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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton's Internet Supporters Desperately Want This Campaign to be about Sexism [View all]SunSeeker
(53,177 posts)57. Your silly graphic does not list her plans. Her plans are on hillaryclinton.com.
Just two examples:
College
The New College Compact:
Costs wont be a barrier, debt wont hold you back.
Hillary will:
Ensure no student has to borrow to pay for tuition, books, or fees to attend a four-year public college in their state.
Enable Americans with existing student loan debt to refinance at current rates.
Hold colleges and universities accountable for controlling costs and making tuition affordable.
We need to make a quality education affordable and available to everyone willing to work for it, without saddling them with decades of debt.
HILLARY, AUGUST 10, 2015
Hillary has a vision for America in which education is attainable for all. The New College Compact will ensure that costs arent a barrier to college and that debt doesnt hold Americans back.
Heres what every student and family should expect under Hillarys plan:
Costs won't be a barrier.
Students should never have to borrow to pay for tuition, books, and fees to attend a four-year public college in their state under the New College Compact. Pell Grants are not included in the calculation of no-debt-tuition, so Pell recipients will be able to use their grants fully for living expenses. Students at community college will receive free tuition.
Students will do their part by contributing their earnings from working 10 hours a week.
Families will do their part by making an affordable and realistic family contribution.
The federal government will make a major investment in the New College Compact by providing grants to states that commit to these goals, and by cutting interest rates on loans.
States will have to step up and meet their obligation to invest in higher education by maintaining current levels of higher education funding and reinvesting over time.
Colleges and universities will be accountable for improving outcomes and controlling costs to ensure that tuition is affordable and that students who invest in college leave with a degree.
We will encourage innovators who design imaginative new ways of providing a valuable college education to studentswhile cracking down on abusive practices that burden students with debt without value.
A $25 billion fund will support HBCUs, HSIs, and other MSIs serving a high percentage of Pell Grant recipients to help lower the cost of attendance and improve student outcomes at low-cost, modest-endowment nonprofit private schools.
The New College Compact:
Costs wont be a barrier, debt wont hold you back.
Hillary will:
Ensure no student has to borrow to pay for tuition, books, or fees to attend a four-year public college in their state.
Enable Americans with existing student loan debt to refinance at current rates.
Hold colleges and universities accountable for controlling costs and making tuition affordable.
We need to make a quality education affordable and available to everyone willing to work for it, without saddling them with decades of debt.
HILLARY, AUGUST 10, 2015
Hillary has a vision for America in which education is attainable for all. The New College Compact will ensure that costs arent a barrier to college and that debt doesnt hold Americans back.
Heres what every student and family should expect under Hillarys plan:
Costs won't be a barrier.
Students should never have to borrow to pay for tuition, books, and fees to attend a four-year public college in their state under the New College Compact. Pell Grants are not included in the calculation of no-debt-tuition, so Pell recipients will be able to use their grants fully for living expenses. Students at community college will receive free tuition.
Students will do their part by contributing their earnings from working 10 hours a week.
Families will do their part by making an affordable and realistic family contribution.
The federal government will make a major investment in the New College Compact by providing grants to states that commit to these goals, and by cutting interest rates on loans.
States will have to step up and meet their obligation to invest in higher education by maintaining current levels of higher education funding and reinvesting over time.
Colleges and universities will be accountable for improving outcomes and controlling costs to ensure that tuition is affordable and that students who invest in college leave with a degree.
We will encourage innovators who design imaginative new ways of providing a valuable college education to studentswhile cracking down on abusive practices that burden students with debt without value.
A $25 billion fund will support HBCUs, HSIs, and other MSIs serving a high percentage of Pell Grant recipients to help lower the cost of attendance and improve student outcomes at low-cost, modest-endowment nonprofit private schools.
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/college/
Climate change and clean energy
Making America the worlds clean energy superpower and meeting the climate challenge.
Hillary will:
Create good-paying jobs by making the United States the clean energy superpower of the 21st century.
Set national goals to have 500 million solar panels installed; generate enough renewable energy to power every home in America; cut energy waste in homes, schools, and hospitals by a third; and reduce American oil consumption by a third.
Lead the world in the fight against climate change by bringing greenhouse gas emissions to 30 percent below what they were in 2005 within the next decadeand keep going.
"I wont let anyone take us backward, deny our economy the benefits of harnessing a clean energy future, or force our children to endure the catastrophe that would result from unchecked climate change."
HILLARY, NOVEMBER 29, 2015
Climate change is an urgent threat and a defining challenge of our timeand Hillary Clinton has a plan to tackle it by making America the worlds clean energy superpower, taking bold steps to slash carbon pollution at home and around the world, and ensuring no Americans are left out or left behind as we rapidly build a clean energy economy.
2015 was the warmest year on recordand 15 of the 16 hottest years on record have come just since 2001. Already, American families are seeing the impacts of climate change with their own eyes, from the record drought in California to the frequently flooded streets of Miami and Annapolis. While climate deniers continue to ignore settled science because it does not suit their political agenda, and climate defeatists doubt Americas ability to meet this challenge, Hillary knows that America is fully up to the task.
Already, U.S. carbon pollution has been cut to its lowest level since 1995. Wind power has expanded three fold and solar power 30-fold since 2008. But thats not enough to tackle the climate challenge, meet Americas carbon pollution reduction goals, or to compete for the $13.5 trillion of global clean energy investment unlocked by the historic international climate change agreement reached in Paris. We can and must go further.
Thats why on day one, Hillary will set bold, national goals that will be achieved within ten years of her taking office:
Generate enough renewable energy to power every home in America, with half a billion solar panels installed by the end of Hillarys first term.
Cut energy waste in American homes, schools, hospitals and offices by a third and make American manufacturing the cleanest and most efficient in the world.
Reduce American oil consumption by a thirdthrough cleaner fuels and more efficient cars, boilers, ships and trucks.
Hillarys plan is designed to deliver on the pledge President Obama made at the Paris climate conference last Decemberwithout relying on climate deniers in Congress to pass new legislation. Her plan will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 30 percent in 2025 relative to 2005 levels and put the country on a path to cut emissions more than 80 percent by 2050.Her approach will catalyze new investment and economic opportunity across the country, create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, reduce energy bills and save families money, make our country more secure, and protect our families and communities from pollution.
As president, Hillary will:
Defend, implement, and extend smart pollution and efficiency standards, including the Clean Power Plan, which will prevent 3,600 premature deaths and 90,000 asthma attacks annually, and efficiency standards for cars, trucks and appliances that are already reducing energy costs for American households and businesses by over $75 billion per year.
Launch a $60 billion Clean Energy Challenge to partner with states, cities, and rural communities and give them the tools and resources they need to go beyond federal standards in cutting carbon pollution and expanding clean energy. The Clean Energy Challenge will also help ensure all Americans share in the benefits of a clean energy economy by encouraging solar and energy efficiency investments in low-income communities.
Invest in clean energy infrastructure, innovation, manufacturing and workforce development to make the U.S. economy more competitive and create good paying jobs and careers. Hillary has a comprehensive plan for making existing energy infrastructure cleaner and safer, unlocking new investment, and forging a climate compact with Canada and Mexico to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate clean energy deployment across the continent.
Ensure safe and responsible energy production. As we transition to a clean energy economy, we must ensure that the fossil fuel production taking place today is safe and responsible and that areas too sensitive for energy production are taken off the table. Hillary knows there are some places where we should keep fossil fuels in the ground or under the ocean.
The Arctic is a unique treasure. Given what we know, it's not worth the risk of drilling. -H
Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton)August 18, 2015
Reform leasing on public lands. As president, Hillary would reform fossil fuel leasing and significantly expand clean energy production on public lands, from wind in Wyoming to solar in Nevada.
End wasteful tax subsidies for oil and gas companies. Oil and gas companies have enjoyed billions in tax breaks for decades. Hillary would end those wasteful subsidies and invest in clean energy.
Cut methane emissions across the economy. Hillary would cut emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, by 40-45 percent and put in place strong standards for reducing leaks from both new and existing sources.
Revitalize coal communities.Building a 21st century clean energy economy will create new jobs and industries, protect public health, and reduce carbon pollution. But we cant ignore the impact this transition is already having on coal communities. Hillarys $30 billion plan to revitalize coal communities will ensure coal miners, power plant operators, transportation workers, and their families get the respect they deserve and the benefits they have earned; invest in economic diversification and job creation; and make coal communities an engine of US economic growth in the 21st century, as they have been for generations.
"In spite of the strongest possible scientific consensus about what climate change means for our environment, economy, health, and future, there are still some who deny the facts. Theyre intent on obstructing progress. We cant let them win this fight. We have no choice. There is no Planet B."
HILLARY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Making America the worlds clean energy superpower and meeting the climate challenge.
Hillary will:
Create good-paying jobs by making the United States the clean energy superpower of the 21st century.
Set national goals to have 500 million solar panels installed; generate enough renewable energy to power every home in America; cut energy waste in homes, schools, and hospitals by a third; and reduce American oil consumption by a third.
Lead the world in the fight against climate change by bringing greenhouse gas emissions to 30 percent below what they were in 2005 within the next decadeand keep going.
"I wont let anyone take us backward, deny our economy the benefits of harnessing a clean energy future, or force our children to endure the catastrophe that would result from unchecked climate change."
HILLARY, NOVEMBER 29, 2015
Climate change is an urgent threat and a defining challenge of our timeand Hillary Clinton has a plan to tackle it by making America the worlds clean energy superpower, taking bold steps to slash carbon pollution at home and around the world, and ensuring no Americans are left out or left behind as we rapidly build a clean energy economy.
2015 was the warmest year on recordand 15 of the 16 hottest years on record have come just since 2001. Already, American families are seeing the impacts of climate change with their own eyes, from the record drought in California to the frequently flooded streets of Miami and Annapolis. While climate deniers continue to ignore settled science because it does not suit their political agenda, and climate defeatists doubt Americas ability to meet this challenge, Hillary knows that America is fully up to the task.
Already, U.S. carbon pollution has been cut to its lowest level since 1995. Wind power has expanded three fold and solar power 30-fold since 2008. But thats not enough to tackle the climate challenge, meet Americas carbon pollution reduction goals, or to compete for the $13.5 trillion of global clean energy investment unlocked by the historic international climate change agreement reached in Paris. We can and must go further.
Thats why on day one, Hillary will set bold, national goals that will be achieved within ten years of her taking office:
Generate enough renewable energy to power every home in America, with half a billion solar panels installed by the end of Hillarys first term.
Cut energy waste in American homes, schools, hospitals and offices by a third and make American manufacturing the cleanest and most efficient in the world.
Reduce American oil consumption by a thirdthrough cleaner fuels and more efficient cars, boilers, ships and trucks.
Hillarys plan is designed to deliver on the pledge President Obama made at the Paris climate conference last Decemberwithout relying on climate deniers in Congress to pass new legislation. Her plan will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 30 percent in 2025 relative to 2005 levels and put the country on a path to cut emissions more than 80 percent by 2050.Her approach will catalyze new investment and economic opportunity across the country, create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, reduce energy bills and save families money, make our country more secure, and protect our families and communities from pollution.
As president, Hillary will:
Defend, implement, and extend smart pollution and efficiency standards, including the Clean Power Plan, which will prevent 3,600 premature deaths and 90,000 asthma attacks annually, and efficiency standards for cars, trucks and appliances that are already reducing energy costs for American households and businesses by over $75 billion per year.
Launch a $60 billion Clean Energy Challenge to partner with states, cities, and rural communities and give them the tools and resources they need to go beyond federal standards in cutting carbon pollution and expanding clean energy. The Clean Energy Challenge will also help ensure all Americans share in the benefits of a clean energy economy by encouraging solar and energy efficiency investments in low-income communities.
Invest in clean energy infrastructure, innovation, manufacturing and workforce development to make the U.S. economy more competitive and create good paying jobs and careers. Hillary has a comprehensive plan for making existing energy infrastructure cleaner and safer, unlocking new investment, and forging a climate compact with Canada and Mexico to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate clean energy deployment across the continent.
Ensure safe and responsible energy production. As we transition to a clean energy economy, we must ensure that the fossil fuel production taking place today is safe and responsible and that areas too sensitive for energy production are taken off the table. Hillary knows there are some places where we should keep fossil fuels in the ground or under the ocean.
The Arctic is a unique treasure. Given what we know, it's not worth the risk of drilling. -H
Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton)August 18, 2015
Reform leasing on public lands. As president, Hillary would reform fossil fuel leasing and significantly expand clean energy production on public lands, from wind in Wyoming to solar in Nevada.
End wasteful tax subsidies for oil and gas companies. Oil and gas companies have enjoyed billions in tax breaks for decades. Hillary would end those wasteful subsidies and invest in clean energy.
Cut methane emissions across the economy. Hillary would cut emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, by 40-45 percent and put in place strong standards for reducing leaks from both new and existing sources.
Revitalize coal communities.Building a 21st century clean energy economy will create new jobs and industries, protect public health, and reduce carbon pollution. But we cant ignore the impact this transition is already having on coal communities. Hillarys $30 billion plan to revitalize coal communities will ensure coal miners, power plant operators, transportation workers, and their families get the respect they deserve and the benefits they have earned; invest in economic diversification and job creation; and make coal communities an engine of US economic growth in the 21st century, as they have been for generations.
"In spite of the strongest possible scientific consensus about what climate change means for our environment, economy, health, and future, there are still some who deny the facts. Theyre intent on obstructing progress. We cant let them win this fight. We have no choice. There is no Planet B."
HILLARY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/climate/
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Hillary Clinton's Internet Supporters Desperately Want This Campaign to be about Sexism [View all]
Bubzer
Mar 2016
OP
The word desperate was part of a title, but I wont shy away from it. I will merely agree to disagree
Bubzer
Mar 2016
#82
Thanks for connecting the term with the act! I forgot all about that word: gaslighting.
Bubzer
Mar 2016
#6
That's a non-sequiter and very disingenuous. Phony accounts of sexism is itself sexism.
Bubzer
Mar 2016
#11
Yep. I wonder if the person I was responding thought it was low to complain about that?
kcr
Mar 2016
#62
Exactly right! The few who manage to get onto this site, dont stay long either... thank you MIRT!!!!
Bubzer
Mar 2016
#14
I remember a bunch of people here claiming an economic fix would be beat to preserve equal rights-
bettyellen
Mar 2016
#81
As an older female Bernie supporter myself, the media keeps forgetting the other point...
Bernieftw2016
Mar 2016
#27
They conveniently forget it, since it doesn't fit the preconceived narrative.
Betty Karlson
Mar 2016
#39
Not at all, just noticing an increasingly sexist tone here. Remember, it is possible to support
anotherproletariat
Mar 2016
#28
The American people were finally ready for a female president, but reject establishment candidates.
JFKDem62
Mar 2016
#31
Right. Because telling a woman to vaginally disembowel herself with a brick is not sexist.
SunSeeker
Mar 2016
#34
Correct - I've said "fuck him with a rusty fork" (or similar items) PLENTY of times about disgusting
kath
Mar 2016
#80
Hillary did not call for Gaddafi to die by bayonet. His own troops (rebels) stabbed and shot him.
SunSeeker
Mar 2016
#86
I entered the description of a BernieBro into my supercomputer and it spit out this image:
snort
Mar 2016
#37
That poster was protesting a DUer telling a woman to vaginally impale herself on a brick.
SunSeeker
Mar 2016
#49
Your silly graphic does not list her plans. Her plans are on hillaryclinton.com.
SunSeeker
Mar 2016
#57
go f yourself is not sexist. It is said by both sexes to both sexes. I'm not sure why that poster
liberal_at_heart
Mar 2016
#76
GG is a libertarian who cheered when the Ds lost the 2010 mid-terms. His view is that
struggle4progress
Mar 2016
#85
His "analysis" is not impartial: he intends it to have the consequences I indicated
struggle4progress
Mar 2016
#99
look, unless the fairness doctrine has been re instituted when I wasn't looking, no one's impartial
Bubzer
Mar 2016
#101
I have yet to meet anyone who says they're voting for Bernie because he has a penis.
Bubzer
Mar 2016
#107
Presidency is not the only election. Your claim is about gender and running for election.
Rilgin
Mar 2016
#118
So, the last person who should be pointing at women and claim they're sexist for that
kcr
Mar 2016
#111