Joe Conason - Plutocrat Or Populist? Actually, Hillary Clinton Is Neither
This is posted in the HILLARY CLINTON group.
A good and rational article by Conason. Use it!
http://www.nationalmemo.com/plutocrat-populist-actually-hillary-clinton-neither/
snips from the article:
So far her popularity has remained remarkably durable – but the constant effort to sow confusion about her sympathies, positions, and policies, especially on economic issues, still deserves rebuttal.
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Now, as she speaks out on economic issues during the midterm campaign, she is portrayed as “copying” the “populist, anti-corporate rhetoric” of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), courageous scourge of crooked bankers and financial fraudsters.
But the truth about Hillary’s economic outlook is both simpler and more complex.
The simple part is that for her entire public career, Clinton has been a consistent advocate for working families and the middle class — notably on issues like the minimum wage, which she fought to raise as a senator. She sponsored legislation not only to raise the wage, repeatedly, but demanded a ban on congressional and executive pay increases until workers’ wages went up first.
During her Senate career and then as a Democratic presidential candidate, Clinton told everyone who would listen what she thought about questions of fairness, inequality, and growth that remain central today. She dismissed the idea that higher minimum wages damage growth and employment; she demanded restoration of the traditional balance between government and markets, which had tipped too much toward corporate power; she blasted the Bush administration’s cuts in assistance to the poor and unemployed; and she urged, above all, that the forces destroying the middle class must be restrained and ultimately reversed.
Please go to the link to read the rest. It's a short article.
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