Former President visits Monmouth in support of Hillary Clinton
Jeffrey Sawyer and Ashley Erb
Issue date: 5/2/08 Section: Headlines
In hopes of relieving this "American nightmare", Clinton spoke about Sen. Clinton's plan for universalizing health care through cutting administrative costs and lowering the amount citizens pay in insurance premiums.
"Health care costs have doubled in the past seven years. If we do it again, you can't bring back the middle class." Clinton cited no need for these increasing costs.
"We are the only wealthy country in the world that doesn't treat all people and we spend 50 percent more than any other country [on health care]."
Clinton's proposal for further alleviating America's economic woes tied directly into Sen. Clinton's plan for energy independence. Clinton said that Americans need immediate relief from the rising costs at the pumps. Clinton stated that a short term relief solution to the rising fuel costs would be to release more oil from strategic reserves, suspend the federal gas tax, and have the Federal Trade Commission conduct an investigation of oil companies and price gouging. Clinton said that if these changes happen, Americans would be able to use the money they are spending at the pumps elsewhere, thus boosting the economy.
In addition to relieving prices at the pumps, Clinton said that Sen. Clinton's plan for adopting and requiring sustainable energy practices would help create more jobs.
"By training and paying experts to make buildings across the country more energy efficient we will create jobs and find energy efficient solutions," he said. He also made the claim that these jobs "can't be outsourced." According to Clinton, each state would get an allocation of federal money to spend on these green upgrades.
Clinton also outlined Sen. Clinton's plan to improve education. He said that Sen. Clinton wanted to implement free universal pre-kindergarten and wants to change nearly everything in the No Child Left Behind Act.
"There is an achievement gap when kids in this country hit grades 8-11 when compared to other rich countries," said Clinton. "This has nothing to do with capacity, children in other countries start school sooner, spend more time in school each year and they pay their educators more."
"Health care costs have doubled in the past seven years. If we do it again, you can't bring back the middle class." Clinton cited no need for these increasing costs.
"We are the only wealthy country in the world that doesn't treat all people and we spend 50 percent more than any other country [on health care]."
Clinton's proposal for further alleviating America's economic woes tied directly into Sen. Clinton's plan for energy independence. Clinton said that Americans need immediate relief from the rising costs at the pumps. Clinton stated that a short term relief solution to the rising fuel costs would be to release more oil from strategic reserves, suspend the federal gas tax, and have the Federal Trade Commission conduct an investigation of oil companies and price gouging. Clinton said that if these changes happen, Americans would be able to use the money they are spending at the pumps elsewhere, thus boosting the economy.
In addition to relieving prices at the pumps, Clinton said that Sen. Clinton's plan for adopting and requiring sustainable energy practices would help create more jobs.
"By training and paying experts to make buildings across the country more energy efficient we will create jobs and find energy efficient solutions," he said. He also made the claim that these jobs "can't be outsourced." According to Clinton, each state would get an allocation of federal money to spend on these green upgrades.
Clinton also outlined Sen. Clinton's plan to improve education. He said that Sen. Clinton wanted to implement free universal pre-kindergarten and wants to change nearly everything in the No Child Left Behind Act.
"There is an achievement gap when kids in this country hit grades 8-11 when compared to other rich countries," said Clinton. "This has nothing to do with capacity, children in other countries start school sooner, spend more time in school each year and they pay their educators more."
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