{"id":90392,"date":"2019-08-02T17:36:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T00:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=90392"},"modified":"2019-08-02T17:36:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T00:36:44","slug":"we-need-unity-and-diplomacy-to-counter-war-and-climate-change-tulsi-gabbard-briefs-ethnic-media-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/we-need-unity-and-diplomacy-to-counter-war-and-climate-change-tulsi-gabbard-briefs-ethnic-media-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Yang Brings Presidential Campaign to Ethnic Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Above):<\/strong> Andrew Yang became the first presidential candidate to participate in a teleconference with ethnic media reporters, organized by Ethnic Media Services. (EMS)<\/em><\/p>\n

On July 23, Andrew Yang became the first presidential candidate to participate in a teleconference with ethnic media reporters, organized by Ethnic Media Services.<\/p>\n

Pleased to be offered a bubble tea as he sat down at a dais, Yang greeted about four dozen ethnic media representatives by noting how his own parents, after immigrating to the United States, had relied on Chinese newspapers for news and loved watching Chinese television as they raised their two sons.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m an entrepreneur, not a politician, he said as he introduced himself. Before deciding to run for president, he spent the past seven years, \u201ccreating thousands of jobs in Ohio, Michigan and Alabama \u2026 but it was like pouring water into a hole in the bathtub,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

\u201cTechnology is transforming our way of life,\u201d he remarked, and \u201cour political system in America is way behind the times in understanding technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yang was queried repeatedly about his position on immigration issues. Emphasizing the contributions immigrants, including his own family, make to the U.S. economy, he cited his own father\u2019s 65 patents for General Motors and IBM and the proliferation of immigrant and second-generation leaders in upper corporate echelons in Silicon Valley as examples of how immigrants make the country \u201cstronger and more dynamic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy immigration policy,\u201d he said, \u201chas a number of facets.\u201d Among them would be to \u201cgreatly expand\u201d the H1-B visa program, which he said, \u201chas zero crowding-out effect on American workers.\u201d<\/p>\n

If companies couldn\u2019t hire the people who obtain those visas in the United States, he said, they would hire them in another country.\u201d<\/p>\n

For those who come to the United States to get an education, \u201cwe should staple a green card to their diplomas. We should get them to stay,\u201d he added<\/p>\n

Immigrants don\u2019t cost U.S. citizens jobs. It\u2019s automation and technology that are driving the transformation, he explained, and Washington politicians who aren\u2019t up to the challenges of changing with the times, he maintained.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead to the next Democratic candidate debate, July 30 and 31 in Detroit, he described that city, where he worked for nine years, as an archetypal example of the transformations buffeting U.S. society, and the government\u2019s inability to navigate a changing world.<\/p>\n

Detroit, he said, has gone from a city of 1.7 million people to 680,000 as it\u2019s lost hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs due to automation. Current retraining programs, are ineffective with a success rate of 15-20%, leaving us instead with record levels of disability, suicide and overdose rates that for the first time have overtaken vehicular accidents as the country\u2019s leading cause of death.<\/p>\n

He also advocated for \u201csecuring the southern border,\u201d to \u201cput resources in place so there\u2019s a humane policy\u201d and to \u201ccreate a new path forward\u201d for 12 million undocumented immigrants already in the country \u2013 too many to be deported without crashing the economy. In response to another question, he added that the U.S. should \u201cof course\u201d do what it can to ease the pressures in nearby countries that force people to take their chances on emigrating to the U.S.<\/p>\n

Yang\u2019s campaign is perhaps best known for his \u201cFreedom Dividend\u201d proposal to guarantee U.S. adults a monthly $1,000 stipend per month. In response to a reporter who questioned the possibility that the concept might seem too \u201ccommunist\u201d for American voters, Yang responded that the money would be funded through a tax on corporations such as Amazon that currently do not pay taxes despite being \u201da trillion dollar company.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Americans get our fair share, there\u2019s lots to go around,\u201d he said. Furthermore, he argued that $1,000 per month would hardly be a disincentive to work, but would allow new mothers to tend to their children, teenagers to stay in school and boost the economy and create jobs by putting more disposable income into circulation.<\/p>\n

The GOP-dominated state of Alaska, he said, already has such a program, passed by a Republican governor in a very pro-market, pro-business political climate. He also cited JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimond\u2019s recent advocacy for \u201csomething similar,\u201d a negative income tax, Yang said, commenting with a chuckle that Dimond is \u201cnot very communist, or socialist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked about climate change, he described it as \u201can existential threat\u201d and said the government \u201cneeds to do much more.\u201d Too often, he said, the government acts merely \u201cafter the fact\u201d of a disaster and instead \u201cneeds to be engaged in making communities more resilient.\u201d As an example, he said that the National Parks System invests about 5% of what experts believe should be dedicated to tending its lands, leading to wildfires quickly burning out of control.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe federal government is the natural leader,\u201d he said, and disasters such as the Pasadena Fire could be prevented \u201cif we provided better resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yang cited an interview he\u2019d done that has been viewed or listened to a combined 10 million times in various social media platforms as a transformative moment in his campaign so far, although he said at the outset of the conference call that he acknowledges only ranking \u201cseventh or eighth\u201d among the candidates so far. That interview can be seen here<\/a>(https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cTsEzmFamZ8<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Yang said politics is an unusual career path for his culture, but he\u2019s proud to be the first Asian American to run for president as a Democrat and suggested that his campaign will counter fears generated by the rise of racism and hate in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Above): Andrew Yang became the first presidential candidate to participate in a teleconference with ethnic media reporters, organized by Ethnic Media Services. (EMS) On July 23, Andrew Yang became the first presidential candidate to participate in a teleconference with ethnic media reporters, organized by Ethnic Media Services. Pleased to be offered a bubble tea as…<\/p>\n

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