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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: CHIPS Act: Don't subsidize rich nor cut off trade with China

Q: What about U.S. companies like Nike & Apple doing business in China? If you were going to give advice to Apple, what would it be?

KENNEDY: Economic advice or patriotic advice?

Q: No, about doing business in China.

KENNEDY: I'm not somebody who thinks that we should divide the world. Government policy should be about fostering, developing, nurturing the middle class in this country. I don't think we should cut off trade with China. I think some of the things that are being done for example, the programs to bring semiconductor--

Q: The CHIPS Act.

KENNEDY: In the CHIPS Act, I don't like the fact that we're getting subsidies to the richest companies in the world. I'd like to see more trying to bring the industry to home. I don't think we should be rattling the sabers with China.

[Wikipedia: The CHIPS and Science Act, signed into law in 2022, provides roughly $280 billion in new funding to boost domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors in the United States.]

Source: CNBC "Last Call" interview with 2023 Presidential hopefuls Aug 30, 2023

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Podcasts allow deplatformed candidates to reach voters

RFK's super PAC, American Values 2024, has raised close to $6 million. The super PAC has taken out ads in newspapers, promising that Kennedy will "take back your country," but is still figuring out how to use social media to promote a candidate who has been deplatformed in the past for spreading medical misinformation. "Running for President makes it much more difficult for people to censor me," says Kennedy.

The strategy that allies have landed on is to focus on podcasts and alternative media. Kennedy believes the 2024 election could be "decided by podcasts," and he intends to use them to full advantage. "In the same way that my uncle realized that television was a good medium for him in 1960, and Trump discovered that he could communicate with these large groups of people on Twitter in 2016," Kennedy says, "I think podcasts are a good medium for me."

Source: Time maagazine "Very Online" on 2023 Presidential hopefuls Jun 14, 2023

Joe Biden: Working with world leaders to strengthen rules on AI

Emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, hold both enormous potential and enormous peril. We need to be sure they are used as tools of opportunity, not as weapons of oppression. Together with leaders around the world, the United States is working to strengthen rules and policies so AI technologies are safe before they are released to the public; to make sure we govern this technology--not the other way around, having it govern us. Source: Speech to the United Nations (2023 presidential hopefuls) Sep 19, 2023

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Many illnesses caused by vaccines & 5G wireless technology

in the 2000s, he turned his attention to vaccines after being contacted by parents who claimed their children had been injured by them. Kennedy "went down a wormhole," as he put it to his biographer. He reconsidered his son's peanut allergies and his experience as a summer-camp counselor. ("I never saw anybody with autism," he says.)

He joined a struggling nonprofit called the World Mercury Project in 2016 and rebranded it as Children's Health Defense, which became one of the country's largest anti-vaccination advocacy groups. It falsely claims that a variety of childhood illnesses are being caused by the ingredients in vaccines, as well as fluoride, acetaminophen, and 5G wireless technology. Kennedy gave speeches, wrote articles, and produced videos claiming that vaccines were "making our children dumber and giving them injuries." He saw the ensuing criticism from scientists and public-health agencies as confirmation that he was right.

Source: Time magazine "Very Online" on 2023 Presidential hopefulss Jun 14, 2023

The above quotations are from Interviews and analysis of presidential primary hopefuls during 2023. Click here for definitions & background information on Technology. Click here for other issues (main summary page). Click here for more quotes by Joe Biden on Technology. Click here for more quotes by Donald Trump on Technology.
*2024 Presidential contenders on Technology:*
	*Candidates for President & Vice-President:* V.P.Kamala Harris (D-CA) Robert F. Kennedy Jr.(I-CA) Chase Oliver(L-GA) Dr.Jill Stein(D-MA) Former Pres.Donald Trump(R-FL) Sen.J.D.Vance(R-OH) Gov.Tim Walz(D-MN) Dr.Cornel West(I-NJ)	*2024 presidential primary contenders:* Pres.Joe_Biden(D-DE) N.D.Gov.Doug Burgum(R) N.J.Gov.Chris_Christie(R) Fla.Gov.Ron_DeSantis(R) S.C.Gov.Nikki_Haley(R) Ark.Gov.Asa_Hutchinson(R) Former V.P.Mike Pence(R-IN) U.S.Rep.Dean_Phillips(D-MN) Vivek_Ramaswamy(R-OH) S.C.Sen.Tim_Scott(R)
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