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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe Trump-Clinton divide on little people. (according to a business columnist)
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/nation-now/2016/08/12/trump-clinton-economic-plans-little-people-detroit-column/88613520/All it takes, he seemed to say, are a few of these big broad strokes and all will be well. Or as Trump himself put it, "I want to jump-start America and it won't even be that hard."
By contrast, Democratic nominee Hillary Clintons plan outlined Thursday in nearby Warren seems to accept that, yes, it will be hard. Therefore she attacks the problems at ground level down where entrepreneurs need working capital and commuters need reliable public transit and school kids need high-speed broadband.
Trumps plan, with its emphasis on tax cuts and getting those intrusive government regulators off our backs, comes from somewhere high atop one of Trumps skyscrapers. Its a view from the boardroom, from a place where the big deals are done and the little people remain out of sight.
But Clintons plan seemed to acknowledge each and every one of those little people. She hopes to counsel first-time homeowners on handling debt. She wants to put at-risk youths to work, and to help returning offenders find jobs, and to bankroll entrepreneurs with their dreams. Her plan has a granular quality; on public transit, for example, she focuses down to the level of bike and pedestrian lanes needed in cities.
Theres an old saying that nothing works but that everything might: that no one silver-bullet solution will turn things around but that if we try 100 different things and each one moves the needle just a bit, then we might make real progress. That seems to be Clintons approach.
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The Trump-Clinton divide on little people. (according to a business columnist) (Original Post)
pnwmom
Aug 2016
OP
tblue37
(65,340 posts)1. K&R. nt
Mass
(27,315 posts)2. "little people"?
Happy he likes the detail of the Clinton's plan, but frankly, the elitism in this piece stinks.
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)3. The writer talks of Trump being high in a skyscraper, looking down on the little people.
That's how they appear from the top of the Trump Tower.
But Hillary is down there on the ground, one of the little people. They don't look little to her -- and they have big problems.
The elitism you object to is the elitism of Trump, and those who support him.
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)4. I thought this would be an article about midget voters...
Sorry in advance to anyone finds that term offensive.