I have had a hard time finding a reason to support Trump, but I cannot vote for Clinton. She has turned her public service into a cash machine for her personal enrichment. No speech is worth $500,000.00 - none, especially when it comes from the very institutions she claims to disdain. After leaving the Whitehouse "broke" and having trouble paying her multiple "mortgages" [while I lost my house], she joined the ranks of the 0.5%. The lower middle class is defined as those making less than $100,00.00 a year. You didn't know you were in the lower classes, did you? And Hillary - nearly $1,000,000 in net worth only 3 years after leaving office? How has your income fared in the last 3 years?
If Trump joins the House Republicans in their "Better Way Agenda", then I will support him. The Better Way addresses lifting American's out of poverty and is aimed at supporting small businesses while reigning in special interest loopholes that help big corporations and the wealthy. This is something Democrats have used as talking points while increasing the wellfare state. Bill Clinton did it when he cooperated with the Republican legislature and Obama has undone this great bipartison effort.
Hillary was by his side the entire way, especially during the first term of his presidency when he completely controlled both houses, the Senate and the House and pushed partisan healthcare while ignoring the Middle East, Homeland Security and Immigration - all of which he has opined about and has done nothing about but create illegal Executive Decisions struck down by the court. At least the judiciary respects the Constitution and its delineation of 3 co-equal branches of government.
Please read Ryan's "Better Way" agenda which addresses poverty, tax reform, national security, healthcare, cutting regulations and restoring constitutional authority. It's not an exciting read, but it could give Trump the detail and substance his campaign has so far lacked and if politicians would do what's right for the American People and not their careers, they should support it, too.
Hillary has bragged of her achievements in healthcare reform while First Lady! Since when was the First Lady an elected position? She never references her time as Secretary of State or her record as the Senator from New York while campaigning to be the one who selects the next Secretary of State.
I, like you, have my reservations about Trump, but staying home or not voting is an abnegation of your responsibility in a citizen state. At least make your decisions on fact and not feeling. This has been a completely emotionally driven presidential cycle so far and it is hard to tell what Trump may do, but we know what Clinton would do. Listen to the substance of her speeches - increasing the scope of social security? She said the other day I will "increase wages to increase spending to increase wages". What the hell does that even mean.
Public service is not meant to be a pathway to personal enrichment or a position of personal power to independently decide how we live our lives. We should ask ourselves why America's brightest and most accomplished citizens don't run for office. Trump is accomplished, though I would question his brightness, but he is not a Politician for Profit. He doesn't need it. He's already rich, maybe not as rich as he says, but clearly rich enough that he doesn't need a position of power to line his pockets like Hilary Clinton has done.When asked if she's always told the truth, she claims "I've always tried to." What does that mean. So, in a discordian challenge, "Mrs. Clinton, will you stop enriching yourself through political power if elected president?"
Okay, so I'm a little worked up - but I want to learn what the real issues are. How you vote will affect the supreme court, which has, for all you doubters out there, upheld marriage for all, abortion as a woman's right to decide and chided Obama on his Executive Decsions. As a point of fact, the Constitution does not specify the number of Judges sitting on the Supreme Court. There have been decades when there was an even number of judges on the court allowing split decisions to uphold the decisions of the lower federal courts and the country did just fine.
