Who said it, Hans Reigle or John Carney?
Take the quiz. Identify which statement was copied from which candidates web page, and I’ll post the correct answers in the comment section this afternoon.
Deficit:
A: “For too long, Democrats and Republicans have spent trillions of dollars the nation didn’t have.”
B: “Eliminate wasteful spending that is draining our nation’s economic resources. An $19 trillion national debt is unacceptable.”
Jobs:
A: “Reclaim high tech and low tech manufacturing jobs to enable more Americans to work. Too many jobs have moved overseas. Strong export industries like aerospace and agriculture need to be nurtured.”
B: “Delawareans are not just competing against other Americans for good jobs — they are competing against an increasingly educated workforce around the world. By investing in innovation and building the industries of the future, the U.S. will continue to grow and maintain the world’s leading economy.”
Education:
A: “…states and school districts should have flexibility in determining how best to educate their students.”
B: “Local control of education needs to be increased and maintained.”
National Security:
A: “Address our border control problems in order for Americans to reclaim our sense of security. Current immigration laws are not being properly enforced. A weak border complicates immigration reform and is a threat to our national security. Unvetted immigrants should not be allowed entry into the United States.
B: I firmly believe that America should be focused on nation-building here at home, not abroad, I feel strongly that we must maintain a counterterrorism infrastructure that ensures a tragedy like September 11th will never happen again.
I get that this is tough. I’ll give one hint. I mixed them up. All the “A’s” are not one and the “B’s” the other. Also, I think the national security one is pretty cinchey.
OK, I’ll play, but I’m just guessing based on vocabulary:
Carney is A, B, A, B.
I thought maybe you were punking us and they were all Jack Markell. But then I got to the one about local control of education.
Vocabulary and syntax are really the only hand holds.
aaanonymous nailed it. Other than vocabulary, there is no daylight between Carney and Reigle.
Umm none of these quotes are very substantial. These are all subjects and stances pretty much everyone agrees on expect the refugee quotes. But OK.
There is no daylight between Carney and the Republican on any issue. That’s the point.
Here’s how I did it:
1) Quote A blames both parties; a Republican would never do that, but Carney would.
2) Quote A mentions two specific industries while illustrating a lack of understanding of either. Must be the Republican.
3) Quote B cites local control, making it the likely Republican quote, but Quote A’s use of the weasel word “flexibility” makes it unmistakably Carney.
4) Quote A linked immigration to national security; only Republicans dream of guys wearing sombreros while quoting the Qur’an.
In short, the major difference is that one guy has professional speechwriters to massage the bullshit, and the other one doesn’t.
Both state that the “Deficit” is somehow hurting the economy, and suggest that austerity is the answer. That’s the thing that kills me. It is the ‘Club for Growth’ lie that has been absorbed into John Carney’s bone marrow.
As the deficit shrinks, Republicans and Carney have substituted the word “debt” for “deficit” in their pro-austerity moralizing without even skipping a beat. They are (correctly) assuming most people don’t know the difference and won’t notice.
The deficit and debt do hurt the economy, but nowhere near as much as austerity does. The real story is who suffers the most on each path. Austerity hits the poor hardest.
What would hurt the economy least would be to pay down the deficit by raising taxes on the dead money corporations, non-profits and the rich are sitting on. Also, the financial transaction tax that Sanders has proposed would raise, by a conservative estimate, $300 billion a year.
We have clear solutions to our problems, but one political party (and clueless centrists of the other) persistently refuses to employ those solutions.
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