would vote race, and that white men would side with a male candidate of ANY color over a female candidate. I said that white women would not be enough to get Hillary the presidency. Additionally, I opined, and he agreed with me on this point, that American wiould respond to an "orator." It's McDonald's politics: quick, easy and empty. However, he vehemently
I agree JT - that's the way that I see it swinging. Most appear to want a man, any man in office, rather than a woman - regardless of her experience or knowledge from what I have seen.
As for the Huckabee fair tax issue - if any one single official were interested in really solving the deficit that the Republicans have created in this country, they need only start with some basic changes. Tax the top, who are paying somewhere around 15% interest on their investment income, at the same rate as any other earner and you immediately bring in billions of dollars in revenue. Statisticians have already shown that by removing the limits on social security payments to the government - instead of stopping those payments once you hit $200,000 and instead keep paying - there would be enough money and more in the fund for years to come. Next - make both social security and medicare accountable to independent oversight and end any government ability to withdraw those funds unless there is a referendum on the matter. Then - put tarrifs back on your imported goods. Corporations that move jobs elsewhere for cheap labour and then sell those goods back in the USA, should be forced to pay high tarrifs to get the product back in. If the USA consumer base is still good enough, it forces those companies to rethink their strategy of working overseas if they have to pay 30% to get the stuff back in the USA to sell - more cost effective to set up shop inside the country. Next - as Michigan itself has made public - the cost of health care is shutting down competition. Canada is right over the border and it is cheaper to make cars there because they have provincial paid health care and a good wage that is still less than the same wage and employer paid benefits in the USA. Remove the billions of subsidies that are paid to the oil companies, the mega farmers and every other gazillion dollar profit company and instead, spread those resources to the smaller farms, the organics, the green technology - in other words small business which then might be able to stimulate the economy and provide jobs.
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