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by Dentali » Sun Feb 02, 2020 10:17 am
by Azekopolaltion » Sun Feb 02, 2020 12:02 pm
by Dentali » Tue Feb 04, 2020 8:47 am
by Bruke » Tue Feb 04, 2020 1:43 pm
by Gordano and Lysandus » Tue Feb 04, 2020 2:42 pm
Bruke wrote:Hotel Fresno, Fresno, California
A farmer from the Kingsburg area stepped up to ask a question. “Governor, what are you going to do to get water to the Central Valley so that family farms like mine can continue to thrive?”
by Dentali » Tue Feb 04, 2020 5:31 pm
Gordano and Lysandus wrote:Bruke wrote:Hotel Fresno, Fresno, California
A farmer from the Kingsburg area stepped up to ask a question. “Governor, what are you going to do to get water to the Central Valley so that family farms like mine can continue to thrive?”
"Thank you for bringing your question to Fresno today, sir. The state of the water supply in the United States these days is shambolic, and especially in what is meant to be a wealthy state like California, you would expect and have a right to expect better on this front. I have a vision for a United States which is predominantly food sovereign, and in order to achieve that, the government needs to be on the side of farmers, especially family farmers like yourself. That's why government spending on agriculture needs to be reformed in order to support those who need it most. Irrigating the Central Valley is our job, and we should do it, so that you can do your job to conquer the hot, inhospitable soil and make it produce crops. Crops that feed American families. So I'd have surveyors come out here, figure out what the best solution is to provide water - new wells, a reservoir, an aqueduct - and then we'll make sure we'll damn well do it."
by Gordano and Lysandus » Tue Feb 04, 2020 10:51 pm
Dentali wrote:"This state is going to hell" a well dressed man with a graying beard and bald head says standing for the next question "Its dominated by a bunch of limousine liberals a vast majority, super majority, of the people that are here in this state that are Democrats and I do think that for many Republicans they just don’t feel comfortable in speaking up, any many Californians don't even realize the Republican party is an option. Which has not gotten better under President Wolf."
"How are you going to expand and grow the Republican party? Why should we believe you have the coattails that can flip Congressional seats, the governorship, and down ballot races from dog catcher on up?"
by Gordano and Lysandus » Tue Feb 04, 2020 11:42 pm
”Good evening everyone, it’s been an absolute pleasure to come to Nevada, and it’s a pleasure to meet all of you, everyday Nevadans who work so hard and contribute so much to making America great. We owe a lot to you.
Today, I’ve gotten to see a lot. Men maintaining 1930s technology to keep huge swathes of our country watered and powered. Herding huge quantities of cows to put beef on our tables. Miners who do one of the world’s hardest jobs and do it proudly, earning an honest wage and pleasing God by their labors. Nevada truly is the Silver State, not just because of the actual silver that still comes out of the ground, but because it sets a silver standard for us all to abide by. Hard work, honesty and home.
You don’t let yourselves be defined by the casinos in Reno and Vegas. You carve your own path, with the sweat off your backs and a determination that is concrete. It’s that essence of Americanism that makes your state so attractive to me, and I’m proud to have met so many of you today.
As I have said so far in all the states I have visited, I’m not here just to spout my views. I’m here to listen. Everything I hear on the trail gives me insight into the ordinary America that Washington has abandoned, and if they won’t come to you, then I will, and I’ll take it to them to make them listen. So I hear you, Nevada. Let me get an insight into your issues.”
by Main Nation Ministry » Wed Feb 05, 2020 12:53 am
Ben, a lot of political presidential candidates, etc have been around the state. Also, people are starting to get impatient about your pipeline project. Get back to the office, so you can work stuff out with the papers. - George
by Sarenium » Wed Feb 05, 2020 1:28 am
"This was where I grew up,"Jillian Dayton's voice said as the camera panned past her family home in Norfolk, VA.
"My mother, taught at the public school a few blocks away,"she stood in the center of the road, "and my father served aboard the USS Nimitz and USS Arleigh-Burke across his career. I was the local public prosecutor here until I first entered Congress in 2007 where I aimed to fix local schools, roads and hospitals. In my time in Congress, I worked diligently across party lines to deliver results for my constituents. Everything from expanded public areas to the Affordable Care Act."
"In 2013, I ran for and won, the Governor's mansion in Virginia. As Governor I worked across the aisle with the Republican controlled Legislature, to deliver universal tertiary education access, medicaid expansion, targeted veterans healthcare, better public transport and shrunk the state deficit. In 2020, we're going to put Fairness First nationwide. Its time that our democracy works for all of us, not just the lucky few. Its time that our schools reflect the world's wealthiest nation in history, properly. Its time that big pharmaceuticals stop gouging ordinary Americans their annual income, just so that they can live. Its now the time to ensure that the next generation of Americans aren't just living, but they're thriving. I'll deliver cheap universal education. I'll deliver medicare for all who want it. I'll deliver an anti-corruption law that prevents politicians from being owned by lobbyists. Join my campaign, and let's put Fairness First."
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...I'd like to do you slowly...
Just another Australian.
by Puertollano » Wed Feb 05, 2020 2:21 am
by Dentali » Thu Feb 06, 2020 9:27 am
Gordano and Lysandus wrote:Governor Jonah Prendergast Jr.
Wednesday 13th March
Nevada”Good evening everyone, it’s been an absolute pleasure to come to Nevada, and it’s a pleasure to meet all of you, everyday Nevadans who work so hard and contribute so much to making America great. We owe a lot to you.
Today, I’ve gotten to see a lot. Men maintaining 1930s technology to keep huge swathes of our country watered and powered. Herding huge quantities of cows to put beef on our tables. Miners who do one of the world’s hardest jobs and do it proudly, earning an honest wage and pleasing God by their labors. Nevada truly is the Silver State, not just because of the actual silver that still comes out of the ground, but because it sets a silver standard for us all to abide by. Hard work, honesty and home.
You don’t let yourselves be defined by the casinos in Reno and Vegas. You carve your own path, with the sweat off your backs and a determination that is concrete. It’s that essence of Americanism that makes your state so attractive to me, and I’m proud to have met so many of you today.
As I have said so far in all the states I have visited, I’m not here just to spout my views. I’m here to listen. Everything I hear on the trail gives me insight into the ordinary America that Washington has abandoned, and if they won’t come to you, then I will, and I’ll take it to them to make them listen. So I hear you, Nevada. Let me get an insight into your issues.”
And so it repeated, as it so inevitably did. The microphone handed out to the people with their questions.
by Agarntrop » Thu Feb 06, 2020 4:15 pm
Puertollano wrote:Agarntrop wrote:"Well, I have made comments advocating some regulation in the third trimester in the past."
Levi nodded. "I invited you here because I think you'd be a good asset for our team, nonetheless. With your support, we can take your career further, and currently as the top progressive candidate, I believe I can do that for you. What are your thoughts?"
by Azekopolaltion » Thu Feb 06, 2020 5:48 pm
And...we're live. Hey, it's me, Tim, and I'd like to thank everyone listening right now to our inaugural episode of Talk With Tim. This is a really exciting moment in American politics where politicians on both sides of the aisle are finding ways to directly communicate their message to the American people, and we have so many platforms to do that right now and it makes me excited about a new era of transparency in political discourse.
Talk With Tim: Episode 1 - The Public Option
Hosted by Senator Tim Westra
The idea of directly accessing constituents in presidential politics is, of course, not new. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, one of the greatest presidents in the history of our country, revolutionized how we converse with the people we serve when he started his Fireside Chats. It was a time of crisis, a time of uncertainty, a time of incredible hardship and destitution. But he managed to restore hope to everyday life with his authentic, sincere words in the evenings over radio.
Politics today lacks that authenticity, and part of what this campaign is trying very hard to do is restore a culture where compassion and empathy comes first. We live in a time where everything seems to be transactional, about getting results and what we can extract from each other. I hope that, if I have the honor of serving as your president, I'll be able to maintain a relationship of trust with you. Regular communication with Americans will be one of the ways that I will grow this relationship.
This podcast, it's going to be available on several platforms. You can obviously access it here on our YouTube Channel, or listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or Spotify. The goal is to get past a lot of the noise that pollutes the mainstream media cycle and just speak candidly to our supporters and to people who don't support us yet. I also hope to speak genuinely about the issues that matter, and about interesting topics that impact our lives. On that note, I want to begin on today's topic, which is the public option.
Our minds normally jump to healthcare when we hear that term, but really a public option goes far beyond healthcare. I think there should be a public option for everything. And it sounds like a really simple idea, right? The idea that we increase competition, create healthier markets, and provide universal access to services through social programs that belong to the public. And on the right, when we talk about public services, we usually get slammed with the "socialist" label. I push back on that, vehemently. I push back on the socialism label simply because we've moved so far to the right in this country that when we talk about collective action on anything, right, politicians and pundits are like, "Well, that's socialism." No it's not. It's about providing people with basic access to things that they need to live a dignified life. Is it socialism to build roads? Is it socialism to make sure that the air is clean? I don't think it is. I just think that's good government because in the end, the whole point of government or people coming together is to act collectively in the best interest of all of us. That's what government is.
And if Republicans are truly capitalists, I just don't get why they have this incessant fear of public options. What are they afraid of? That businesses won't be able to compete? If they're afraid of competition, then I'm sorry, we're not living in a healthy, realistic capitalist system. We're living under crony capitalism and oligarchy.
So where do I think are some big areas where public options need to be created? Banking is one. In this modern age, banking services are a necessity, so it remains personally shocking to me that rural communities in this supposedly "developed" country oftentimes don't have access to banking. So I'd pass legislation to allow the post office to provide basic banking services, which is done in other countries around the world, even India.
Access to internet services in this day and age is becoming almost a necessity. Again, our rural communities remain disconnected from functioning broadband and WiFi. I think we need to have a public, possibly free, option for internet. This isn’t a pie-in-the-sky idea: Chattanooga, Tennessee, a city with a population of about 180,000, has had a public option for high speed internet since 2010, and today more than 100,000 residents and businesses take advantage of it. It works well and I think this kind of service will be a boon to our consumer-driven, small-business driven economy - an economy that is increasingly operating online.
A public option for childcare and pre-k. Childcare remains a necessity for the 96% of our country that is in the workforce, and especially to low-income workers employed in several jobs who need someone to take care of their children. People shouldn't be falling into traps where they can't afford basic needs, so they work longer hours, but then need child care to work those long hours, so they work even longer hours to afford childcare. I've released a plan to publicly fund childcare and work with nonprofits and private service providers to create a network of affordable public childcare.
There should be a public option for jobs! Currently, Americans in labor jobs are increasingly forced into the private sector, where wages remain stagnant and they remain underemployed. Our workforce's skills should be put to best use, and they should be provided with a good wage. My plan for a Federal Jobs Guarantee would provide workers with at least $15 an hour, would provide them with a job they actually want, and force private industry to compete by raising wages.
Public higher education is unaffordable, with students graduating with record levels of unjust student debt. I would finally make higher education a true public good by eliminating tuition fees at four-year public colleges. It is simply unacceptable that we are hoisting unsustainable levels of debt onto our student population's shoulders. I would lower interest rates, ensure the government doesn't profit one cent off of student loans, and cancel debt for low-income borrowers.
And finally, the idea we hear about a lot. The public health insurance option. My specific plan, Medicare for America, is the best plan, the most detailed plan, to provide universal healthcare to our citizens. It would automatically enroll the uninsured, making healthcare instantly universal, and would be free for anybody earning below 200% of the poverty line, with an 8% income cap on premiums. It would be very affordable for anyone using it, and would bring down premium rates in the private health insurance industry as well. This is a common sense solution; this is how other countries operate their healthcare systems and reach universal healthcare. But public services in healthcare won't be limited to insurance under a Westra Administration. We'll also bring down the price of pharmaceutical drugs by manufacturing generics. The actions of Big Pharma are simply unacceptable, and no more Americans will be rationing their meds in our America. My schizophrenic father, who was a bus driver, used to ration his meds; I know all too well how this can break a family.
So there you have it. An American economy where competition is healthier, where services are accessible, and where everyone is guaranteed a minimum standard of dignity with the establishment of public options. This is going to promote economic freedom and economic justice simultaneously, and our campaign sees it as the best way of directly combatting the unchecked greed of corporate America.
So, I thank you for listening to our first episode. More will follow in the coming weeks and months. If you're inspired by our message, and want to join us in taking on the political and corporate establishment, please visit our page online and join the team or donate. You can also read more about our plans to restore power to working Americans on our website. Thank you, and I'll see you on the trail.
by Puertollano » Thu Feb 06, 2020 9:21 pm
Agarntrop wrote:Puertollano wrote:
Levi nodded. "I invited you here because I think you'd be a good asset for our team, nonetheless. With your support, we can take your career further, and currently as the top progressive candidate, I believe I can do that for you. What are your thoughts?"
"I can't be jumping to presumptions right now. And if I were to back you, you'd seriously have to knock off the antisemitism."
by Puertollano » Thu Feb 06, 2020 9:47 pm
WIN BACK THE WHITE HOUSE
Levi the Elect-able
by Agarntrop » Fri Feb 07, 2020 8:59 am
by Puertollano » Fri Feb 07, 2020 3:07 pm
by The World Capitalist Confederation » Fri Feb 07, 2020 3:16 pm
by Dentali » Sat Feb 08, 2020 10:42 am
Gillian: Good Evening and Welcome to NBC 3 Las Vegas nightly news, i’m senior political reporter Jeff Gillian and today I am joined by Governor and Republican Presidential candidate Nathaniel Richardson. Nathaniel Richardson is on the tail end of his second term as Governor of North Carolina and previously served as a member of the House of Representatives. Thank you for joining us Governor.
Richardson: My pleasure Jeff thank you for having me.
Gillian: I want to begin by asking about education, in Nevada today we have a seemingly systematic problem with teacher retention and by extension high class sizes. We are not the only state in the country with this problem… How would a potential Richardson administration aid states in retaining teachers and providing a better education for students?
Richardson: Being a teacher is tough as heck and doesn’t pay nearly well enough for teachers starting out. My education plan involves things like ESAs, an education savings account where parents can help customize their child’s education. Empowering parents lets them reward the best schools providing the best education and by extension the best teachers.
We need to reward the teachers who are innovating and the schools which are prioritizing teacher quality and general efficiency. Right now we have far too much waste and handouts to teachers unions that reward union officials instead of the people actually teaching classes.
Gillian: The most thriving regions in the country seem to have an excellent transportation infrastructure. What would you do to support upgrading and repairing our country's infrastructure?
Richardson: Our nation’s crumbling roads and bridges are shameful, and the fact that Congress couldn’t get its act together to tackle something that is universally acknowledged as an absolute necessity. In my administration we would move forward on this in a number of ways.
Firstly we reform the excessive regulations and permitting process that is weighing us down. The United States is ranked 15th out of the 33 OECD countries for ease of permitting, its cost businesses hundreds of billions every year and perhaps more importantly time. The paperwork, bureaucrats, the army of lawyers… smaller companies can’t compete for projects because of the burden, and the only jobs it creates are lawyers. Even President (Not Obama) admitted that his “shovel ready jobs were not as shovel ready as expected” due to regulations, which he then granted over 170,000 exclusions for to get the stimulus moving. Why should only certain companies and projects get those exclusions? The government should not be picking winners and losers. And furthermore the government has a long history of blowing it when it comes to big projects, California’s high speed rail, Alaska’s Bridge to nowhere… happens again and again.
Top-Down, tax and spend approaches are not good policies, they are ineffective, politically driven and wasteful. If Americans want the most bang for their buck we need to lead with regulatory reform. Then we reform spending, specifically the Highway Trust Fund which receives revenue from the gas tax and takes 28 cents on the dollar for non highway projects when it should be used to maintain roads and bridges. Spending and regulatory reform for our transportation department can generate around a trillion in new investments from the private sector not to mention the properly allocated billions in the Department.
Gillian: Nevada has offered hundreds of million in tax abatements to companies such as Tesla and Apple to induce investments in the state and diversify the economy? Do you believe in corporate tax breaks to create economic growth and create jobs?
Richardson: As I said earlier the Government shouldn’t be picking winners and losers, ultimately it’s up to individual states and municipalities but in a very general sense I think it’s a better investment to lower the overall tax burden rather than giving individual handouts. Now diversification of a state’s economy is essential to its health and sometimes a state or a country needs to make a conscious effort to move in a different direction but that should always happen with as little government intervention as possible and in the most general way they can. Offering a tax break to any company in a certain field rather than trying to get individual ones. This also benefits small businesses and entrepreneurs more as startup likely don’t have the kind of lobbying power Amazon, Tesla or Apple have.
Gillian: Nevada has a large Hispanic population, many of them immigrants. As President, how would you move forward on immigration policy?
Richardson: We need merit based immigration reform, our system right now is full of fraud and abuse, it’s overloaded and the people with actual legal claims to enter the country aren’t able to get through. And then we have the Dreamers who are Americans in all but name and should have a path to full American citizenship
If I could waive a magic wand and create a new system from scratch it would be modeled on Canada and Australia who allow individual provinces to request immigrants with different skill sets. Nevada has a huge ranches and needs workers with experience dealing with livestock. They can ask for a number of immigrants with the relevant experience based on need. Those immigrants would need to stay in the state and in that field for a set period of time before being allowed to apply for citizenship or move states. If the state gets the number wrong or loses track or a portion of the immigrants then they would be penalized in the number of immigrants they can request in future years.
I believe immigration is in general one of our country's greatest strengths, but that doesn’t mean we blindly let everyone cross the border. Tens of thousands of children get trafficked across the border into sex slavery every years, we have gang violence and people coming into communities where jobs are already scarce. We have a right to protect and monitor our borders, and to make sure we are taking the right number of people in with the in demand skills.
Gillian: Polls consistently point to healthcare as the chief issue of the election, and it played a key role in democrats retaking the house in 2018. What are the next steps for healthcare in the country?
Richardson: I am very proud to have spearheaded healthcare reform in the past few years in my state. I worked across the aisle with the legislature to create Carolina Choice Care, which is patient centered, consumer focused, market based and is steadily reducing costs across the board. I’ve gotten bi-partisan healthcare reform done, it wasn’t easy but its working. I am the only person in this race on either side of the aisle who can say that.
You want to reduce costs… well the ACA gave the government much more control of healthcare and we heard it was supposed to cut costs by thousands... I don't know about you all but my health insurance cost nearly doubled, especially factoring in co-pays and deductibles. CCC created more competition and less government controls, empowering consumers, and that’s why prices are going down.
We should let consumers pick from a wide array of options, direct primary care, short term plans, catastrophic coverage, or cadillac coverage. Everyone getting government dollars for healthcare gets to choose how to use those dollars instead of a government bureaucrat. The ACA has a structure that gives insurance companies control over subsidies which allowed them to raise prices. Giving the money directly to consumers will allow them to pick the quality private coverage of their choice.
Gillian: Thats all the time we have, thank you Governor.
Richardson: My pleasure
by Agarntrop » Sun Feb 09, 2020 3:57 pm
by Puertollano » Sun Feb 09, 2020 4:05 pm
by The World Capitalist Confederation » Mon Feb 10, 2020 12:28 am
by Agarntrop » Mon Feb 10, 2020 1:27 pm
Puertollano wrote:Agarntrop wrote:"No no, after that."
Levi reached out to get his phone. He went onto twitter.
"I posted, after my initial tweet about hoping everyone was okay, that I wouldn't pulverize any groups of people in response. This was in reaction to a Republican who promised to pulverize Palestinians for what occurred. As an anti-interventionist, I stand very strongly against that."
by Puertollano » Mon Feb 10, 2020 3:06 pm
Agarntrop wrote:Puertollano wrote:
Levi reached out to get his phone. He went onto twitter.
"I posted, after my initial tweet about hoping everyone was okay, that I wouldn't pulverize any groups of people in response. This was in reaction to a Republican who promised to pulverize Palestinians for what occurred. As an anti-interventionist, I stand very strongly against that."
"Oh, that was fine, I was talking about one some time later that accused Israel of being a state founded on the principles that governed the apartheid racial supremacist dictatorship in South Africa in the late 20th Century, when it is in reality the most democratic country in the middle east."
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