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Garrett78

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3. Seriously, though...
Sun Dec 4, 2016, 09:50 PM
Dec 2016

The US needs to invest in new high-tech "green" industries. Because things like infrastructure development can no longer be considered a jobs program like it was in the New Deal days. Road work that once required hundreds can now be done by 1 person with a big piece of equipment.

New high tech green industry development, more progressive taxation, limiting wage disparity, addressing (not denying) anthropogenic global warming, universal health insurance, affordable college, alternatives to college and other German-esque proposals run completely counter to what Trump proposes but are fairly in sync with what Clinton and other Dems propose. Suggesting that Germany's ability to thrive somehow relates to what Trump campaigned on and why he did better than expected in the Rust Belt is both ironic and laughable. Pointing to Germany, in other words, makes Clinton's point. It most certainly doesn't make Trump's point.

Lastly, there's probably more resistance to re-locating (following re-training) in the US than there is in Germany due to differences in size, diversity, etc.

People may want simple answers to complex problems, and I have no doubt that simple answers appeal to the likes of those who vote for the likes of Trump. But lying and dumbing down the population is anti-democratic.

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