Responding to Classmates #5

There is a lot of commotion about the upcoming election. America seems to be split between two particular candidates: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. I have recently read two different articles about the two of these candidates. I was interested to learn what my fellow voters had to say.

First I read “Micaela Moreau on Donald Trump” by Charles Casteel. He explains how “Mr. Trump has not released his official statement with his views on education”. This makes it difficult to understand what Trump plans on changing, or not changing, about the education in America. However, he did write about it in his book Crippled America stating that “The big problem is the federal government. There is no reason the federal government should profit from student loans. This only makes an already difficult problem worse. The Federal Student Loan Program turned a $41.3 billion profit in 2013” (Trump 59).

Next I read “Discovery of Hillary Clinton’s Detective Work” by Mya Carter. She tells us in her blog about the time Ms. Clinton went undercover “to establish whether the Dothan school was discriminating based on race”. I love how Mya explained to us the dedication Clinton put forth in this undercover project. She explained that “her investigation pushed her argument harder, for she really is devoted to repairing the school system. I will finish it off with a quote from her blog. She says “Clinton introduced something different to me, for I haven't read about a president or candidate pushing to the limit to actually lower themselves in order to face their issue head on”. I agree with Mya on this. It’s rare to find any person with a position with power to face the issues the people below them face.