“One: At a time of massive income and
wealth inequality, we must not elect a president who wants to resurrect the
failed trickle-down economics of the past. When the very rich are becoming much
richer and there has been a 10-fold increase in the number of billionaires
since the year 2000, it is economic insanity to propose, as Trump has, hundreds
of billions in tax breaks to the top 1 percent. His proposal to scrap the
estate tax would provide a $53 billion tax break to the wealthiest family in
America, the Waltons of Wal-Mart. And guess who else would benefit? Trump’s
proposal would provide a $4 billion tax break to Trump’s own family.
“While
millions of Americans work longer hours for lower wages, it is beyond belief
that any serious candidate for president would support huge tax breaks for the
top 1 percent while, at the same time, propose cutting services to millions of
families in need. As part of Trump’s trickle-down economics, he would throw 20
million Americans off of health insurance by repealing the Affordable Care Act.
He also has proposed large cuts in education, housing, childcare, veterans’
medical care and other domestic initiatives.
“Donald
Trump talks a great deal about our trade policies and the outsourcing of
American jobs. Yet, his very own clothing line is manufactured in Bangladesh,
Mexico and China. How can Donald Trump, with a straight face, object to
corporate outsourcing while his own company exploits some of the lowest-paid
labor on earth to make his ties, shirts and other products?
“I also find
it strange that someone who professes to be concerned about American workers
packed his economic advisory council with billionaire hedge fund managers and
Wall Street bank executives. His idea for Treasury secretary is Carl Icahn, who
is infamous for hostile takeovers of distressed businesses, laying off workers
and eliminating health insurance and retirement benefits. This is not a candidate
who will represent the needs of American workers.
“Unlike
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton supports raising the minimum wage to a living
wage and pay equity for women. She has a very specific plan to rebuild our
crumbling infrastructure and create millions of decent paying jobs. She will
also join me in making public colleges and universities tuition free for all
families in America with incomes of less than $125,000 a year — 83 percent of our population.
“Two: Climate change is real, it is
caused by human activity and it is already creating devastating problems in our
country and around the world. Unbelievably, despite the virtually-unanimous
consensus of the scientific community that climate change is the greatest
environmental crisis our planet faces, Donald Trump believes that climate
change is a ‘hoax’ perpetrated by China.
“The
scientists tell us that we have got to move aggressively in transforming our
energy system away from fossil fuel and into energy efficiency and sustainable
energy. Trump’s view is just the opposite. He believes that we should expand
fossil fuel production. If we want to effectively combat climate change,
aggressively expand the production of sustainable energy and break our
dependence on fossil fuels, we must elect Hillary Clinton.
“Three: Our nation has struggled for
centuries to combat racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. Sadly,
Trump has made bigotry the cornerstone of his campaign. We simply cannot, in
the year 2016, turn back the clock by electing a president whose ‘birther’
conspiracy was a racist attack on the legitimacy of our first African-American
president, whose anti-immigrant rants have slurred Mexicans as ‘rapists’ and ‘criminals’
and who would ban Muslims from entering the country. Trump has been called ‘a
race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.’ That’s not me talking. That’s
Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican.
“Further, we
do not need a president who continuously insults women, has called them ‘pigs,’
‘dogs’ and ‘slobs’ and seems obsessed about women’s weight. The job of the next
president is to bring us together, combat sexism and racism and not divide us
up.
“Four: Almost every objective observer
has concluded that Donald Trump has taken lies and distortions to a whole new
level. I don’t often quote Mitt Romney, but the former Republican presidential
candidate was right when he called Trump a ‘fraud’ and a ‘phony.’
“Major
publications like The
New York Times,
The Washington Post
and others have noted that Trump doesn’t seem to understand the difference
between truth and lies. PolitiFact
awarded ‘the many campaign misstatements of Donald Trump’ as its ‘Lie
of the Year’ in 2015. The Pulitzer Prize winning website checked out 77
statements and rated more than three-quarters of them Mostly
False, False
or Pants
on Fire. ‘No other politician has as many statements rated so far down on
the dial,’ PolitiFact concluded.
The New Hampshire Union
Leader has called Trump ‘a liar, a bully, a buffoon.’ That’s coming
from a conservative newspaper that for the first time in more than a century
couldn’t bring itself to endorse the Republican presidential nominee.
“For those
reasons and many more, Donald Trump must not become the next president of the
United States. On November 8, the choice is clear. Hillary Clinton for
president.”
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