The U.S. Presidential Election 2020/Carlos Pueblo

The U.S. Presidential Election 2020/Carlos Pueblo

Both parties have begun their campaign, the incumbent Trump for his

re-election fund raising while the Democrats on their primary competition.

I have voted for the Democrat all my life and I have seen enough of Trump;

therefore, I shall point out several issues which interested the Democrats

potential at the primary, National healthcare, Student loans debt forgiveness,

Equal pay for woman and the immigration, and the Reparation for slavery.

The cost of healthcare is one of the top list of issues in our life. Living in the

U.S. without health insurance is a threat. I have just come out of the un-insured

status when I have enrolled to the Medicare. Suddenly, my life has been changed.

Amy needs to wait two and half years to be eligible for Medicare while both of our

grown up children have their coverage through their employers. We make a decision

not to purchase the Obamacare due to the cost and to keep her grandfather major

medical instead to avoid tax penalty. Basically, she is a self-insured person. I don’t see

any way that the U.S. can afford any kinds of national healthcare system, yet I do see

one candidate attempts to lower the eligible age of the Medicare from 65 to 60 and

expand the Medicaid eligibility broader, the annual income test.

The college loans forgiveness is very popular for some progressive Democrats, at

least I have seen two dominant candidates. The number is estimated to top 1.7

trillions. I don’t know how the current U.S. Federal budget can afford it. Every one

is affected by the loans default, the banks, the C.D. and bond holders, and the

governments, etc. There are winners on this issue, the defaulted borrowers, the

college, and the banks. I don’t believe that is a valid issue and it is very hard to

believe that we can solve it. The defaulted needs to file bankruptcy and let all

involved go through normal process.

The Reparations for Slavery and the discrimination issue have been raised especially

during this Trump administration. On the Reparation part, I don’t know how and how

much? At least half of the voters won’t support it. I am interested in the slavery issue

of the old world like in Chinese classical novel. It has taken several generations to

abolish slavery in China yet there is still slave labor existed in China. I don’t think that

this U.S. generation is more determined than several generations before us. I check

the issue on google and the compensated emancipation pup up. It is different between

reparation and emancipation yet both issues come from slavery. I travel to the Caribbean

often and I always have a question to myself, the better off or the worse off? To solve

the difficulty of the world poverty is really on the education opportunity and the healthcare

for all.