I saw a FACEBOOK post from "the other side," purporting "facts" concerning the 2020 election. For starters, it seems that again folks are still lamenting the 2016 election. I am no fan of the seemingly incessant Tweets, but the media only posts negative information. So, here are some positives for consideration. As I discover more, I will add.
My intent here is to "satisfy" my desire for political commentary without posting on FACEBOOK and other locations where I might cause others to stumble and also increase my blood pressure, due to the consistent lack of facts, but high emotion some people provide.
So here it goes:
1. You're not just
voting for President.
2. You're voting for
who replaces RBG on the Supreme Court.
3. You're voting to
end the impeachment madness and inform Congress they need to do their jobs
4. You're voting for
federal judges.
5. You're voting for
the rule of law.
6. You're voting for
the word "legal." It should
not be a difficult concept.
7. You're voting for
people who didn't become millionaires when they were supposed to be serving.
8. You're voting for
American small businesses who can now prosper due to reduced regulations.
9. You're voting for
Red lines that mean Red lines and not avenues to surreptitiously funnel
millions to our enemy.
- You are voting against the
murder of unborn children:
- Such as the Preventing
Maternal Deaths Act that provides funding for states to develop maternal
mortality review committees to better understand maternal complications
and identify solutions & largely focuses on reducing the higher
mortality rates for Black Americans
11. You're voting
for not interfering with other nation's elections, like we did to Israel
several years ago.
12. You're voting
for America to continue being the largest producer of crude oil and a net
natural gas exporter.
13. You're voting
for Christians to not be oppressed/punished/discriminated against.
14. You're voting
for “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” (FOSTA),
which includes the “Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act” (SESTA) which both give
law enforcement and victims new tools to fight sex trafficking:
- Such as dismantling an
organization that was the internet’s leading source of
prostitution-related advertisements resulting in sex trafficking.
- Immigration and Customs
Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations arrested 1,588 criminals
associated with Human Trafficking
15. You're voting
for airports to provide spaces for breastfeeding Moms.
16. You're voting
for veterans to get the care they deserve:
- Such as requiring the
Secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs to submit
a joint plan to provide veterans access to access to mental health
treatment as they transition to civilian life
- VA Choice Act and VA
Accountability Act, which expanded VA telehealth services,
walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
17. You're voting
for better healthcare:
- Americans can comparison shop
because healthcare providers must now disclose the cost of their services
so that Americans can comparison shop and know how much less providers
charge insurance companies;
- Americans should never be
blindsided by bills for medical services they never agreed to in advance;
- Hospitals are required to
post their standard charges for services, which include gross charges, the
negotiated rates with insurers and the discounted price a hospital is
willing to accept from a patient;
- Allowing some drug imports
from Canada, so that prescription prices would go down;
- Allowing up to 12 weeks of
paid parental leave for millions of federal workers;
- Right-To-Try legislation
which allows terminally ill patients to try any experimental treatment
that wasn’t allowed before;
- Legislation to advance
childhood cancer research and improve treatments;
- Autism Collaboration,
Accountability, Research, Education and Support Act (CARES) signed into
law which allocates $1.8 billion in funding over the next five years to
help people with autism spectrum disorder and to help their families
18. You're voting
for prison reform through activities such as the First Step Act and Second
Chance hiring:
- First Step Act, a criminal
justice bill which enacted reforms that make our justice system fairer and
helps former inmates successfully return to society;
- Addressing inequities in
sentencing laws that disproportionately harmed Black Americans and
reformed mandatory minimums that created unfair outcomes;
- Creating rehabilitative
programs to inmates, helping them successfully rejoin society and not
return to crime;
- Second chance hiring, which
gives former inmates the opportunity to live crime-free lives and find
meaningful employment;
- “Ready to Work Initiative”
which helps connect employers directly with former prisoners.
19. You're voting
for increased funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
by more than 14%.
20. You're voting
for wilderness protection & conservation:
- Created five national
monuments, expands several national parks, adds 1.3 million acres of
wilderness, and permanently reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation
Fund
- Commissioned more than $124
Million to help rebuild rural water infrastructure
21. You're voting
for cleaning our oceans via the Save our Seas Act which funds $10 million per
year to clean tons of plastic & garbage from the ocean.
22. You're voting
for a continued drop in the US poverty rate, which thus far has fallen to a
17-year low of 11.8%.
- You're voting for Increase in
school choice funding by $42 million thus far; also increasing
apprenticeship opportunities for students and workers.
- You're voting for ISIS
containment now that the caliphate property has been reduced to nearly
zero.
- You're voting for freed
Hostages
- You're voting for Creation of
"Opportunity Zones":
- Opportunity Zone Incentives
promote investment in 8,764 low-income communities across the country
(expected to spur $100 billion in long term private capital investment in
economically distressed communities).
- You're voting for continued
drop in unemployment rates across all demographics.
- Welfare reform - Requiring
able-bodied adults who don’t have children to work or look for work if
they’re on welfare.
- You're are voting for our
allies to contribute more for global defense and not rely as heavily on
the US, thus putting more dollars to work for the US back home.
No human is perfect.
One more time…no human is perfect, so "purity tests" will not work.
Examine the policies of all who would like your vote in their native form, not
as "pseudo academics," "biased media," "entertainment
industry," and others would have you understand. Examine policies
accomplished and policies promised.
