Just In Time For The Holidays: My First Question For The Candidates

I'd consider my Christmas Wish fulfilled if any candidate honestly answered this (or any otner) question.

In a recent Hillary campaign ad the bitch claimed that she was going to create more jobs for Americans and then in the very next breath said something about taking tax breaks away from big business.

So Hillary is going to create jobs by making it harder and less desireable for companies to do business in this nation?

Seems like a plan to me.

Dana B. - BIG business doesn't need tax breaks.

Small businesses may need them in order to compete fairly with big business, but big business does not need them. Giving tax breaks to BIG businesses only benefits the business and the politician who has been campaign funded to put the tax breaks in place.

Why throw and sling mud and call names; it isn't neccessary.

I am looking at the present canidates and am having a hard time thinking any of them have answers.

My interests are health care that is workable and gives fair beneifits to everyone with being treated like cattle, and the budget.

Blessings

My answer to the question of how to help local economies is to come up with local currencies.

We are working on that in Portland.

The group I am working with proposes to call our currency Community Credits. I am lobbying the group to have defined tasks for under and un-employed people so they can do particular tasks and enter this system with credits.

The plan is to have a card that is like a food-stamp card or a debit card. We hope to find a local bank who will issue and track the cards and the credits (CC's).

We will then recruit local businesses who will agree to take CC's.

Ithaca, New York, has a local currency that has operated for a long time. Hood River, Oregon, has a RiverDollars program.

Even though it is December, I have more rainbow kale growing than I can use. I could trade it in my group for something else. Already I have traded art supplies for lunch. I never used the art supplies, and I enjoyed the lunch.

As for health care, what passes for that, often isn't good care at all. We need to audit the present system for abuse before we put any more resources into it. It is a mess, with lawsuits concerning side effects and over-medication now proliferating.

If a person is bleeding and needs sewing, that's one thing. Long-term use of pharmaceutical products is another thing altogether.

If hospitals could be turned into coffee-tea-information gyms with sauna-massage acupuncture for reasonable fees or where you could work-trade for such things, then I, for one, would not see them as such scary places.

Ah well, is the New Year a time to dream?

dropping by now and then
to see my dear friends again
and to leave a ten
Everywhere I've been!
Thanks for sharing

So far, I have been very disappointed with the canidates. They seem to change their minds and views far too quickly