Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Using Technology To Make The Dollar Go Further

Pete Souza, Official White House Photographer
Pete Souza, Official White House Photographer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I have not read up on every Bernie idea. What I have read I have come across while reading election news. Which means, I have not deeply studied a single Bernie idea. But what I have read feels doable and, quite frankly, not enough. But he does not seem to be making any attempt to connect the dots. The dots can be connected.

Hillary is being rewarded across the US South by blacks because she served four years under Barack Obama. They were for Hillary before they were for Barack Obama. Now they are back with Hillary. For people with the black experience (the patent thing) it would mean a lot to you that Hillary served under Obama. They are like, Bernie who? That is where I myself was last year.

The gender thing is, women have to be made to feel equal at the workplace. Universal pre-K, universal child care, universal public transportation. Pay equality. Paid family leave. I believe workplaces with in-built child care would outproduce workplaces without. The obvious things. If women can be made to achieve purchasing power parity, the rest flows from there. Right now they don't even have an equal seat at the table.

It's not just about taxing people more, or getting a bigger bite out of the current budget. In fact, if you take a slightly bigger bite out of the current budget, you don't need a higher tax rate. But mostly it is just about using technology to make the dollar further. As in, better execute. Do more with less. It is not lack of money. It is lack of imagination.

Hillary Clinton could not ask for anything  better than Donald Trump as Opposition Leader for eight years. And Donald Trump could not ask for anything better for himself.

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