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In reply to the discussion: If you're like me and didn't hear anything about HRC improving my life or my family's life...its OK. [View all]Haveadream
(1,630 posts)119. A list of some of the ways HRC might improve your life
Issues she will fight for on your behalf bolded.
As a former secretary of state, U.S. senator, first lady, and a lifelong advocate for women and families, no one is more qualified to be president than Hillary.
Hillary knows child care, equal pay, and paid leave are fundamental economic issuesnot just womens issues.
Our democracy should work for everyonenot just the wealthy and well-connected.
Our next president could make multiple appointments to the Supreme Court.
We need comprehensive background checks on gun purchases.
Shell fight to overturn Citizens United to curb the outsized influence of big money in politics.
Because the wealthiest should pay their fair share in taxes.
We need comprehensive immigration reform that includes a path to full and equal citizenship.
Shes set a big goal: More than half a billion solar panels installed across the country by the end of her first term.
Shes set another big goal: To generate enough renewable energy to power every home in America within 10 years of her taking office.
The economy is stronger when a Democrat is in the White House.
Hillary will defend Planned Parenthood and womens health care from Republican attacks.
Hillarys New College Compact would mean students would never have to borrow to pay for tuition to attend a four-year public college in their stateand the millions of Americans who have student debt can refinance.
Because taxpayers shouldnt pay for millionaires and billionaires kids to go to college.
Guaranteed paid family leave.
She declared on the world stage that gay rights are human rights.
Experts say Hillarys plan to keep Wall Street accountable is the toughest of all Democratic candidates.
As first lady, she helped get health care coverage for 8 million American children.
Our veterans should have access to timely and high quality health care.
Shes the only Democrat with hedge-fund billionaires running ads against herbecause they know her agenda is to stop their agenda.
After decades of fighting for progressive issues (and 11 straight hours of testimony in front of a Republican-led congressional committee), shes proved nobody can stand up to Republicans better than she can.
Hillary believes that raising middle-class incomes is the defining economic challenge of our timeand she has a plan to do just that.
Suspected terrorists, domestic abusers, other violent criminals, and the severely mentally ill shouldnt be able to purchase a gun.
Because every 4-year-old in America should be able to go to a high-quality preschool in the next 10 years.
We need to invest in infrastructure and rebuild or expand our roads, bridges, rail, broadband, public transit, and water and energy infrastructure.
We need to protect Americans right to votenot billionaires and corporations right to buy elections.
Have you seen the Republican debates?
Hillary will work to keep families together and defend President Obamas executive actions that protect DREAMers.
She has spent her life fighting for a fairer America.
Shes been fighting for women and children her entire careerever since she started working at the Childrens Defense Fund after law school.
She believes we need a new and comprehensive commitment to equity and opportunity for communities of color.
Shell empower veterans and strengthen our economy and communities by connecting their unique skills to the jobs of the future.
Prescription drugs still cost too much. Hillary has a plan to reduce the cost of prescription drugs.
As senator, she championed the Paycheck Fairness Act and co-sponsored the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to help close the wage gap so women earn equal pay.
Community college should be tuition-free for every American.
Its time to close the Charleston loophole that lets otherwise prohibited individuals buy a gun if their background check is not complete in three days.
Hillary negotiated a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that ended the rain of rockets on Israel.
Smart power is a smart strategy.
We need a president who will crack down on companies that send profits overseas to avoid paying their fair share.
Shell defend Social Security and Medicare against Republican attacks.
We need a president with a plan to protect the transgender community from violence.
If Congress continues its refusal to act on comprehensive immigration reform, Hillary has a plan to actand do everything possible under the law to protect families.
She knows how to find common ground to get the job donebut also how to stand her ground.
Hillary is prepared to tackle all challenges, including national securitybecause presidents dont get to choose which issues come to their desks.
She has a plan to reform mandatory minimum sentencing.
We need a small-business president.
Because every American citizen should be automatically registered to vote when they turn 18, unless they opt out. Hillary will get it done.
Shes a progressiveand shes a progressive who gets things done.
Immigration enforcement must be humane and targetedand shell end family detention and close private detention centers.
Hillary has a plan to reduce the risk of future financial crises.
Because we should hold corporations and individuals on Wall Street accountableand prosecute them when they break the law.
Shes one tough mother.
She fought for health care for 9/11 first responders as a U.S. senatorand shes been a vocal advocate for a permanent renewal of the Zadroga Act.
Its time to end for-profit private prisons in America.
The Affordable Care Act is workingbut you could still use a lower co-pay and deductible.
Hillary will defend and fight to restore collective bargaining rights for workers.
She knows historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) serve an important public mission and will make a significant commitment to them.
We need to end the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.
Because its time to end conversion therapy for LGBT minors.
Hillary will put a stop to Republicans systematic efforts to stop millions of people from voting.
We need a president who will fight to restore the protections of the Voting Rights Act after they were gutted by the Supreme Court.
Hillary helped negotiate the toughest sanctions Iran has ever faced.
Shes earned the wrath of the gun lobby, Iran, pharmaceutical companies, and special interestsand that should tell you something about who shes fighting for.
She has a plan to invest in American manufacturing and revitalize communities that have lost manufacturing jobs.
She knows whats going on in Laos.
She believes we should let families buy into the Affordable Care Act health care exchanges regardless of immigration status.
Prison is not a substitute for treatment for drug addiction and mental health issuesHillary knows that and will do something about it.
We can create a new national standard of no fewer than 20 days of early in-person voting in every state.
Because those at the top are doing just fine. Its your family who needs a fighter in the White House.
Hillary has a plan to combat Americas deadly epidemic of drug and alcohol addiction.
In the words of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: Ive never met anyone more prepared to be president.
She has a plan to make our financial system fairer and more accountable.
High-quality K12 education needs to be a priority for every child in America.
As secretary of state, Hillary lobbied for the first-ever U.N. Human Rights Council resolution on LGBT human rights.
She made LGBT rights a priority of U.S. foreign policy.
In the words of the Advocate, Hillary has an awesome LGBT agenda to protect and expand LGBT rights.
Shes not afraid to stand up to discriminatory attempts to roll back voting rights in places like Alabama.
Hillary knows Muslim Americans are helping our communities succeed and are our first, last, and best line of defense against radical jihadism.
Unlike the Republicans, Hillary will defend marriage equality nationwide.
She will provide funding to make sure body cameras are available to every police department in America to increase accountability on both sides of the lens.
Keith in New Hampshire
Shell expand on-campus child care and scholarships to help student parents balance going to school with raising a child.
The NRA has never helped Hillary get elected.
Her first major address as a presidential candidate was a call to end the era of mass incarceration.
Shell fight to end racial profiling in America.
Shell hold irresponsible gun dealers and manufacturers fully accountable if they endanger Americansand that includes repealing the gun industrys unique immunity protection.
She worked to expand the Family Medical Leave Act, allowing families of those wounded in service to their country to take leave in order to care for their loved ones.
Family members who care for ailing parents and grandparents could use some tax relief.
She has called out the Republicans offensive, inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric because she knows its against our values as Americansand our national security.
Because when a company does well, the employees who helped produce those profits deserve a share in themnot just CEOs.
She believes we should use alternatives to incarceration for low-level, nonviolent marijuana users, and she will reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule II substance.
Shes not afraid to to call out Republicans for blocking efforts to keep guns from suspected terrorists.
She helped lead the charge to raise the minimum wage as a senator.
Building international coalitions advances our values, interests, and makes the world safer. Hillary is the only candidate whos actually done it.
She worked across the aisle to expand health care access for members of the National Guard and reservistsmaking sure those who served and their families had access to health care when they returned home.
We should put American families over the gun lobbyand Hillary is not afraid to stand up to the NRA.
There are cities across the country that are already leading on climate changeso shell launch a Clean Energy Challenge that will form new partnerships with states, cities, and rural communities.
Shell ban the box so people who have a past conviction can get a fair shot at employment.
When Hillary was secretary of state, the U.S. extended antiretroviral therapywhich helps HIV/AIDS patients live longer, healthier livesto 78 countries.
Businesses should be encouraged to train and hire apprentices.
The nations leading advocates for gun violence prevention have said Hillarys plan is the right strategy.
Because womens rights are human rights.
Because even when people didnt want her to go to China and stand up for human rights at the 1995 U.N. Conference on Women in Beijing, she did it anyway.
Because a womans place is in the White House.
Donald Trump. Enough said.
As a former secretary of state, U.S. senator, first lady, and a lifelong advocate for women and families, no one is more qualified to be president than Hillary.
Hillary knows child care, equal pay, and paid leave are fundamental economic issuesnot just womens issues.
Our democracy should work for everyonenot just the wealthy and well-connected.
Our next president could make multiple appointments to the Supreme Court.
We need comprehensive background checks on gun purchases.
Shell fight to overturn Citizens United to curb the outsized influence of big money in politics.
Because the wealthiest should pay their fair share in taxes.
We need comprehensive immigration reform that includes a path to full and equal citizenship.
Shes set a big goal: More than half a billion solar panels installed across the country by the end of her first term.
Shes set another big goal: To generate enough renewable energy to power every home in America within 10 years of her taking office.
The economy is stronger when a Democrat is in the White House.
Hillary will defend Planned Parenthood and womens health care from Republican attacks.
Hillarys New College Compact would mean students would never have to borrow to pay for tuition to attend a four-year public college in their stateand the millions of Americans who have student debt can refinance.
Because taxpayers shouldnt pay for millionaires and billionaires kids to go to college.
Guaranteed paid family leave.
She declared on the world stage that gay rights are human rights.
Experts say Hillarys plan to keep Wall Street accountable is the toughest of all Democratic candidates.
As first lady, she helped get health care coverage for 8 million American children.
Our veterans should have access to timely and high quality health care.
Shes the only Democrat with hedge-fund billionaires running ads against herbecause they know her agenda is to stop their agenda.
After decades of fighting for progressive issues (and 11 straight hours of testimony in front of a Republican-led congressional committee), shes proved nobody can stand up to Republicans better than she can.
Hillary believes that raising middle-class incomes is the defining economic challenge of our timeand she has a plan to do just that.
Suspected terrorists, domestic abusers, other violent criminals, and the severely mentally ill shouldnt be able to purchase a gun.
Because every 4-year-old in America should be able to go to a high-quality preschool in the next 10 years.
We need to invest in infrastructure and rebuild or expand our roads, bridges, rail, broadband, public transit, and water and energy infrastructure.
We need to protect Americans right to votenot billionaires and corporations right to buy elections.
Have you seen the Republican debates?
Hillary will work to keep families together and defend President Obamas executive actions that protect DREAMers.
She has spent her life fighting for a fairer America.
Shes been fighting for women and children her entire careerever since she started working at the Childrens Defense Fund after law school.
She believes we need a new and comprehensive commitment to equity and opportunity for communities of color.
Shell empower veterans and strengthen our economy and communities by connecting their unique skills to the jobs of the future.
Prescription drugs still cost too much. Hillary has a plan to reduce the cost of prescription drugs.
As senator, she championed the Paycheck Fairness Act and co-sponsored the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to help close the wage gap so women earn equal pay.
Community college should be tuition-free for every American.
Its time to close the Charleston loophole that lets otherwise prohibited individuals buy a gun if their background check is not complete in three days.
Hillary negotiated a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that ended the rain of rockets on Israel.
Smart power is a smart strategy.
We need a president who will crack down on companies that send profits overseas to avoid paying their fair share.
Shell defend Social Security and Medicare against Republican attacks.
We need a president with a plan to protect the transgender community from violence.
If Congress continues its refusal to act on comprehensive immigration reform, Hillary has a plan to actand do everything possible under the law to protect families.
She knows how to find common ground to get the job donebut also how to stand her ground.
Hillary is prepared to tackle all challenges, including national securitybecause presidents dont get to choose which issues come to their desks.
She has a plan to reform mandatory minimum sentencing.
We need a small-business president.
Because every American citizen should be automatically registered to vote when they turn 18, unless they opt out. Hillary will get it done.
Shes a progressiveand shes a progressive who gets things done.
Immigration enforcement must be humane and targetedand shell end family detention and close private detention centers.
Hillary has a plan to reduce the risk of future financial crises.
Because we should hold corporations and individuals on Wall Street accountableand prosecute them when they break the law.
Shes one tough mother.
She fought for health care for 9/11 first responders as a U.S. senatorand shes been a vocal advocate for a permanent renewal of the Zadroga Act.
Its time to end for-profit private prisons in America.
The Affordable Care Act is workingbut you could still use a lower co-pay and deductible.
Hillary will defend and fight to restore collective bargaining rights for workers.
She knows historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) serve an important public mission and will make a significant commitment to them.
We need to end the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.
Because its time to end conversion therapy for LGBT minors.
Hillary will put a stop to Republicans systematic efforts to stop millions of people from voting.
We need a president who will fight to restore the protections of the Voting Rights Act after they were gutted by the Supreme Court.
Hillary helped negotiate the toughest sanctions Iran has ever faced.
Shes earned the wrath of the gun lobby, Iran, pharmaceutical companies, and special interestsand that should tell you something about who shes fighting for.
She has a plan to invest in American manufacturing and revitalize communities that have lost manufacturing jobs.
She knows whats going on in Laos.
She believes we should let families buy into the Affordable Care Act health care exchanges regardless of immigration status.
Prison is not a substitute for treatment for drug addiction and mental health issuesHillary knows that and will do something about it.
We can create a new national standard of no fewer than 20 days of early in-person voting in every state.
Because those at the top are doing just fine. Its your family who needs a fighter in the White House.
Hillary has a plan to combat Americas deadly epidemic of drug and alcohol addiction.
In the words of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: Ive never met anyone more prepared to be president.
She has a plan to make our financial system fairer and more accountable.
High-quality K12 education needs to be a priority for every child in America.
As secretary of state, Hillary lobbied for the first-ever U.N. Human Rights Council resolution on LGBT human rights.
She made LGBT rights a priority of U.S. foreign policy.
In the words of the Advocate, Hillary has an awesome LGBT agenda to protect and expand LGBT rights.
Shes not afraid to stand up to discriminatory attempts to roll back voting rights in places like Alabama.
Hillary knows Muslim Americans are helping our communities succeed and are our first, last, and best line of defense against radical jihadism.
Unlike the Republicans, Hillary will defend marriage equality nationwide.
She will provide funding to make sure body cameras are available to every police department in America to increase accountability on both sides of the lens.
Keith in New Hampshire
Shell expand on-campus child care and scholarships to help student parents balance going to school with raising a child.
The NRA has never helped Hillary get elected.
Her first major address as a presidential candidate was a call to end the era of mass incarceration.
Shell fight to end racial profiling in America.
Shell hold irresponsible gun dealers and manufacturers fully accountable if they endanger Americansand that includes repealing the gun industrys unique immunity protection.
She worked to expand the Family Medical Leave Act, allowing families of those wounded in service to their country to take leave in order to care for their loved ones.
Family members who care for ailing parents and grandparents could use some tax relief.
She has called out the Republicans offensive, inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric because she knows its against our values as Americansand our national security.
Because when a company does well, the employees who helped produce those profits deserve a share in themnot just CEOs.
She believes we should use alternatives to incarceration for low-level, nonviolent marijuana users, and she will reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule II substance.
Shes not afraid to to call out Republicans for blocking efforts to keep guns from suspected terrorists.
She helped lead the charge to raise the minimum wage as a senator.
Building international coalitions advances our values, interests, and makes the world safer. Hillary is the only candidate whos actually done it.
She worked across the aisle to expand health care access for members of the National Guard and reservistsmaking sure those who served and their families had access to health care when they returned home.
We should put American families over the gun lobbyand Hillary is not afraid to stand up to the NRA.
There are cities across the country that are already leading on climate changeso shell launch a Clean Energy Challenge that will form new partnerships with states, cities, and rural communities.
Shell ban the box so people who have a past conviction can get a fair shot at employment.
When Hillary was secretary of state, the U.S. extended antiretroviral therapywhich helps HIV/AIDS patients live longer, healthier livesto 78 countries.
Businesses should be encouraged to train and hire apprentices.
The nations leading advocates for gun violence prevention have said Hillarys plan is the right strategy.
Because womens rights are human rights.
Because even when people didnt want her to go to China and stand up for human rights at the 1995 U.N. Conference on Women in Beijing, she did it anyway.
Because a womans place is in the White House.
Donald Trump. Enough said.
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If you're like me and didn't hear anything about HRC improving my life or my family's life...its OK. [View all]
aikoaiko
Jul 2016
OP
And thank you. I think you may be the only responder who got what I was try to say.
aikoaiko
Jul 2016
#48
I like/love those people too, but I'm generally look for politicians to represent my interests too
aikoaiko
Jul 2016
#14
You don't believe that lifting those around you brings positive impact & improvement to your life?
Maru Kitteh
Jul 2016
#89
Not directly. And vice versa I don't think my life improving necessarily helps others directly.
aikoaiko
Jul 2016
#91
Ah, so THAT's what this is about. Your feelings are still hurt from the primary.
Maru Kitteh
Jul 2016
#92
I'm not sure if I'm like you, but Hillary improved my life in immeasurable ways.
lapucelle
Jul 2016
#4
Then perhaps you can identify with the people who got better internet connectivity.
lapucelle
Jul 2016
#39
we're all in this together. we all benefit from living in a more just society.
geek tragedy
Jul 2016
#5
I graduated HS in the late 80s in NJ. HRC didn't have much of impact up there.
aikoaiko
Jul 2016
#20
That's sort of my point. I hear people saying they will vote for Hillary to improve their lives
aikoaiko
Jul 2016
#21
"...I suppose that sounds selfish,..." Well.... ok... we agree here if what you're going to look at
uponit7771
Jul 2016
#26
If you aren't doing well then I can promise you Clintons platform speaks to you.
NCTraveler
Jul 2016
#37
To the above poster, I was trying to say that I'm not doing so well that I can't forget about my...
aikoaiko
Jul 2016
#46
Then you can have the confidence in knowing that your son will have insurance coverage,
blue neen
Jul 2016
#62
I must have missed the part where she gave her acceptance speech tonight.
RonniePudding
Jul 2016
#35
I think in general, vague ways life will be better with HRC. And nothing like the disaster of Trump.
aikoaiko
Jul 2016
#55
I'm a child-free single woman so her work for families and children doesn't
kestrel91316
Jul 2016
#86
I think it is up to us to improve our lives if we can and let the government help those
upaloopa
Jul 2016
#54
She will be appointing Supreme Court justicess who will make decisions that could affect all of us.
pnwmom
Jul 2016
#60
The ACA DID affect you, if there is any possibility you could find yourself out of a job.
pnwmom
Jul 2016
#79
I think the pre-existing conditions protections is an amazingly good thing that has helped many.
aikoaiko
Jul 2016
#99
240 years of racial hegemony isn't enough? Minorities and women can't even fight to be equal
BobbyDrake
Jul 2016
#67
Yes, but I think we probably disagree on how that should impact this conversation.
aikoaiko
Jul 2016
#93
For the most part, post is a wonderful tribute to Hillary and her accomplishments helping people.
emulatorloo
Jul 2016
#103
Correct, Night 2 was about the fights HRC fought and that was what I was commenting on.
aikoaiko
Jul 2016
#80
Thank you. Given my privileged, self-interested POV that is who I'm trying to reach.
aikoaiko
Jul 2016
#98
Ironically, that will be the argument that the right will use. However, she is not selective as
still_one
Jul 2016
#100
It definitely can be viewed exactly as you described, and I will accept that is what the OP meant in
still_one
Jul 2016
#104
I've asked him to keep an open mind as he listens to HRC on issues like income equality etc
emulatorloo
Jul 2016
#106
Health care, Women's rights, (that includes ALL women from all backgrounds", Consistently
still_one
Jul 2016
#113
Really beautiful post. Thank you for taking the time to write and post it.
emulatorloo
Jul 2016
#101
Thank you for the kind reply. I don't think it is beautiful but it is honest.
aikoaiko
Jul 2016
#114
I don't care. You seem to think we worry about you, your life, your vote, etc
anneboleyn
Jul 2016
#118
I support many of the things that HRC has done and hospitals more than 100 miles away.
aikoaiko
Jul 2016
#129