美國新冠疫情日記08/17

The Democratic Convention Opens Today

The Democratic Party will host their convention today in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For the first time, most of the delegates will join the convention as a virtual meeting for next four days. In this historical and critical time, the convention is so important for our nation.

The coronavirus pandemic has brought big changes to all of our lives. For the Democratic party they have the biggest responsibility to our country.

Who will be the winner in the November 3rd election? There are four most important issues facing our society including social security. If we don’t adjust it now, we will be facing bankruptcy in 15 years. In other words, people retiring at age 65 then will get no benefit.

The immigration policy of this nation is based upon immigrants from all over the world. We are now facing big changes in the policy. Now the federal government is trying to cut back the quota of immigrants and that means many talented students will have no chance to stay in America after they graduate from college. We are going to lose a lot of educated immigrants if this happens.

On foreign policy, under President Trump’s insistence on the American First policy, we are continuing to withdraw our memberships from important global organizations. We hope this policy will be adjusted in the future.

The world still needs our leadership. Many countries and their people are still suffering greatly from the coronavirus. The economies of many countries have slowed down making it more difficult for them to survive. We as the richest country in the world still have a responsibility to rescue them.

The world is in turmoil. We can’t wait. A new leadership is so critical for us as well as for the whole world.

民主黨大會今天揭幕

根據新聞周刊最新民意調查，民主黨總統候選人拜登目前仍然領先川普總統九個百分點，民主黨大會今天在威士康辛州明瓦居市正式揭幕，來自全國數千上萬的代表將首次以視訊方式進行。

新冠疫情影響和改變了全國選民之政治和生活方式，更為此次大選帶來不可預測的變數。

今後誰是白宮主人將是關鍵性的影響，其中最重要的是美國社會福利、移民、稅收及外交政策四大主題。

長久以来，美國因為財政赤字，嚴重影晌社會安全之預算，如果不立即改善，可能會在十五年內破產，换言之，我們在六十五歲之後將無法領取退休金。

移民政策也將面臨嚴峻之考驗，由於共和黨政府在反移民及留住人才方面和民主黨主張不同，如果川普繼續執政，對移民配額及留學生畢業後之留美就業将會大量缩減，不過民主黨執政肯定會對高收入者扣更多的所得稅，才能救济更多弱勢及醫療公保制度之延續，在外交政策方面，川普主張之美國優先政策，导致美國會退出更多的國際組織，而拜登將繼續維持推動全球化之政策，是兩黨最大之區别。