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I covered the BIG 3 Platform stances yesterday (Death Penalty, Abortion, 2nd Amendment).  Today I will talk about a few other stances I have on issues important to Americans. Social Security - At this point people are living longer and fewer workers are working to support the increase in retired Americans drawing Social Security.  The Social Security Administration has been using the interest on its securities to cover the shortfall since 2010, but the fund will currently run dry by 2033 if we don't do something to fix the program, as without a fix, they will need to use the securities themselves to pay out, and eventually the money will be gone completely and we will no longer have enough to fund those receiving benefits.  What's the fix?  There are many ways the program can be changed to make it viable again.  The most common sense one that I believe in is to raise the maximum taxable earnings limit for paying in to the Social Security Program.  In 2...

It's funny.  Racism is that issue we have faced as a nation for as long as we can look back in our history.  Our nation was built on the racism that existed hundreds of years ago.  Look at slavery.  This is something that has stuck with future generations of African Americans who know that in many cases, the only reason their families ended up in this country was because of the slave trade.    Yes, things have become better at times, but at other times Racism simply finds its way to the forefront of the news and media again and again.  Here we are in 2018, and just over the past 2 months we have seen black men getting the police called on them at Starbucks in a situation that likely would not have occurred if those men were white.  We have had a black college student at Yale fall asleep in a common area as another Yale student called the police on her for no good reason at all.  Now, allegedly, that same person...