The Truth Revealed

It shall be: An oligarchy controlled by the Establishment.

I want to make it known that my vote goes to the Libertarian candidate today, election day, 2016. Queued this Election Day 2012 so my vote could be counted.

Me: How about a choice that reduces militarism, rather than a choice that continues our current level or one that increases it?

But I do not think: We will get that from either Trump or Clinton, nor from their campaigns and the people each one's campaign relies on.

In an interview with Katie Couric, Gary Johnson argued that abolishing the federal student loan program would lower the demand for college and thus lower the tuition. This is one thing that I simply cannot agree with Johnson on. We cannot simply abolish the federal student loan program. What we can do is reduce the size of the program in order to save money and better serve those who really need it and deserve it. Right now, FAFSA is available to any student who maintains a 2.0 GPA or higher. Why is it that we are rewarding students who are barely passing with loans that will likely leave them in a debt they cannot pay off and will simply end up being passed on to the taxpayers? What incentive is there for students to do well and learn the things that will help them in the workforce if they can get their financial aid by barely passing? Another thing to limit the cost of FAFSA and the amount of debt students get into is that these loans should only be usable at public universities (like the SUNY system) or, for those attending private universities, for an amount of tuition up to the median public university tuition in the student's state of residence. By limiting federal loans as such, private universities will have to either limit their tuition costs or allow for more scholarship rewards, or they will lose out on a large portion of their student population who use FAFSA. This would help control not only the amount of debt students incur, but also the cost to taxpayers of defaulted student loans, while also encouraging private universities to lower their tuitions and/or become more competitive in their own private financial aid systems in order to remain competitive. But Johnson's proposal to completely scrap federal student loans is too extreme and would leave students of low income families at a serious disadvantage. We cannot go to the extreme of giving everyone free college as some Progressives suggest, but we also cannot go to the extreme of completely getting rid of the current program.

You can: claim you wouldn't have made those mistakes, nor would you make similar mistakes, if you have consistently opposed them through an advancement of principled policies. #JohnsonOpposedBothIraqAndLibya

(1) It was a Democrat advocacy group, not Clinton’s campaign itself, that was allegedly involved, though the individual mostly accused (Mr. Creamer) did have some involvement in the Clinton campaign, but has already stepped down after the videos were released. (2) The two individuals who share the brunt of the accusations in these videos are Mr. Creamer, who like I said has already stepped down, and a contractor who had been fired a while ago. (3) DNC officials and the like have denounced what the video captures as not being the way their rallies have been or ought to be organized. (At least, they have not officially been organized this way.) (4) Those involved claim that the conversations were just hypothetical conversations, and that the schemes were never carried out. However, in reading what the schemes actually were, if they didn’t carry them out it seems people did it on their own anyway. It does not seem that they discussed going out and violently attacking Trump supporters, but rather that they suggested ways to incite the more hot headed Trump supporters to act violently by wearing Planned Parenthood shirts, accusing Trump of being a Nazi, and more. In many cases, Democrat protesters did rally in a way that caused Trump supporters to lash out against them. (5) On the guy who put together the undercover videos, a certain Mr. O'Keefe: “In the past, O'Keefe and his Project Veritas Action have been criticized for strategically editing footage to create false accusations about people or groups.”

The only candidate serious about tackling the debt crisis is not up there.

What I would really like: For another choice to actually be given a chance.

I hate to disagree with you on this, but $250,00 is too low of a cutoff, Hillary... In the current modern age, we need to be lowering taxes on everyone making under $1 million a year, as these are the ones using the greatest portion of their income to stimulate the economy. But, she is right, we do need to shift the burden to the multimillionaires and billionaires. We ought to raise their taxes AND create a minimum effective tax on income in the millions. BUT the cutoff needs to be $1 million, not $250,000.