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Rita F. Silva: Hillary victory would drive America into a socialist recession

If Hillary Clinton wins the election, Republicans will still be able to pass all the laws they want. If they donate a few million to the Clinton Foundation, President Hillary will sign the bills into law. Just look at her past record as Secretary of State. People and countries donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation and received favors in return.

If she wins, it will be a third term for Obama, who has been a disaster for America. If things are so good, why has our national debt gone from $10 trillion to $19 trillion dollars, the number of people on welfare doubled and, according to employees at two local stores, at least 70 percent of the food they sell is paid for with food stamps? Our labor participation rate is the lowest in 40 years, and please don’t insult our intelligence by blaming Bush. It has been almost eight years since he left office. Our borders are still porous and terrorist attacks are escalating.

America needs a change and Hillary Clinton is not it. If she wins, America will go into another recession, as all socialist countries do.

Rita F. Silva, Los Banos

This story was originally published September 22, 2016 at 12:31 PM with the headline "Rita F. Silva: Hillary victory would drive America into a socialist recession."

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