2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Why--Hillary in 2016 [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... or "free trade" bills such as the TPP, etc. The Koch brothers have paid off the Clintons through their contributions to the Clinton's DLC to do their bidding before on things like NAFTA that Bill put in place with other corporatists before that DESTROYED American middle class jobs the last few decades. Ross Perot warned us then about these corporate shenanigans, and even Lou Dobbs has been right about warning us on Hillary's stance on indentured servant programs like H-1B that along with overpriced college education, is driving pragmatic smart kids away from high tech careers and more to others such as health care, finance, law and others that are more likely to have domestic jobs. It is not the BS that kids are driven away from the challenge of a high tech education/career. When I entered the workforce during the early days of Silicon Valley, many American kids like me were drawn to this field, and companies like Sun and HP had reputations for not laying off anyone, and hired domestically very well. Now the world capital for high tech has moved from Silicon Valley to Bangalore the last decade and there's a reason for that. Washington is serving those wanting to make money at the top of these industries, not those of us who actually do the work and come up with the technologies that allows them to automate more of the work around the country, that provides a hell of a lot more of the "value" of the work output than the execs and high level managers that take all of the rewards that the corporatists in Washington serve.
We need someone with an agenda that serves the rest of us and not the Kochs NOW! Climate change won't wait for two more elections for us to get our leadership right here. We need to get this to happen in 2016. Elizabeth Warren is in the best position to provide that for us AND serve the interests of women as well!