Blog Post #5

"Hillary ​Clinton: Equal pay, problem-solving would be top priorities"

     This article discusses Hilary Clintons recent statements regarding her plans if she were to become president in the 2016 election. Her main focuses involve equal pay between the genders and joining the two parties together in order to accomplish more for our nation. Regarding her statements on equal pay she refers to Patricia Arquette's speech at the oscars on Gender equality and says "In so many ways, our economy still seems to be operating like its 1955,". She gave her opinion on the two competitive parties by stating "I'd like to bring people from right and left, red, blue, get them into a nice, warm, purple space where everybody is talking and where we're actually trying to solve problems. That would be my objective,".
     This relates to our class because it is a good example of the competing parties and the damage it is doing to our progress as a country as Hilary explained. I completely agree with both statements made, I think the two party system has turned our government into a competition and I think it's ridiculous that there still isn't economic equality between the sexes. I also think she should've discussed the wage gap between races in addition to gender, while the gender gap is finally being at least acknowledged, the racial wage gap is being completely ignored.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-equal-pay-problem-solving-would-be-top-priorities/