<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Which begs the question . . .</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">When (not "If") Hillary Clinton Is inaugurated in January, what will be Bill Clinton's official title? First Dude?<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div><div><br>On Apr 7, 2016, at 4:12 PM, Kenneth Marcy <<a href="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com">kmmos1@frontier.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>On 4/6/2016 5:13 PM, lfalen wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hillary is indited, Bernie gets the democratic nomination and Trump the GOP one. Can't thank of any two worse candidates.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Of course we can be thankful for the opportunity to choose decades of elective experience in public service over an inexperienced, never-elected political novice.</span><br><span></span><br><span>We can be grateful to choose someone with a stable personality well-grounded in the history of American fiscal and foreign policy as well as the details of legislative accomplishment over someone so unaware of and unfamiliar with so basic an American policy over the last seven decades as control of nuclear materials away from potential theaters of military conflict. Trump suggesting that more countries should have nuclear weapons capability is foreign policy insanity, and it is no wonder that many countries are looking at the 2016 American presidential election cycle and wondering what diabolical chaos has infected the American electorate.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Bernie Sanders' social programs assume the continuing success of the capitalist American economy to generate sufficient products and profits to provide a better standard of living for a greater proportion of Americans. Choosing greater tax equity and less unproductive expenditures will allow Sanders' proposals to proceed to success for more people than the current trajectory of public policies.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Harnessing capitalism's natural tendencies to reorganize around flexible and changing profit centers as markets evolve toward newer economic realities will provide plentiful profits and better satisfy a wider diversity of people's needs for health care, education, and returning employment opportunities. There likely will be a larger number of somewhat smaller firms providing more specialized services.</span><br><span></span><br><span>For example, more banks, each capitalized to lower and safer levels with greater separation between basic banking and investment banking, could reinvigorate that portion of the financial services market. Additionally, specialized insurance companies providing supplemental coverages to complement coverages from an expanded single-payer federal health care program could well represent a reorganized and more efficient and productive health insurance industry. Consumers will likely spend money saved in one area in another area, thus keeping the velocity of money high. Investors who recover money from one venture may reinvest it in others, so there will be plenty of opportunities to make plenty of money during a Sanders presidency, but those opportunities will occur within an environment of greater fiscal justice and more social responsibility.</span><br><span></span><br><span>We can be thankful that our more highly interconnected social media environment is encouraging more people, especially younger people who grew up concurrently with the maturing of digital social interactions, to investigate, to understand, and to improve the consciously constipated corporate systems that funnel money upward to those who do not need it rather than to those whose personal productivity would be greatly enhanced by implementation of a variety of basic human services available elsewhere in the industrially developed world.</span><br><span></span><br><span>The bottom line is that we, collectively, can do better for ourselves if we will have the courage to select, elect, and support the administration of rational change agents.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Ken</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>=======================================================</span><br><span>List services made available by First Step Internet,</span><br><span>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a></span><br><span> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a></span><br><span>=======================================================</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>