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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Where does Hillary stand on fracking these days [View all]NYC Liberal
(20,135 posts)10. Here you go:
Fracking
Keystone Pipeline
Minimum wage
Fixing our crumbling infrastructure
Expanding solar and wind
Expand Social Security
She opposes fracking in states and communities that don't want it, and she supports New York's ban on fracking.
Keystone Pipeline
I oppose it because I don't think it's in the best interest of what we need to do to combat climate change.
Minimum wage
She has supported raising the federal minimum wage to $12, and believes that we should go further than the federal minimum through state and local efforts, and workers organizing and bargaining for higher wages, such as the Fight for 15 and recent efforts in Los Angeles and New York to raise their minimum wage to $15.
Fixing our crumbling infrastructure
Boost federal infrastructure investment by $275 billion over the next five years. Under Hillarys plan, $250 billion would go directly to public infrastructure investment.
Create a $25 billion national infrastructure bank. Hillary will allocate an additional $25 billion over five years to create an independent, government-owned infrastructure bank that will support critical infrastructure improvements. The bank will provide loans and other federal support for investments in energy, water, broadband, transportation, and multi-modal infrastructure projects.
Reauthorize a Build America Bonds program to help finance the rebuilding of Americas infrastructure. Hillary would re-authorize President Obamas highly successful Build America Bonds (BABs) program to stimulate billions of additional dollars in infrastructure investments.
Fix and expand our roads and bridges, reducing congestion and cutting the pothole tax. Hillary will make smart, targeted investments to repair Americas roads and bridges, increase capacity, improve road quality, and reduce congestionsaving wasted time and money for drivers across the country. Clinton will also make key transportation investments to help farmers and manufacturers reach their customers and suppliers more efficiently.
Expand public transit options to lower transportation costs and unlock economic opportunity. Hillary will increase investments in public transit to connect Americans to jobs, spur economic growth, and improve quality of life in our communities. She will also encourage local governments to work with low-income communities to ensure the unemployed and underemployed are connected to the jobs they need.
Connect all Americans to the digital economy with 21st-century internet access. Hillary believes that high-speed internet access is not a luxury; it is a necessity for equal opportunity and social mobility in a 21st-century economy. She will finish the job of connecting Americas households to the internet with a commitment that by 2020, 100 percent of households in America will have access to affordable broadband. She will also invest new resources in bringing free Wi-Fi to public buildings and public transportation.
Accelerate aviation technology and invest in American airports. Hillary will invest in building world-class American airports and get the Federal Aviation Administration's NextGen program back on track to modernize our national airspace system. These changes will reduce carbon emissions and save travelers and airlines an estimated $100 billion in avoided delays over the next 15 years.
Build a faster, safer, and higher-capacity passenger rail system. Hillary will invest in a world-leading passenger rail system to meet rapidly growing demand and build a more mobile America.
Build energy infrastructure for the 21st century. Hillarys plan will unlock Americas clean energy potential by modernizing infrastructure like dams, levees, and wastewater systemssaving billions of gallons in clean drinking water and generating clean energy.
Create a $25 billion national infrastructure bank. Hillary will allocate an additional $25 billion over five years to create an independent, government-owned infrastructure bank that will support critical infrastructure improvements. The bank will provide loans and other federal support for investments in energy, water, broadband, transportation, and multi-modal infrastructure projects.
Reauthorize a Build America Bonds program to help finance the rebuilding of Americas infrastructure. Hillary would re-authorize President Obamas highly successful Build America Bonds (BABs) program to stimulate billions of additional dollars in infrastructure investments.
Fix and expand our roads and bridges, reducing congestion and cutting the pothole tax. Hillary will make smart, targeted investments to repair Americas roads and bridges, increase capacity, improve road quality, and reduce congestionsaving wasted time and money for drivers across the country. Clinton will also make key transportation investments to help farmers and manufacturers reach their customers and suppliers more efficiently.
Expand public transit options to lower transportation costs and unlock economic opportunity. Hillary will increase investments in public transit to connect Americans to jobs, spur economic growth, and improve quality of life in our communities. She will also encourage local governments to work with low-income communities to ensure the unemployed and underemployed are connected to the jobs they need.
Connect all Americans to the digital economy with 21st-century internet access. Hillary believes that high-speed internet access is not a luxury; it is a necessity for equal opportunity and social mobility in a 21st-century economy. She will finish the job of connecting Americas households to the internet with a commitment that by 2020, 100 percent of households in America will have access to affordable broadband. She will also invest new resources in bringing free Wi-Fi to public buildings and public transportation.
Accelerate aviation technology and invest in American airports. Hillary will invest in building world-class American airports and get the Federal Aviation Administration's NextGen program back on track to modernize our national airspace system. These changes will reduce carbon emissions and save travelers and airlines an estimated $100 billion in avoided delays over the next 15 years.
Build a faster, safer, and higher-capacity passenger rail system. Hillary will invest in a world-leading passenger rail system to meet rapidly growing demand and build a more mobile America.
Build energy infrastructure for the 21st century. Hillarys plan will unlock Americas clean energy potential by modernizing infrastructure like dams, levees, and wastewater systemssaving billions of gallons in clean drinking water and generating clean energy.
Expanding solar and wind
Expand the amount of installed solar capacity to 140 gigawatts by the end of 2020, a 700% increase from current levels. That is the equivalent of having rooftop solar systems on over 25 million homes.
Add more power generation capacity to the grid than during any decade in American history, from a combination of wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, and other forms of renewable electricity.
Add more power generation capacity to the grid than during any decade in American history, from a combination of wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, and other forms of renewable electricity.
Expand Social Security
Fight any attempts to gamble seniors retirement security on the stock market through privatization.
Oppose reducing annual cost-of-living adjustments.
Oppose Republican efforts to raise the retirement agean unfair idea that will particularly hurt the seniors who have worked the hardest throughout their lives.
Oppose closing the long-term shortfall on the backs of the middle class, whether through benefit cuts or tax increases.
Oppose reducing annual cost-of-living adjustments.
Oppose Republican efforts to raise the retirement agean unfair idea that will particularly hurt the seniors who have worked the hardest throughout their lives.
Oppose closing the long-term shortfall on the backs of the middle class, whether through benefit cuts or tax increases.
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May I please ask how your post fulfills the mission Skinner has established for our board?
DemocratSinceBirth
Jun 2016
#60
Raising the cap or better yet removing the cap is a solution. It will definitely require Congress
still_one
Jun 2016
#9
The Party Platform is like Miss Congeniality. it will get written, looked at, then tucked away
leftofcool
Jun 2016
#15
I expect it to be similar to 2008 although I think Obama will announce for Hillary
leftofcool
Jun 2016
#19
sure.. because there's ZERO similarity between '08 and this cycle...
HumanityExperiment
Jun 2016
#20
May I please ask how your post fulfills the mission Skinner has established for our board?
DemocratSinceBirth
Jun 2016
#37
I don't think the issues that caused a significant share of people to vote for Bernie.....
Armstead
Jun 2016
#69
hoping isnt a part of this. There is no doubt both conventions have an insurgency
swhisper1
Jun 2016
#77
I am glad you have come to my way of thinking that we need a united convention.
DemocratSinceBirth
Jun 2016
#93
I was involved in writing the platform for the CT State Convention in 2010....
George II
Jun 2016
#28
“A Democratic platform that is not robust in aggressively addressing climate change ends up being,
TwilightZone
Jun 2016
#46
"I do not think there will be many places in America where fracking will continue to take place..."
LanternWaste
Jun 2016
#45