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In reply to the discussion: In Event Honoring MLK, Bernie Sanders Comments on Race and Barack Obama Raise Eyebrows [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)standards, creating a difference by promising more and right NOW. That is why when experts examine his economic promises they found his numbers didn't add up, the processes by which he would make it happen not explained, and those promises assessed to be unachievable.
Because if NOW was the time and his greater goals doable, WE would be doing them. Of course.
All of Hillary's goals were assessed to be achievable as she planned and promised them. Though not all would have been achieved: presidents on average have fulfilled roughly 73% of their campaign promises, but what hers would have been would have depended on whether we also gained a majority in the house or "merely" had the presidency and the senate.
Not failing voters, btw, is why she decided 2016 was not the time to say we would implement a universal basic income (UBI) paid for, as she hoped, by carbon and financial transaction taxes. "We couldn't make the numbers work," and so she didn't promise to implement it, just planned to work on it for the future.
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