Chelsea's IUS visit
so i'm setting here listening to chelsea clinton. she seems very timid, quiet.
education affordability
education affordability
- pell grants max. upped
- expand eligibility
- higher tax credit
- extend to grad school
- direct student lending from the gov't
- with rate caps less than 3.5%
- getting rid of fasfa form
- check box on tax form at tax time
- expanding of americore
- also extending amount to 10,000$ a year
- max 20.000$ for 2 years service
- possibility of paying off loans thru working
- if you're in debt after 20 years you're forgiven
- changing the estate tax
- repeal for less than 7M$ assets
questions
addressing rising costs of education (q)
should be contract between freshmen and univeristies so that their tution doesn't increase while they are in school (a)
reason is because of cuts to research funding which is driving up costs of tuition to compensate
no child left behind (q)
getting rid of "no child left behind"
aspirational funding instead of lowering standards for the next year
changing funding
public education has to start earlier
more aggressive earlier childhood education
at three years old
major gap when kids walk into first grade
helping parents be better teachers to their children
having pre kindergarten at 4years old nationwide
closing the technology divide
greater funding for teachers who work in inner city, and other
going back to 1990's tax brackets
higher taxes for 250k$ + a year
Health care (q)
universal health care
congressional health care plan
gov't health care plan
no one can be denied coverage due to pre-existing condition
included dental and mental health care
military service [withdrawal plans and what will be done to care for them when they return] (q)
current administration has no plans to end the war
bush could see the troops being in iraq for 10 or more years
bush has plans to bind hand of successor to make it impossible to withdraw
has been pushed to set up refugee status by hillary for Iraqi's siding with the us
had been denied for years
has been writing to iran and syria to help set up a stable iraqi gov't
set up separate and free palestinian and Israeli states
micro finance and credit programs to help
eliminating school fees around the world
support for active and retired military service members
better VA system
more research for tramatic brain injury research
adult equivilent of shaken baby syndrome
mandatory health care for reserve and guard
low interest rate for veterans for buy homes/ start small business
Vietnam recognition
extending g.i. bill of rights to veteran
urban agenda and plans for working with cities (q)
invest aggressively in infrastructure reconstruction/renovation
10B$ plan to rebuild
removing burden from cities for this
funding for police
more police
community block grant program
fully funding
targeted conversations with mayors and gov't
social security(q)
if we get back to fiscal responsibility with the next administration we will be ok
if we have 4 more years like the current administration we will be so far that a bailout will to far gone
american retirement savings account
like a 401(k)
no privatization of social security
out sourcing (q)
close tax loopholes for companies taking jobs overseas
double r&d tax credit for companies that do reasearch on us soil
inclusion for companies that add jobs off of there developments
funding for more green friendly energy
disability funding(q)
commited to payin fair share for education of children with mental and physical disabilities
and that was it in a nut shell; condensed version of course
i'll get around to cleaning this up a bit more, but i'm tired