This sort of highlights the problem of the media defining her in sound-bites, which is what the article is stressing we need to be wary of.
She's very good at articulating the problems with Wall Street corruption in our govt. And her speeches on the senate floor are compelling, its easy to see why the media highlights these.
But she also has other issues she's working towards, like, in her own words found at link~
First, education investments are crucial. We need a work force that is well-educated and well-trained, and we need to make that happen without bankrupting families. Education is good for the individual who gets it, improving his or her lifetime chances, but education is also good for our economy, good for building a robust economy and attracting high-paying jobs here at home.
But right now we are on target for a serious shortage of college graduates. By 2020, that's six years, by 2020, we'll have five million jobs that require post-high school education and no one to fill them, and instead of making college more affordable and accessible, we're crushing kids under student loan debt.
Adjusted for inflation, costs at state schools are up nearly three hundred and fifty percent in a single generation. If we want our kids to start a life without carrying a thousand-pound rock of debt on their backs, and if we want our businesses to have a competitive workplace, then we must make sure that education is affordable. Can I have an amen on that? We just have to do this
Second, infrastructure investments. Everyone understands the importance of roads and bridges, and mass transit, and an efficient power grid, and high speed Internet connections. Infrastructure is about creating good jobs in the short run, good construction jobs, and in the long run, it's about creating the environment for more good jobs, plowing the field so that businesses can grow those jobs here at home. But right now we live in a world where China invests nine percent of its GDP in infrastructure, Europe is at five percent, the US-- 2.4 percent and looking to cut. Think of it this way: China is building a competitive advantage for its businesses, while here in America we're looking for ways to cut our basic investments.
Third, invest in scientific and medical research. Research provides the ideas and innovation that power our economy. Federal R&D is the basis. I just made a very short list here that I could do off the top of my head, for the internet, for GPS, for nanotechnology, for flu vaccines, it's the basis.
For every dollar spent at NIH, for example, there's an economic pop of two dollars and 21 cents in the private sector, and in the long run it's that giant pipeline of ideas and all those smart scientists and entrepreneurs who use that research to make this economy soar, but since the 1960s this country has slashed the investment in federal R&D, as a percentage of GDP, by more than 50 percent. Surely no one believes that we build a more competitive, more innovative country by shrinking the pipeline of ideas.
Our country is headed in the wrong direction, the American dream is slipping out of reach, and we, you and I, may be the first generation in American history to see our kids do worse than we did. This cannot be the legacy we leave for our children and for our grandchildren. We must fight back with everything we have.
The game is rigged, but we know how to fix it. We know what to do.
We tested the Republican ideas and they failed, they failed spectacularly, there's no denying that fact....
She "isn't running for president" atm but when/"if" she does, we'll find out more, like the issues of military spending.
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