Monday, September 26, 2016

First Presidential Debate.

Income inequality:

Hillary Clinton: An economy that works for everyone. New jobs with rising income. Most of the new jobs will come from small business. Raise the minimum wage and equal pay for women.

Support for people trying to balance family and work. This is long overdue. Debt free college and quality childcare. The wealthy to pay their fair share. Good.

"Who will be able to make your life better?"

Donald Trump:

Jobs are outsourced. The Chinese are using the USA as their piggy bank. The biggest plants in the world are being built in China and Mexico. Ford is leaving, 1000 of jobs are leaving. 

Child care agrees with Hillary.

"We have to stop our companies from leaving the United States, ie: Carrier....Under my plan the taxes will be reduced and it will be a job creator."

Donald that is called "Trickle Down Economics" and it does not work.

Hillary Clinton: That is "Trumped Up Trickle Down."..."Invest in the middle class and the better we will grow."

Donald Trump: "My father gave me a small loan and I built it into billions of dollars....What China is doing to the USA is wrong....When we sell into Mexico there is tax and when Mexico sells to us there is no cost....Secretary Clinton and others should have been doing this for years....We owe 20 trillion dollars and can't do that anymore."

Lester Holt: How are you going to do that?

Donald Trump: Tax imports. The politicians never do that because of special interests. We have to stop the companies from leaving.

Hillary Clinton: 2008 was a perfect storm....13 trillion in family wealth was wiped out...Donald capitalized on the economic failure. His tax plan would blow up the debt by adding 12 trillion dollars....Her investments will bring about 20 million new jobs. 

Does Donald think the climate crisis is something dreamed up by the Chinese.

Donald Trump: The USA lost money investing for solar panels. We cannot do what Hillary Clinton wants without increasing the national debt. "We have to do a better job at keeping our jobs."

Michigan and Ohio and so many of their jobs are leaving.


The USA has the lowest unemployment rate in decades.

...Sixty thousand (click here) manufacturing jobs were added in the U.S. in 2014, versus 12,000 in 2003, either through so-called reshoring, in which American companies bring jobs back to the U.S., or foreign direct investment, in which foreign companies move production to the U.S., according to a study from the Reshoring Initiative. In contrast, as many as 50,000 jobs were “offshored” last year, a decline from about 150,000 in 2003....

The future growth of the USA lies in increased wages beginning with the minimum wage.

Donald Trump restores to Republican rhetoric; ie: regulation, increased taxes. The USA cannot afford to deregulate. The water is polluted, the air is polluted, the climate is out of control.