After 39 toy recalls this year, Hillary Clinton posted a press release about how she will keep American children from getting dangerous toys when she is president. All of these toys were imported from China, who produces most of the world's toys and about 80% of the toys in the United States alone. Clinton also tried putting some of the blame on President Bush, jabbing at his nominees for the Chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Call me crazy, but I never blamed Bush for bringing defective toys into the country, unlike the manipulative Clinton campaign.
This statement from the Clinton camp sounds like another major inflation of bureaucracy and taxes. Which once again makes me wonder how she is going to relieve the middle class of our great tax-burden. Yes, taxes will go up for us too, not just the wealthy. If elected President, Hillary has pledged to double the CPSC's budget, as well as additional expenditures to "overhaul" their testing facility. How often has injecting a government agency with steroids ever increased efficiency?
There should be further precautions preventing importation of dangerous and/or deadly toys, but perhaps we should start by re-examining our trade relations with China, since they have sent us harmful toys, children's products, poisoned toothpaste and pet food. Before pumping more money at the problem, let's stop it at the source or cut the defective source off altogether.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Hillary's Rebuild America Plan
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton takes another cheap shot at gaining support by playing on people's fears after the Minnesota bridge collapse. Clinton blames the tragedies of Hurricane Katrina and the Minnesota bridge collapse on our "underinvestment" in America. Meaning, we clearly don't pay enough taxes.
Hillary has jumped on this tragic opportunity to make people think that she is the only candidate that cares. In her "Rebuild America Plan" she pledges billions of dollars to improve public transit, intercity passenger rail, seaports, congestion and traffic growth, and broadband. Most of these issues are that of state and local governments, which she is planning to squeeze out by increasing "federal investment in public transit." This is yet another example of Hillary trying to pull our country from its founding principles of limited central government and state's responsibility.
This plan stresses an underinvestment in public transit, which she will solve by increasing federal investment by $1.5 billion per year. When I was going to school in Seattle, I had to pay for a bus pass, actually my parents had to pay for my bus pass. Why should we have to give more tax dollars to pay for people, who are already paying their own fee, to ride the bus or train when we may never ride it ourselves?
Hillary's Rebuild America Plan is also geared toward decreasing mythical global warming. Currently about 5% of Americans commute by public transit, but she figures doubling this amount will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 25%. But the only way Hillary could sweeten the public transit pot for people like me is to increase gas taxes even more, which she is working on. Even then, I would still drive. I will not be riding public transit with a fussing ten month old and a very energetic three year old. Its just not going to happen.
The disasters that happen on public thoroughfares are truly saddening, but if they are state and local governments' responsibility, then they need to find the solution -- not the federal government. And no, the bridge in Minnesota did not collapse because of Bush's war in Iraq.
There will always be people like me who cannot or will not use public transportation, so why should we have to pay even more for something we may never use?
Hillary has jumped on this tragic opportunity to make people think that she is the only candidate that cares. In her "Rebuild America Plan" she pledges billions of dollars to improve public transit, intercity passenger rail, seaports, congestion and traffic growth, and broadband. Most of these issues are that of state and local governments, which she is planning to squeeze out by increasing "federal investment in public transit." This is yet another example of Hillary trying to pull our country from its founding principles of limited central government and state's responsibility.
This plan stresses an underinvestment in public transit, which she will solve by increasing federal investment by $1.5 billion per year. When I was going to school in Seattle, I had to pay for a bus pass, actually my parents had to pay for my bus pass. Why should we have to give more tax dollars to pay for people, who are already paying their own fee, to ride the bus or train when we may never ride it ourselves?
Hillary's Rebuild America Plan is also geared toward decreasing mythical global warming. Currently about 5% of Americans commute by public transit, but she figures doubling this amount will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 25%. But the only way Hillary could sweeten the public transit pot for people like me is to increase gas taxes even more, which she is working on. Even then, I would still drive. I will not be riding public transit with a fussing ten month old and a very energetic three year old. Its just not going to happen.
The disasters that happen on public thoroughfares are truly saddening, but if they are state and local governments' responsibility, then they need to find the solution -- not the federal government. And no, the bridge in Minnesota did not collapse because of Bush's war in Iraq.
There will always be people like me who cannot or will not use public transportation, so why should we have to pay even more for something we may never use?
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