Hillary and The Laws She Broke

Hillary and The Law

Here’s a brief rundown of some of the laws the former Secretary of State has potentially run afoul of:

Unauthorized Removal and Retention of Classified Documents or Material

18 U.S.C. § 1924

Class: A Misdemeanor

Possible Penalty: Imprisonment for 1 year and/or $100,000 fine

Text: “Knowingly removing materials containing classified information of the United States with the intent to retain said info at an unauthorized location without the authority to do so”

Gathering, Transmitting Or Losing Defense Information

18 U.S.C. § 793

Class: Felony

Possible Penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years and/or $250,000 fine

Text: “Allowing [by means of gross negligence] any document relating to the national defense to be removed from its proper place of custody or destroyed –or- willfully retaining unauthorized documents relating to national defense and failing to deliver them to the United States employee entitled to receive them –or- failure to report that unauthorized documents relating to national defense were removed from their proper place of custody or destroyed”

Concealment, Removal, Or Mutilation Generally

18 U.S.C. § 2071

Class: Felony

Possible Penalty: Imprisonment of no more than 3 years, a fine, or both

Text: “Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same”

Destruction, Alteration, Or Falsification of Records in Federal Investigations and Bankruptcy

18 U.S.C. § 1519

Class: Felony

Possible Penalty: Imprisonment of no more than 20 years, a fine, or both

Text: “Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsifies, or makes a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States”

Many educated people don’t think scientifically

Many educated people don’t think scientifically

Regarding the op-ed “Creationists Disregard Science" In answer to Professor John Withmore’s assertion, I would point out that in the scientific process, one starts with a hypothesis and works to a conclusion based on evidence they discover.

Many people with degrees carry out nonscientific thinking.

On the other hand, anyone can be scientific by going through a logical process with an open mind.

PAUL RYAN'S PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS

PAUL RYAN'S PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS

Notice S.S. and the military are NOT on this list.

These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting:

 * Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy -- $445 million annual savings.

 * Save America 's Treasures Program -- $25 million annual savings.

 * International Fund for Ireland -- $17 million annual savings.

 * Legal Services Corporation -- $420 million annual savings.

 * National Endowment for the Arts -- $167.5 million annual savings.

 * National Endowment for the Humanities -- $167.5 million annual savings.

 * Hope VI Program -- $250 million annual savings.

 * Amtrak Subsidies -- $1.565 billion annual savings.

 * Eliminate duplicating education programs -- H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon , eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.

 * U.S. Trade Development Agency -- $55 million annual savings.

 * Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy -- $20 million annual savings.

 * Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding -- $47 million annual savings.

 * John C. Stennis Center Subsidy -- $430,000 annual savings.

 * Community Development Fund -- $4.5 billion annual savings.

 * Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid -- $24 million annual savings.

 * Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half -- $7.5 billion annual savings

 * Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20% -- $600 million annual savings.

 * Essential Air Service -- $150 million annual savings.

 * Technology Innovation Program -- $70 million annual savings.

 *Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program -- $125 million annual savings..

 * Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization -- $530 million annual savings.

 * Beach Replenishment -- $95 million annual savings. 

 * New Starts Transit -- $2 billion annual savings.

* Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts -- $9 million annual savings

 * Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants -- $2.5 billion annual savings.

 * Title X Family Planning -- $318 million annual savings.

 * Appalachian Regional Commission -- $76 million annual savings.

 * Economic Development Administration -- $293 million annual savings.

 * Programs under the National and Community Services Act -- $1.15 billion annual savings.

 * Applied Research at Department of Energy -- $1.27 billion annual savings.

 * Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership -- $200 million annual savings..

 * Energy Star Program -- $52 million annual savings.

 *Economic Assistance to Egypt -- $250 million annually.

 * U.S. Agency for International Development -- $1.39 billion annual savings.

 * General Assistance to District of Columbia -- $210 million annual savings.

 * Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority -- $150 million annual savings.

 *Presidential Campaign Fund -- $775 million savings over ten years.

 * No funding for federal office space acquisition -- $864 million annual savings.

 * End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.

 * Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act -- More than $1 billion annually.

 * IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget -- $1.8 billion savings over ten years. 

 *Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees -- $1 billion total savings.

 * Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees -- $1.2 billion savings over ten years.

 * Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of -- $15 billion total savings.

 *Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress.

 * Eliminate Mohair Subsidies -- $1 million annual savings.

 *Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- $12.5 million annual savings.

* Eliminate Market Access Program -- $200 million annual savings.

 * USDA Sugar Program -- $14 million annual savings.

 * Subsidy to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) -- $93 million annual savings.

* Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program -- $56.2 million annual savings.

 *Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs -- $900 million savings.

 * Ready to Learn TV Program -- $27 million savings..

 * HUD Ph.D. Program.

 * Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.

*TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years

My question is, what is all this doing in the budget in the first place?! Maybe this is why the Democrats are attacking Paul Ryan.

Donald Trump's 28 initiatives: Who Could Disagree?

Donald Trump has outlined 28 initiatives he plans to accomplish in this first 100 days, an impressive list, very beneficial to “We the People”

Below are the enumerated initiatives in the “Contract With the American Voter” as outlined by Mr. Trump. My comments follow each initiative is included.

1. Propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress. Yes! Good luck with that one. Newt tried it in 1994 in his similarly-named Contract With America. Congressional term limits was the only provision of the contract that was not passed. You can’t exactly expect career parasites to vote themselves off the gravy train. They may be corrupt, but they’re not stupid. It will take massive public pressure to pass this one. Again, good luck!
2. Institute a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health). Perfect! Allow attrition to naturally reduce the size of the voracious monster that has become our federal government. I would actually prefer something a bit more aggressive, like completely eliminating useless and/or redundant departments, bureaus, and agencies, but this will do nicely. It was also Mitt Romney’s plan in 2012. 
3. Require for every new federal regulation, two existing regulations must be eliminated. Suits me. We are choking to death in regulation and laws. Often, obeying a law at one level violates a law at another. That is how crazy the laws and regulation have become.
4. Institute a five year-ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government service. Yep! Beltway parasites leaving government service for the greener pastures of K Street has been a yuge problem for We the People. Congressmen have gone to Washington and have become rich, completely losing sight of why they were sent there. Five years will turn over Congress enough that the influence of a one-time Congressman will be greatly reduced if not impotent, and undesirable by the nefarious forces who have been hiring our legislators to influence and manipulate legislation.
5. Create a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government. Common sense!
6. Institute a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections. One needs to look no further than the Wicked Witch of Benghazi to understand the need for this one. Imagine, the same people who funded the terrorists who took down our World Trade Center and murdered over 3,000 innocent people are the same people who are throwing as much money at Hitlery as she can spend to win the White House, which they will then own.
7. Announce intention to renegotiate NAFTA or withdraw from the deal under Article 2205. Renegotiate, hell! Pull out. We are in the driver’s seat. We don’t need to renegotiate.
8. Announce withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. YES! The latest job-stealing brainstorm of the liberal morons is good for Asia, horrible for Mom and Pop America.
9. Direct Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator. Yeah, trade policy must finally be reformed in America’s favor. We have been giving away the store and it is stupid! I wrote an article on this very thing over three years ago, long before The Donald was on the presidential, and surprisingly it matches his own trade policy almost exactly. Link…. Time To Stop Being Stupid!
10. Direct the Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately. Good leadership. America first, baby!
11. Lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal. I know, it sounds like a no-brainer. Unfortunately, We the People have been the hapless victims of brainless, corrupt politicians for a very long time. I believe we should also go completely isolationist on this one. Forget OPEC. We create our own energy market, not subject to OPEC manipulation. We have the resources, we have the technology. America first, baby!
12. Lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward. Yep! Tens of thousands of good-paying AMERICAN jobs will result from this.
13. Cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America’s water and environmental infrastructure. Good for starters, but I think we should pull completely out of the UN. It has proven to be a parasitic, overbearing, tyrannical and completely unnecessary Big Brother. And we are paying for it! Not only are We the People the greatest financial contributor to the UN, but we are also hosting the worthless paper tiger. We the People do NOT need the UN or any other additional layer of government to lead us around by our noses.
14. Cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama. Music to my ears! All of Hussein’s executive orders have been unconstitutional. Repeal them all!
15. Begin the process of selecting a replacement for Justice Scalia from one of the 20 judges on my list, who will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. For all of you Trump-hating boneheads out there who oppose Donald Trump because you believe he hates our Constitution, please read #15 over and over again until you get it.
16. Cancel all federal funding to Sanctuary Cities. Common sense!
17. Begin removing the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won’t take them back. Good! If they are criminal illegal aliens they belong in one of two places – the hellhole they came from or an American prison, then sent back to the hellhole they came from. And I don’t understand the part regarding “foreign countries that won’t take them back.” You fly them to the country they came from, lower the ramp, escort them off the plane, and take off. How difficult is that. The country they came from doesn’t have to agree to accept them. They don’t have to like it. We land in the country they came from ILLEGALLY, escort them down the ramp where they plant their feet on Terra firma, and fly away. They then become their country of origin’s problem, as it should be. We need not be concerned about them anymore. I truly wish them well in the future. 
18. Suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur. All vetting of people coming into our country will be considered extreme vetting. As it is impossible to vet most of these “refugees,” I expect the immigration from terror-prone regions (Middle East) will be a trickle, at most, and those will likely be educated, documented, vettable individuals. Great idea and just more common sense.
19. Work with Congress on a Middle Class Tax Relief And Simplification Act. An economic plan designed to grow the economy 4% per year and create at least 25 million new jobs through massive tax reduction and simplification, in combination with trade reform, regulatory relief, and lifting the restrictions on American energy. The largest tax reductions are for the middle class. A middle-class family with 2 children will get a 35% tax cut. The current number of brackets will be reduced from 7 to 3, and tax forms will likewise be greatly simplified. The business rate will be lowered from 35 to 15 percent, and the trillions of dollars of American corporate money overseas can now be brought back at a 10 percent rate. Welcome improvements upon our current mind-blowing tax code, but I had hoped to see the abolishment of the IRS and a fair tax, flat tax system, or value-added tax (sales tax) system. I’m sure Trump’s experts have consulted on this a great deal and determined that this is the best short-term solution. I trust their judgment implicitly.
20. Work with Congress on an End The Offshoring Act. Establishes tariffs to discourage companies from laying off their workers in order to relocate in other countries and ship their products back to the U.S. tax-free. Much, much needed legislation. Not sure about working “with Congress,” though. This may need to be done by executive order (hopefully not, as The Donald is expected to maintain Republican majorities in both chambers, keeping in mind that some Republicans are not exactly pro-Trump or pro-American). Either way, it will keep American jobs in America instead of Mexico or China. Slap a nice fat import tariff on the goods the traitorous companies who leave the US want to ship back to us so that they can make a nice fat profit and to hell with the loyal American employees who helped build their companies. One of two things will happen – they will return to the US with their tails between their legs or their businesses will dry up and blow away, as the new pricing that the tariff demands makes American manufacturers of the same products competitive again. It is those patriots who should reap the benefit of their allegiance, not the scumbags who deserted their loyal American employees so that they and their shareholders could make even more money for themselves. 
21. Work with Congress on an American Energy & Infrastructure Act. Leverages public-private partnerships, and private investments through tax incentives, to spur $1 trillion in infrastructure investment over 10 years. It is revenue neutral. Yep! Approve the common sense Keystone pipeline.
22. Work with Congress on a School Choice And Education Opportunity Act. Redirects education dollars to give parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice. Ends common core, brings education supervision to local communities. It expands vocational and technical education, and make 2 and 4-year college more affordable. This is very near and dear to my heart as my children suffered a horrible public school education at the hands of people I consider career parasites who forced my children to attend the school THEY wanted them to attend. Bullshit! I am in the preliminary stages of writing a book on the incredible difficulty and often misery simply being an American entails, devoting an entire chapter to this topic. The rest of the world believes it is wonderful in America. It isn’t and it hasn’t been for a very long time. Donald Trump is doing all the right things to right our course in the direction our founders intended.
23. Work with Congress on a Repeal and Replace Obamacare Act. Fully repeals Obamacare and replaces it with Health Savings Accounts, the ability to purchase health insurance across state lines, and lets states manage Medicaid funds. Reforms will also include cutting the red tape at the FDA: there are over 4,000 drugs awaiting approval, and we especially want to speed the approval of life-saving medications. Obamacare sucks! Typical Democrat/Marxist income redistribution. Anything is an improvement. Removing state borders to increase competition and getting the federal government the hell out of our doctor’s office are great ideas! Health Savings Accounts only work for those who can afford them, however, and those people number fewer and fewer every day. Increasing wages and prosperity will go a long way towards making healthcare affordable again. Wages have remained stagnant while the cost of healthcare has skyrocketed. Wages MUST improve. Reducing federal spending while creating tax incentives will stimulate our economic engine, spreading prosperity from sea to shining sea once again.
24. Work with Congress on an Affordable Childcare and Eldercare Act. Allows Americans to deduct childcare and elder care from their taxes, incentivizes employers to provide on-side childcare services, and creates tax-free Dependent Care Savings Accounts for both young and elderly dependents, with matching contributions for low-income families. While I shudder to see new entitlements this is common sense and will help millions of Americans to keep more of their earnings.
25. Work with Congress on an End Illegal Immigration Act Fully-funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2-year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5-year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first. Much needed. We have been looking the other way while millions of illegal aliens enter our country. Many are deported, only to re-enter again and again. Enough already! You want to become an American, no problem. Get in line with the legal immigrants and we will accept all we can without causing injury to our own people. Entering any country illegally is not the best way to win the respect of your host.
26. Work with Congress on a Restoring Community Safety Act. Reduces surging crime, drugs and violence by creating a Task Force On Violent Crime and increasing funding for programs that train and assist local police; increases resources for federal law enforcement agencies and federal prosecutors to dismantle criminal gangs and put violent offenders behind bars. Common sense legislation.
27. Work with Congress on a Restoring National Security Act. Rebuilds our military by eliminating the defense sequester and expanding military investment; provides Veterans with the ability to receive public VA treatment or attend the private doctor of their choice; protects our vital infrastructure from cyber-attack; establishes new screening procedures for immigration to ensure those who are admitted to our country support our people and our values. After eight years of dangerously depleting our military it desperately needs rebuilding. Taking care of our vets is common sense and the moral thing to do. They signed a blank check payable to We the People for an amount up to and including their very lives. We OWE them!
28. Work with Congress on a Cleanup Corruption in Washington Act. Enacts new ethics reforms to Drain the Swamp and reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics. This one is actually funny. “Work with Congress?” LOL! Congress will not vote themselves off the gravy train. While there are a handful of Republicans in Congress who I consider patriots, there are not enough of them to approve such legislation, which in itself is a crying shame. While a fantastic idea, don’t expect Congress to go along. This may have to be another executive order. Congress will hate it, but it is the right thing to do for the people. How about a national referendum on this and Congressional term limits. I am absolutely certain that they would be both be approved directly by We the People. Who can order a national referendum is the question. They are not provided for or addressed in our Constitution. However, I believe the broad power of executive order gives this authority to the President, which Barack Hussein has proven.

My vote, explained

My vote, explained

Charles Krauthammer

WASHINGTON - The case against Hillary Clinton could have been written before the recent Wiki-Leaks and FBI disclosures. But these documents do provide hard textual backup.

The most sensational disclosure was the proposed deal between the State Department and the FBI in which the FBI would declassify a Clinton email and State would give the FBI more slots in overseas stations. What made it sensational was the rare appearance in an official account of “quid pro quo,” which is the agreed-upon dividing line between acceptable and unacceptable corruption.

This is nonetheless an odd choice for most egregious offense. First, it occurred several layers removed from the campaign and from Clinton. It involved a career State Department official (he occupied the same position under Condoleezza Rice) covering not just for Clinton but for his department.

Second, it’s not clear which side originally offered the bargain. Third, nothing tangible was supposed to exchange hands. There was no proposed personal enrichment – a Rolex in return for your soul – which tends to be our standard for punishable misconduct.

And finally, it never actually happened. The FBI turned down the declassification request.

In sum, a warm gun but nonsmoking gun. Indeed, if the phrase “quid pro quo” hadn’t appeared, it would have received little attention. Moreover, it obscures the real scandal – the bottomless cynicism of the campaign and of the candidate.

Among dozens of examples; the Qatari gambit. Qatar, one of the worst actors in the Middle East (having financially supported the Islamic State, for example), offered $1 million as a “birthday” gift to Bill Clinton in return for five minutes of his time. Who offers – who takes – $200,000 a minute? We don’t know the “quid” here, but it’s got to be big.

In the final debate, Clinton hid when asked about pay-for-play at the Clinton Foundation. And for good reason. The emails reveal how foundation donors were first in line for favors and contracts.

A governance review by an outside law firm reported that some donors “may have an expectation of quid pro quo benefits in return for gifts.” You need an outside law firm to tell you that? If your Sultanic heart bleeds for Haiti, why not give to Haiti directly? Because if you give through the Clintons, you have a claim on future favors.

The soullessness of this campaign – all ambition and entitlement – emerges almost poignantly in the emails, especially when aides keep asking what the campaign is about. In one largely overlooked passage, Clinton complains that her speechwriters have not given her any overall theme or rationale. Isn’t that the candidate’s job? Asked one of her aides, Joel Benenson: “Do we have any sense from her what she believes or wants her core message to be?”

It’s that emptiness at the core that makes every policy and position negotiable and politically calculable. Hence the embarrassing about-face on the Trans-Pacific Partnership after the popular winds swung decisively against free trade.

So too with the financial regulation, as in Dodd-Frank. As she told a Goldman Sachs gathering, after the financial collapse there was “a need to do something because, for political reasons ... you can’t sit idly by and do nothing.”

Giving the appearance that something had to be done. That’s not why Elizabeth Warren supported Dodd-Frank. Which is the difference between a conviction politician like Warren and a calculating machine like Clinton.

Of course, we knew all this. But we hadn’t seen it so clearly laid out. Illicit and illegal as is WikiLeaks, it is the camera in the sausage factory. And what it reveals is surpassingly unpretty.

I didn’t need the Wiki files to oppose Hillary Clinton. As a conservative, I have long disagreed with her worldview and the policies that flow from it. As for character, I have watched her long enough to find her deeply flawed, to the point of unfitness. But for those heretofore unpersuaded, the recent disclosures should close the case.

If you are part of the 71% of Americans that believe the country is going in the wrong direction: Vote Trump

If you are part of the 71% of Americans that believe the country is going in the wrong direction: Vote Trump

Trump can shake up Washington, lead

Mason, Ohio resident Jordan B. Arnold

Thousands across Hamilton County are voting for Donald Trump because they are tired of the conventional approach to politics. Politicians at every level have led us into an era of economic stagnation, offering no vision and no plan for the future. Our people understand that for Washington’s politicians, our region hasn’t been a priority.

Every four years, lifelong politicos like Hillary Clinton come to our region promising solutions that never materialize. During his own campaign against then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama promised a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and it was never taken up by Clinton in the State Department.

President Obama told us that he would fight to replace the Brent Spence Bridge, but he has failed to follow through. On so many issues that are important to us, the conventional politics has given us nothing but broken promises and broken trust.

In The Enquirer’s Facebook Live announcement that the editorial board was endorsing Clinton, Opinion Editor Cindi Andrews revealed reservations about her candidacy. Andrews is not the only one with these concerns; many don’t trust Clinton. People do not trust government to do what is best for them. They do not wish to give control of their lives to Washington or City Hall, who raise the cost of living while wages remain stagnant. This is why so many have chosen Trump, and why there is such apathy about local political races.

If Donald Trump is elected president, Hamilton County will be in a favorable position to renegotiate the federal government’s unfunded mandate to the Metropolitan Sewer District. I believe that smart leadership from the county and city can even win a waiver from Trump’s EPA, allowing local government to focus on services and delay the most lavish improvements to the sewer system until a funding source can be found.

Democrats and Republicans must work together to address the issues that we face. The culture of stagnation that bogs down our political system is caused by entrenched political leaders like Hillary Clinton, who will unify Republicans in opposition to her agenda. Only Donald Trump can shake up Washington and lead, and I know he will be a friend to Hamilton County.

Political leaders from Washington to Cincinnati aren’t focused on the issues that bring up the quality of life in our neighborhoods. Instead, they are focused on personal feuds and outrage over silly words. We deserve better than this system, and to change it we should all vote for Donald J. Trump.

Debate Question: What steps will your energy policy take to meet our energy needs, while at the same time remaining environmentally friendly and minimizing job loss for fossil power plant workers?

Debate Question: What steps will your energy policy take to meet our energy needs, while at the same time remaining environmentally friendly and minimizing job loss for fossil power plant workers?

TRUMP: Absolutely. I think it’s such a great question, because energy is under siege by the Obama administration. Under absolutely siege. The EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, is killing these energy companies. And foreign companies are now coming in buying our — buying so many of our different plants and then re-jiggering the plant so that they can take care of their oil.

We are killing — absolutely killing our energy business in this country. Now, I’m all for alternative forms of energy, including wind, including solar, et cetera. But we need much more than wind and solar.

And you look at our miners. Hillary Clinton wants to put all the miners out of business. There is a thing called clean coal. Coal will last for 1,000 years in this country. Now we have natural gas and so many other things because of technology. We have unbelievable — we have found over the last seven years, we have found tremendous wealth right under our feet. So good. Especially when you have $20 trillion in debt.

I will bring our energy companies back. They’ll be able to compete. They’ll make money. They’ll pay off our national debt. They’ll pay off our tremendous budget deficits, which are tremendous. But we are putting our energy companies out of business. We have to bring back our workers.

You take a look at what’s happening to steel and the cost of steel and China dumping vast amounts of steel all over the United States, which essentially is killing our steelworkers and our steel companies. We have to guard our energy companies. We have to make it possible.

The EPA is so restrictive that they are putting our energy companies out of business. And all you have to do is go to a great place like West Virginia or places like Ohio, which is phenomenal, or places like Pennsylvania and you see what they’re doing to the people, miners and others in the energy business. It’s a disgrace.

CLINTON: And actually — well, that was very interesting. First of all, China is illegally dumping steel in the United States and Donald Trump is buying it to build his buildings, putting steelworkers and American steel plants out of business. That’s something that I fought against as a senator and that I would have a trade prosecutor to make sure that we don’t get taken advantage of by China on steel or anything else.

You know, because it sounds like you’re in the business or you’re aware of people in the business — you know that we are now for the first time ever energy-independent. We are not dependent upon the Middle East. But the Middle East still controls a lot of the prices. So the price of oil has been way down. And that has had a damaging effect on a lot of the oil companies, right? We are, however, producing a lot of natural gas, which serves as a bridge to more renewable fuels. And I think that’s an important transition.

We’ve got to remain energy-independent. It gives us much more power and freedom than to be worried about what goes on in the Middle East. We have enough worries over there without having to worry about that.

So I have a comprehensive energy policy, but it really does include fighting climate change, because I think that is a serious problem. And I support moving toward more clean, renewable energy as quickly as we can, because I think we can be the 21st century clean energy superpower and create millions of new jobs and businesses.

But I also want to be sure that we don’t leave people behind. That’s why I’m the only candidate from the very beginning of this campaign who had a plan to help us revitalize coal country, because those coal miners and their fathers and their grandfathers, they dug that coal out. A lot of them lost their lives. They were injured, but they turned the lights on and they powered their factories. I don’t want to walk away from them. So we’ve got to do something for them. [what and when?]

From the Debate: Trump and Hillary exchange on the Supreme Court

From the Debate: Trump and Hillary exchange on the Supreme Court

From the actual transcripts of the debate:

CLINTON: Thank you. Well, you’re right. This is one of the most important issues in this election. I want to appoint Supreme Court justices who understand the way the world really works, who have real-life experience, who have not just been in a big law firm and maybe clerked for a judge and then gotten on the bench, but, you know, maybe they tried some more cases, they actually understand what people are up against.

Because I think the current court has gone in the wrong direction. And so I would want to see the Supreme Court reverse Citizens United and get dark, unaccountable money out of our politics. Donald doesn’t agree with that.

I would like the Supreme Court to understand that voting rights are still a big problem in many parts of our country, that we don’t always do everything we can to make it possible for people of color and older people and young people to be able to exercise their franchise. I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality.

Now, Donald has put forth the names of some people that he would consider. And among the ones that he has suggested are people who would reverse Roe v. Wade and reverse marriage equality. I think that would be a terrible mistake and would take us backwards.

I want a Supreme Court that doesn’t always side with corporate interests. I want a Supreme Court that understands because you’re wealthy and you can give more money to something doesn’t mean you have any more rights or should have any more rights than anybody else.

So I have very clear views about what I want to see to kind of change the balance on the Supreme Court. And I regret deeply that the Senate has not done its job and they have not permitted a vote on the person that President Obama, a highly qualified person, they’ve not given him a vote to be able to be have the full complement of nine Supreme Court justices. I think that was a dereliction of duty.

I hope that they will see their way to doing it, but if I am so fortunate enough as to be president, I will immediately move to make sure that we fill that, we have nine justices that get to work on behalf of our people.

RADDATZ: Thank you, Secretary Clinton. Thank you. You’re out of time. Mr. Trump?

TRUMP: Justice Scalia, great judge, died recently. And we have a vacancy. I am looking to appoint judges very much in the mold of Justice Scalia. I’m looking for judges — and I’ve actually picked 20 of them so that people would see, highly respected, highly thought of, and actually very beautifully reviewed by just about everybody.

But people that will respect the Constitution of the United States. And I think that this is so important. Also, the Second Amendment, which is totally under siege by people like Hillary Clinton. They’ll respect the Second Amendment and what it stands for, what it represents. So important to me.

Now, Hillary mentioned something about contributions just so you understand. So I will have in my race more than $100 million put in — of my money, meaning I’m not taking all of this big money from all of these different corporations like she’s doing. What I ask is this.

So I’m putting in more than — by the time it’s finished, I’ll have more than $100 million invested. Pretty much self-funding money. We’re raising money for the Republican Party, and we’re doing tremendously on the small donations, $61 average or so.

I ask Hillary, why doesn’t — she made $250 million by being in office. She used the power of her office to make a lot of money. Why isn’t she funding, not for $100 million, but why don’t you put $10 million or $20 million or $25 million or $30 million into your own campaign?

It’s $30 million less for special interests that will tell you exactly what to do and it would really, I think, be a nice sign to the American public. Why aren’t you putting some money in? You have a lot of it. You’ve made a lot of it because of the fact that you’ve been in office. Made a lot of it while you were secretary of state, actually. So why aren’t you putting money into your own campaign? I’m just curious.

Clinton trying to defend being two faced

Clinton trying to defend being two faced

From the debate transcripts:

RADDATZ: Thank you, Mr. Trump. I want to move on. This next question from the public through the Bipartisan Open Debate Coalition’s online forum, where Americans submitted questions that generated millions of votes. This question involves WikiLeaks release of purported excerpts of Secretary Clinton’s paid speeches, which she has refused to release, and one line in particular, in which you, Secretary Clinton, purportedly say you need both a public and private position on certain issues. So, Tu (ph), from Virginia asks, is it OK for politicians to be two-faced? Is it acceptable for a politician to have a private stance on issues? Secretary Clinton, your two minutes.

CLINTON: Well, right. As I recall, that was something I said about Abraham Lincoln after having seen the wonderful Steven Spielberg movie called “Lincoln.” It was a master class watching President Lincoln get the Congress to approve the 13th Amendment. It was principled, and it was strategic.

And I was making the point that it is hard sometimes to get the Congress to do what you want to do and you have to keep working at it. And, yes, President Lincoln was trying to convince some people, he used some arguments, convincing other people, he used other arguments. That was a great — I thought a great display of presidential leadership.

TRUMP: Well, I think I should respond, because — so ridiculous. Look, now she’s blaming — she got caught in a total lie. Her papers went out to all her friends at the banks,Goldman Sachs and everybody else, and she said things — WikiLeaks that just came out. And she lied. Now she’s blaming the lie on the late, great Abraham Lincoln. That’s one that I haven’t…

(LAUGHTER)

OK, Honest Abe, Honest Abe never lied. That’s the good thing. That’s the big difference between Abraham Lincoln and you. That’s a big, big difference. We’re talking about some difference.

Transcript of Trump Smacking Hillary down when tape brought up

Transcript of Trump Smacking Hillary down when tape brought up

It was locker room talk, as I told you. That was locker room talk. I’m not proud of it. I am a person who has great respect for people, for my family, for the people of this country. And certainly, I’m not proud of it. But that was something that happened.

If you look at Bill Clinton, far worse. Mine are words, and his was action. His was what he’s done to women. There’s never been anybody in the history politics in this nation that’s been so abusive to women. So you can say any way you want to say it, but Bill Clinton was abusive to women.

Hillary Clinton attacked those same women and attacked them viciously. Four of them here tonight. One of the women, who is a wonderful woman, at 12 years old, was raped at 12. Her client she represented got him off, and she’s seen laughing on two separate occasions, laughing at the girl who was raped. Kathy Shelton, that young woman is here with us tonight.

So don’t tell me about words. I am absolutely — I apologize for those words. But it is things that people say. But what President Clinton did, he was impeached, he lost his license to practice law. He had to pay an $850,000 fine to one of the women. Paula Jones, who’s also here tonight.

And I will tell you that when Hillary brings up a point like that and she talks about words that I said 11 years ago, I think it’s disgraceful, and I think she should be ashamed of herself, if you want to know the truth.

(APPLAUSE)

If you are a middle income earner, you are paying for Obamacare for others!

If you are a middle income earner, you are paying for Obamacare for others!

One person's story - you decide!

I'm a 54 year old consulting engineer and make between $60,000 and $125,000 per year, depending on how hard I work and whether or not there are work projects out there for me.

My girlfriend is 61 and makes about $18,000 per year, working as a part-time mail clerk.

 For me, making $60,000 a year, under ObamaCare, the cheapest, lowest grade policy I can buy, which also happens to impose a $5,000 deductible, costs $482 per month.

For my girlfriend, the same exact policy, same deductible, costs $1 per month. That's right, $1 per month. I'm not making this up.

Don't believe me? Just go to http://www.coveredca.gov/ , the ObamaCare website for California and enter the parameters I've mentioned above and see for yourself. By the way, my zip code is 93940. You'll need to enter that.

So OK, clearly ObamaCare is a scheme that involves putting the cost burden of healthcare onto the middle and upper-income wage earners.

But there's a lot more to it. Stick with me.

And before I make my next points, I'd like you to think about something:

I live in Monterey County, in Central California. We have a large land mass but just 426,000 residents - about the population of Colorado Springs or the city of Omaha.

But we do have a large Hispanic population, including a large number of illegal aliens, and to serve this group we have Natividad Medical Center, a massive, Federally subsidized county medical complex that takes up an area about one-third the size of the Chrysler Corporation automobile assembly plant in Belvedere, Illinois (per Google Earth)

Natividad has state-of-the-art operating rooms, Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, fully equipped, 24 hour emergency room, and much more.

If you have no insurance, if you've been in a drive-by shooting or have overdosed on crack cocaine, this is where you go. And it's essentially free, because almost everyone who ends up in the ER is uninsured.

Last year, 2,735 babies were born at Natividad. 32% of these were born to out-of-wedlock teenage mothers, 93% of which were Hispanic.

 Less than 20% could demonstrate proof of citizenship, and 71% listed their native language as Spanish. Of these 876 births, only 40 were covered under [any kind of] private health insurance. The taxpayers paid for the other 836.

And in case you were wondering about the entire population - all 2,735 births - less than 24% involved insured coverage or even partial payment on behalf of the patient to the hospital in exchange for services. Keep this in mind as we move forward.

Now consider this:

 If I want to upgrade my policy to a low-deductible premium policy, such as what I had with my last employer, my cost is $886 per month.

But my girlfriend can upgrade her policy to the very same level, for just $4 per month.

That's right, $4 per month. $48 per year for a zero-deductible, premium healthcare policy - the kind of thing you get when you work at IBM (except of course, IBM employees pay an average of $170 per month out of pocket for their coverage).

I mean, it's bad enough that I will be forced to subsidize the ObamaCare scheme in the first place. But even if I agreed with the basic scheme, which of course I do not, I would never agree to subsidize premium policies.

If I have to pay $482 a month for a budget policy, I sure as hell do not want the guy I'm subsidizing to get a better policy, for less than 1% of what I have to fork out each month for a low-end policy.

Why must I pay $482 per month for something the other guy gets for a dollar?

And why should the other guy get to buy an $886 policy for $4 a month?

Think about this: I have to pay $10,632 a year for the same thing that the other guy can get for $48.

$10,000 of net income is 60 days of full time work as an engineer; $48 is something I could make collecting aluminum cans and plastic bottles, one day a month.

Are you with me on this? Are you starting to get an idea what ObamaCare is really about?

ObamaCare is not about dealing with inequities in the healthcare system. That's just the cover story.

The real story is that it is a massive, political power grab.

Do you think anyone who can insure himself with a premium policy for $4 a month will vote for anyone but the political party that provides him such a deal?

ObamaCare is about enabling, subsidizing, and expanding the Left's political power base, at taxpayer expense.

Why would I vote for anyone but a Democrat if I can have babies for $4 a month?

For that matter, why would I go to college or strive for a better job or income if it means I have to pay real money for healthcare coverage? Heck, why study engineering when I can be a schlub for $20K per year and buy a new F-150 with all the money I'm saving?

And think about those $4-a-month babies - think in terms of propagation models. Think of just how many babies will be born to irresponsible, under-educated mothers. Will we get a new crop of brain surgeons and particle physicists from the dollar baby club, or will we need more cops, criminal courts and prisons?

One thing you can be certain of: At $4 a month, they'll multiply, and multiply, and multiply.