Hillary Clinton’s new book, What Happened shows she is completely out of touch with reality and voter’s anxieties over the economic policies that have redistributed trillions of dollars from the 99 to the 1 percent. These policies were championed by her, former President Bill Clinton, former President Barack Obama, former President George W. Bush, and a host of other Republicans and Democrats, such as Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and Wall Street’s favorite brown-noser, Wall Street Senator Ron Wyden.
In her book, Clinton blames Bernie Sanders for her defeat in the presidential election. She claims Sanders candidacy split the progressive vote. Hogwash! Hillary lost the presidential election because she is a gold plated pawn of Wall Street. Voters were tired of their jobs and tax dollars being exported to Mexico, China, and Vietnam. Clinton supported the policies that did this. Wall Street loved her support for these policies.
The CEOs of Wall Street, other major corporations, and billionaire investors rewarded her and her husband with $150 million in speaking fees from 2001 to 2016, at $225,000 a pop. Progressive voters knew that yes big money had gotten her to change her mind on legislation cutting back on the abilities of working folks to declare bankruptcy on behalf of the big banks who had purchased her lock, stock and barrel (See video above). Progressives knew the mind boggling millions of jobs that would have been exported from the United States to China with the Trans Pacific Partnership, which she called the “gold plated standard” for trade agreements. Then, of course, there was her support as Secretary of State for the coup that overthrew the lawful government of Honduras and resulted in the death of hundreds. You could go on and on about why progressives could not and would not support Candidate Clinton, but you cannot blame Bernie Sanders.
Hillary is completely out of touch with reality, but the book suggests she might want to run for president again.
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The election of Donald Trump was one part luck and twelve parts dissatisfaction with the status quo. Think about how dissatisfied this still quite racist country needed to be to elect a Black man as president. But during Barack Obama’s eight years, the status quo prevailed: no change and no hope for change. I did not vote for Secty. Clinton (or Donald Trump) because I am not satisfied by the current neoliberal idiots in charge of our government.
Hillary Clinton got a majority of the votes but didn’t get the votes in the right places which was a failure of her campaign, not some outside influence. And, just how hard to she work to curry favor with Bernie’s millions? Did she adopt any of his policy recommendations? Anything? If Mrs. Clinton wants to see the source of her failure, she only need look in a mirror. A smart politician would have taken Bernie on as VP, co-opted all of his ideas and then did whatever she damned well wanted once elected, just like every other president in history.
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Progressives blaming off-shoring & out-sourcing for the loss of manufacturing jobs is just like conservatives blaming it on illegal immigrants. Convenient whipping boys, but not reality-based. During a 40-year career in high tech industry, I was an observer of the trend of technology and automation eliminating entire professions. This is not retrospection. I observed and commented to friends about it at the time.
http://www.heritage.org/jobs-and-labor/report/technology-explains-drop-manufacturing-jobs
https://www.automationworld.com/article/industries/semiconductors/outsourcing-not-culprit-manufacturing-job-loss
Get back to me when you have some FACTS to go along with all the gut-level emotion.
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Well Tom, you can start with these facts offered by the following study http://www.epi.org/publication/the-zombie-robot-argument-lurches-on-there-is-no-evidence-that-automation-leads-to-joblessness-or-inequality/. Geez, I haven’t heard anybody in China, Vietnam or Mexico complain that automation has wiped out their jobs. Oh right! Their jobs used to be ours. You know jobs with Rexnord Corporation, which is closing down its Indianapolis factory and exporting its 295 jobs to Mexico. Automation did not kill those jobs. Or how about the 632 Indianapolis jobs the Carrier Corporation’s parent company United Technologies exported to Mexico beginning this year? Or how the 700 jobs United Technologies also exported to Mexico from Huntington Indiana last year? All thanks to Bill Clinton. And the list of jobs exported is very long. Now with the information I am providing, you should have your facts straight.
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