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on Wednesday September 14 2016, @01:07PM
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Three of the four major candidates for United States president have responded to America's Top 20 Presidential Science, Engineering, Technology, Health and Environmental Questions. The nonprofit advocacy group ScienceDebate.org has posted their responses online. Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Jill Stein had all responded as of press time, and the group was awaiting responses from Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson.
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(Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday September 14 2016, @05:40PM
My Summary
Hillary: As president she promises to do $X over and over. As $PREVOUS_GOV_POSITION she was already tackling this issue. Public taxes pay for research and then that research is transferred to private companies to build products. Basically more of the same. Notable exceptions being she would increase defense spending on cyber warfare (probably means more spying). H1B is great and expand visa/green card stuff. Her answers were typically several paragraphs. Took a snipe at Trump during one of her answers.
Trump: The government only has so much money so we'll put it where the priorities are. Crazy people shouldn't be in prison. End government spying. "Climate Change" isn't something to worry about. Tighter fiscal responsibility. His answers were typically one short paragraph to the point.
Jill: Cutting down trees isn't bad as long as it is sustainable. Tear down the entire oil industry. Tear down the nuclear industry. End war on drugs. Remove all funding from cyber warfare and drastically reduce military spending (but not downsizing, so this would probably just be less R&D and offensive stuff. Think less foreign bases and F35-type projects). Help create a UN force responsible for policing cyber attacks at a global level. Free (higher) education. Her answers were usually more technical and not much politics involved.
On a more personal note, I was more for Jill before reading her answers. But her answers made me feel like i was going to need to get a bicycle to survive her administration. I realize though her proposed changes are actually good, just drastic. If more of the country was on electric cars i would be all for it. But i feel like she was the only candidate that was looking for long-term solutions. I'd like her to push for better nuclear though and not just tear it down.
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(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Thursday September 15 2016, @12:11AM
"But her answers made me feel like i was going to need to get a bicycle to survive her administration. "
Only if you're a normal person of course, at least that's how the Greens that are in power where I live do it (they're called watermelons for a reason, they've kept this attitude from before they were green. And yes it's copypasted straight out of the USSR & Mao's China where everyone truly important enough had a car and a driver).
And even with that in mind Jill Stein still beats Hillary and Johnson by a huge margin in my opinion! Likewise Trump easily wins over all of them.
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