美国新冠疫情日记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.

民主党大会今天揭幕

根据新闻周刊最新民意调查，民主党总统候选人拜登目前仍然领先川普总统九个百分点，民主党大会今天在威士康辛州明瓦居市正式揭幕，来自全国数千上万的代表将首次以视讯方式进行。

新冠疫情影响和改变了全国选民之政治和生活方式，更為此次大选带来不可预测的变数。

今后谁是白宫主人将是关键性的影响，其中最重要的是美国社会福利、移民、税收及外交政策四大主题。

长久以来，美国因為财政赤字，严重影晌社会安全之预算，如果不立即改善，可能会在十五年内破產，换言之，我们在六十五岁之后将无法领取退休金。

移民政策也将面临严峻之考验，由於共和党政府在反移民及留住人才方面和民主党主张不同，如果川普继续执政，对移民配额及留学生毕业后之留美就业将会大量缩减，不过民主党执政肯定会对高收入者扣更多的所得税，才能救济更多弱势及医疗公保制度之延续，在外交政策方面，川普主张之美国优先政策，导致美国会退出更多的国际组织，而拜登将继续维持推动全球化之政策，是两党最大之区别。