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Nasty Jack

(350 posts)
Fri May 22, 2015, 12:57 PM May 2015

Bernie Sanders Says...Hillary Clinton Does

On May 6, Bernie Sanders introduced a bill in Congress to break up the nation's biggest banks. On May 19, in Cedar Falls, IA, Hillary Clinton said she wants one thing to be crystal clear: she is not afraid to stand up to Wall Street. Sanders makes his case that if they are too big to fail and they do, they will bring the American economy down with it and we've already bailed these monsters out once. Here's a quote from Huff Post:

"There are 45 million people living in poverty and we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on earth. Half of the American people have less than $10,000 in savings and have no idea how they will retire with dignity. Real unemployment is not 5.5 percent - it's close to 11 percent." Hillary said on CNN, "It's not the big banks that need relief from Washington -- it's small banks and small businesses. We should be doing more to rein in risky behavior on Wall Street and 'Too Big to Fail.'" But Alternet recently reported, "Bill Clinton did not become president without sharing the friendships, associations, and ideologies of the elite banking sect, nor will Hillary Clinton."


Either Bernie Sanders is bringing Hillary Clinton more to the left or Clinton is simply appeasing potential Progressive voters to win the primary. However, in the case of Bernie sanders' candidacy we know where he will stand when elected. He has maintained this same position for all of his congressional tenure.

Nasty Jack
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NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
3. Well, this is like the third time Sanders has come out with a plan and Hillary has copied it.
Fri May 22, 2015, 01:04 PM
May 2015

It's as if she has hundreds of specialists looking at the meeting and crafting her responses.

It won't help, she's going to lose. She is going to collapse under the weight of her own ego.

What's more, she doesn't give a shit about regular people, at least not enough to stop promoting global businesses.

People are hurting, she's laughing.

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NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
5. Fair warning, you're in the Bernie Sanders group.
Fri May 22, 2015, 01:17 PM
May 2015

I'm not going to block you but other hosts might, just wanted to point that out in case you didn't realize you were posting in this group.

That's happened to me.

Anyway, just looking at these last few weeks, and some of it has been coincidental, but Sanders has said something or proposed legislation and then Hillary issues a Tweet or some damned thing.

Now if we go back and look at all her jabber over time, she's probably said everything under the sun, she's for the TPP, she's against it, she's for this then she's against it.

It wouldn't surprise me if one could find a statement by her about anything.

The difference is in the bills Sanders has written versus what Hillary authored while in congress.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
7. He can't bring anyone to a place they have not been in. But he can force them to at least
Fri May 22, 2015, 06:23 PM
May 2015

talk as if they are on the Left.

But then again, don't the experts tell us that the country is NOT 'left'? Lol, we'll see now that we have someone who genuinely represents the majority of Americans.

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