Brad Vaughan: Trump is the candidate of change; Clinton continues Obama’s legacy
Although Donald Trump has his own shortcomings, compared to Hillary Clinton’s they are minor and manageable! Hillary has been around Washington as a career politician for 25 years. She is in the middle of all that is wrong with our oversized, out-of-touch government.
Donald is out in the real world as a businessman putting people to work. Hillary has been a failure. Her centralized health plan fizzled. As Secretary of State she has created a disaster in the Middle East that has led to ISIS forming in the vacuum in Iraq. Now ISIS is spreading to Syria, creating the great refugee debacle, and Iran with the nuclear deal fiasco and multi-billion-dollar payoff. If you are happy with our current president, even though we have fewer people working today than in decades, the lowest home ownership in 50 years, the slowest eight-year recovery since the Great Depression, more small businesses failing than new ones starting up, a national debt that has increased under Obama more than all other U.S. Presidents combined ($10 trillion), then Hillary is the candidate for you.
With no original ideas, health issues, $100 million in Wall Street donations, she will be the perfect candidate to keep the existing snowball rolling in the wrong direction.
Brad Vaughan, Modesto
Editor’s note: U.S. Labor Dept. statistics show the number of people working in America today at 151.9 million, up from 145.0 million in 2008 and 127.5 million in 1996 and 115.2 million in 1988.
This story was originally published October 10, 2016 at 12:55 PM with the headline "Brad Vaughan: Trump is the candidate of change; Clinton continues Obama’s legacy."