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<p>Pennsylvania&#8217;s senior citizens are worried, and they have every right to be.</p><p>Eight years of the Obama-Clinton economy have left many of our seniors without jobs, but with higher taxes and more uncertainty about their health care than ever before.</p><p>This election will set the tone for how well our seniors will live going forward. After almost eight years of failing economic policies, more and more people fear that they will never be able to retire.</p><p>If Hillary Clinton is elected, that fear will become a reality.</p><p>Make no mistake about it: Hillary Clinton is running to continue the status quo in Washington.</p><p>Just look at the facts: More Pennsylvanians are living on food stamps since President Barack Obama took office. Fewer Pennsylvanians own their homes, and the National Association of Counties found that none of this state&#8217;s 67 counties have fully recovered from the Great Recession.</p><p>The policies that Clinton worked with President Obama to implement have led to the slowest economic recovery since World War II. The Obama-Clinton economic strategy has created the lowest workforce involvement in more than 30 years. The list goes on and on.</p><p>Despite of that overwhelming evidence, Clinton has the audacity to give President Obama an &#8220;A&#8221; for his handling of the economy. Clearly, she does not understand what it&#8217;s like to be an average Pennsylvanian.</p><p>The Obama-Clinton economy has made it harder for people to plan for retirement, and harder for Americans who already have retired to be sure that the Social Security they were promised will continue to come.</p><p>Donald Trump will bring change to the White House.</p><p>Unlike Clinton, Republican presidential nominee Trump will create an atmosphere that will allow for jobs to be created, which will increase the economic security of those people approaching retirement, and those who already have retired.</p><p>Under a Trump presidency, more than 25 million new jobs will be created. This will allow people who have been forced out of the labor pool to begin to find work again, and be able to earn a living and save for their retirements.</p><p>Along with the benefit to those workers and the families they support, these newly created jobs will increase the security of Americans who have retired, as they will know that their Social Security checks will continue to come.</p><p>Trump understands what it will take to turn around the failed policies of the Obama-Clinton agenda, and will put real change in the White House.</p><p>These changes will help our seniors by creating an atmosphere in which their investments in retirement are protected. As the economy grows, the returns on their investments will grow with it.</p><p>As more and more people buy houses, their property values will increase as well, providing more security for their futures.</p><p>As incomes rise, seniors will have the peace of mind that their children, and grandchildren, will be able to provide for themselves and their families.</p><p>Democrats recognize that their policies are hurting seniors, so they&#8217;ve resorted to awful and untrue scare tactics about Social Security and Medicare. Let me be very clear: Donald Trump will not touch seniors&#8217; Social Security or Medicare, and any attempt to say otherwise is simply false.</p><p>If Clinton is elected, the White House will continue down the path it is headed, a path that will continue to see the special interests that have donated to her campaign, and to her family foundation, continue to get richer and richer off of our taxpayer dollars, while the rest of America has to compete for fewer and fewer jobs.</p><p>Donald Trump will make America great again, for everybody, including our seniors.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>Ron Ferrance</p><p>Guest columnist</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Ron Ferrance is chairman of the Luzerne County Republican Party. He lives in Hanover Township.</p></shirttailMeta></div>

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