of unarmed African American deaths at the hand of police officers, which happens far more often than any other USA ethnic group. 

It is a real problem. It is not at all a political issue. It definitely starts with impoverishment.

Published by Allison Wignal...But getting into, (click here) paying for, and graduating from college is no easy task, and it’s only made more difficult for those students with low-income backgrounds. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, only 52% of 2011 high school graduates from low-income families enrolled in college immediately after high school, a figure 30 percentage points lower than their high-income peers. Nearly two-thirds of low-income students attend community colleges and for-profit institutions, which often have low graduation rates....

There is impoverishment of some Caucasian communities as well. Some of this is due to a political standard laced with religion that brings people to surrender rather than demanding better services from their government. My favorite example is Louisiana. It has the most wealthy industry in the USA, the petroleum industry; yet, Americans that service the petroleum industry are making poverty wages to their family. The reason the petroleum gets away with this is because the Louisiana government caters to their political cronies at the cost of the quality of life of their citizens. The reason the people are thankful for the pittance they receive is because there are no alternatives which is another failure of the "Christian identified Republican" government. Louisiana is just the beginning. It also has among the highest federal subsidies to pad their state treasuries rather than having well paying jobs for their people, with benefits and a significantly better tax base. The federal subsidies for these impoverished states have gone on far too long. What is their excuse already for allowing the USA face such problems while their industries make filthy abundant profits.

Bernie Sanders wants to stand up to the Trumps of the world and want to provide a path to citizenship. 

Hillary Clinton wants the 2007 bill invoked for immigrants.

Continued in next entry.

Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) takes the floor for one minute to argue in favor of S.1639, the Immigration bill.