Monday, November 2, 2015
To Green or Not To Green- Ava B.
Hillary Clinton has big plans in mind if she is to become President of the United States when it comes to changing our energy infrastructure: make acquisition of energy more "safe, reliable, and affordable" (hillaryclinton.com) while also having that energy's quality gradually become completely clean all across North America. Some ways to do so include repairing or replacing old pipelines to reduce methane leakage, improving pipeline regulations, making pacts to cut carbon pollution, and limiting the amount of exhaust and chemicals that cars and other vehicles can be produced to release. By reducing tax loopholes and establishing a National Infrastructure Bank. and using that money to reward grants to cities or communities that work to reduce toxic chemical emissions and use clean energy, Clinton believes our country can also unlock new investment resources that provide economic opportunity for American companies and workers as well as a healthier, better protected environment. I agree with Clinton that improving the health of environment is very important and that it is something that our federal government should take time to invest in and figure out the problems, but at what cost? If all taxes need to be raised by dramatic amounts, I don't think it would be successful or make our citizens very happy.
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/p/briefing/factsheets/2015/09/23/hillary-clinton-vision-for-modernizing-energy-infrastructure/
To Green or not to Green-Chelsea Filippi
Hillary Clinton's plans on environmental issues are to have more than half a million solar panels installed and to generate renewable energy to power every house across the United States. She plans to pay for this by establishing a tax consensus. According to Hillary Clinton, "Through these goals, we will increase the amount of installed solar capacity by 700% by 2020, and expand renewable energy to at least a third of all electricity generation." Hillary also wants to set up a Clean Energy Challenge that will form strong relationships with other cities and other communities that want to help improve environmental issues throughout society. I agree with Hillary's plan because I feel that by installing solar panels, it will help set up renewable energy that will help improve our environment and by establishing the Clean Energy Plan, it will reach out to other communities who want to help enhance our environment as well.
Source: https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/climate/
Social Media websites for Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton uses social media as a way to improve her popularity and reach people in an effective way. Her twitter includes mostly videos with relevant captions stating her political stance- some involving snippets of her speeches while others include organizations she supports or the groups of people in the American population (like teachers, for example). Clinton also writes some tweets in Spanish,which demonstrates her outreach to different groups in America. Her twitter is the most convincing of all sites. Clinton's Facebook page has more about organizations she supports rather than her own personal posts or messages as well as videos of celebrities and popular people telling why they approve of her, whereas her Instagram and Snapchat involve herself posed with others like Katy Perry or her doing funny things. Hillary's page really doesn't need improving.
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio's social media sites are less convincing than Hillary Clinton's, and here is why: in general, he fails to make posts that include others or the general public- it's all about him and his views. On twitter, there are not many photos and videos that draw in users. He (or his team of advisors than run his page) only make tweets that involve text or responding to those who both agree and disagree with him. Without photos or videos, a page can be boring. On Facebook, all that was featured were posts about the Republican Debate last night and all of the posts made were by his fans, not his team. With Instagram, he does show more of his connection with others with photos of groups that he interacts with or supports, but the pictures aren't really interesting. It's also ironic that Rubio, of Cuban immigrants, made no posts in Spanish on any of his social media sites while Clinton had multiple ones. Rubio's pages are not terrible but they need improving- making things more about the people and less about himself.
Clearly, Hillary has our vote based off of her captivating, attention grabbing page.
To Green or Not To Green-Chris Ortiz
Marco Rubio is very pro-business in his approach towards energy. He is trying to optimize America's resources and allow businesses to have freedom with their products. Some of his key points are approving the Keystone XL Pipeline, lifting the 1972 ban on crude exports, expedite approval of American Natural Gas Exports, and bolster the energy securities of U.S. allies. In addition, Rubio wants to simplify and improve the Environmental Review process. Marco Rubio has the best interest of businesses at heart, as shown in his proposal to overhaul the Tax Code and cut taxes for businesses of all sizes. All in all, he makes sure to have big businesses making decisions on their own and wants them to have the freedom to operate at their "full potential".
"To Green or not to Green" - Noah S.
Hillary Clinton is all for making the environment safer. Clinton proposed as president that she wants to lower emission costs. http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/09/23/3704776/hillary-clinton-energy-infrastructure/. "Clinton announced that she would immediately begin negotiations for a North American Climate Compact between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, intended to create strong national targets and accountability mechanisms for emissions reductions in each country". Reducing emissions would ultimately clean the environment and reduce costs for this particular problem. "Clinton’s proposed energy infrastructure upgrades would focus on ensuring that fuels are transported across the country safely — whether by rail or pipeline — and unlocking new investment resources". While this sounds like a great plan, what are the costs of this? "Clinton previously released a detailed plan on combatting climate change and investing in renewable energy, which called for, among other things, the installation of half a billion solar panels by 2021 — a 700 percent increase over current installations". With this many solar panels, taxes would have to be increased dramatically. I like the idea that Hillary is proposing, however I don't think this will get done nor do I want to be charged an incredible amount of taxes to pay for these environmentally friendly methods of energy.
Jobs- Chelsea Filippi
Marco Rubio wants to create and pass reforms that will renew the county's labor rules and to create new ways to motivate ideas for new jobs. He feels that many people have suffered through ObamaCare, and wants to help workers recover and get back on their feet. Rubio has many ways to reach this goal.
Jobs (Hillary Clinton)-Iman Abdul
Hillary Clinton plans to create more and better jobs and improve our economy. She plans to invest in infrastructure, clean energy, and scientific/medical research. She plans to provide tax relief to working families and small businesses. She plans to enact comprehensive immigrant reform, increase private and public investment, guarantee college affordability and expand job training opportunities.
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