I believe Bernie is one who passionately cares

[G_j]

about poverty/hunger/homelessness, enough to do everything he possibly can to address it. He is the voice for the poor.

just sayin'..

[Demsrule86]

1. It is hard to believe that

When he goes on TV and to smears the Democratic nominee...Hillary Clinton. I used to like and respect him...voted for him in Ohio. Now, I wish I could take it back.

[seabeyond]

2. Clinton was out on the streets for decades addressing it. Sanders talked about it.

I will give to both, that they care about this issue, and who the Democratic party is.

[G_j]

3. not sure what you mean, out on the streets

I'm not saying HRC doesn't care. But I just think these issues have been central for Bernie throughout his career.

[seabeyond]

7. Clinton has spent a lifetime working on these issues.

Sec. Clinton launched multiple public and private sector initiatives to raise the status of girls and promote girls’ education around the world. Sec. Clinton started the TechGirls classroom exchange program to increase the number of girls entering the tech field. Under Sec. Clinton, the State Department partnered with the NGO Room to Read to support girls from South Asia who were at risk of dropping out of school. Sec. Clinton introduced the Empowering Adolescent Girls to Lead through Education (EAGLE) initiative, emphasizing leadership training and reducing barriers for girls to attend secondary school. Sec. Clinton launched the Secretary’s International Fund for Women and Girls to invest in improvements to education, health, and economic opportunities. Sec. Clinton’s State Department sponsored teacher exchange programs focused on education for girls. Sec. Clinton initiated a study with UNESCO on “education for women and girls around the world.” Sec. Clinton launched a partnership with the Abbott Fund “to invest one million dollars in the health and education” of women and girls. The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program committed $39 million to support secondary education to disadvantaged girls in Ghana and Uganda. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation committed $10 million to improve participation in education for marginalized girls. A collaborative effort by “the MacArthur Foundation, The MasterCard Foundation, the Douglas B. Marshall Jr. Family Foundation and two anonymous donors” awarded $6 million to support secondary education initiatives.

Kennedy said of the SCHIP program "The children’s health program wouldn’t be in existence today if we didn’t have Hillary pushing for it from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue."

Some more things:
+the cease fire she brokered between Hamas and Israel,
+the increase that she authored to the FMLA that was rolled into the defense reauthorization of 2008.
+the coverage she got with her old enemy Lindsay Graham for National Guard reservists and retirees http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9063246/ns/po ... sDt4XldHIU
+she was on the advisory committee to President Obama that led to the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
+http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/us/politics/how-hillary-clinton-went-undercover-to-examine-race-in-education.html?_r=1
When she was 24, the children's defense fund sent her undercover to investigate segregation in Alabama schools.

◾Helped found Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a group dedicated to the betterment of children’s lives by advocating for their health, well-being, and education.
◾Attorney at the Children’s Defense Fund leveling the playing field for children
◾Director of Legal Aid Clinic at the University of Arkansas School of Law
◾Created Arkansas’s Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth because she saw a need for educating young children. Bringing HIPPY to Arkansas enabled parents to be their child’s first teacher and prepare them for a life of learning.
◾Declared to the United Nations that “women’s rights are human rights” which at the time she said it, was a very big deal
◾Commissioner on the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
◾With Chuck Schumer, secured $21 billion in funding for the World Trade Center site’s redevelopment

◾“Played a leading role in creation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act and the Foster Care Independence Act”
◾Successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health
◾Helped investigate the affects of Gulf War Syndrome of the Veterans afflicted
◾Created the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice
◾Initiated and helped guide the Adoption and Safe Families Act helping in children in foster care move faster in to permanent homes

[rhett o rick]

8. She spent a lot of time raking in the gold. $150 million and counting. That takes some effort.

[seabeyond]

16. That is nasty in the face of all she has done.

[Hiraeth]

22. it might be nasty but, can you deny the truth of it.

[ViseGrip]

4. Bernie Sanders absolutely cares...

[PeaceNikki]

5. That's ridiculous.

Hillary Clinton has given $17.6 million of her speaking fees to charity. That’s 26 times as much as she made on her three Goldman Sachs speeches combined, or 50% more than she made on her 51 speeches in 2014 and 2015.

According to the Washington Post, Bill Clinton has contributed speaking fees to their foundation 73 times and Hillary Clinton 15 times.

Contrary to what you may have heard, their foundation is highly efficient with only 11% overhead, and has provided $2,000 million dollars to the poor and needy.

Their foundation projects include training African farmers to get access to seeds, equipment and markets for their crops, reforestation projects in Africa and the Caribbean, renewable energy projects in island nations, and work to lower the cost of HIV/AIDS medicine and scale up pediatric AIDS treatment. And here’s a picture from Oakland from the Clinton Foundation’s “Too Small to Fail” project.



http://zfacts.com/2016/02/clinton-speaking-fees/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/06/19/fact-check-clinton-foundation-money/28977319/


Yeah, I believe Sanders is a good man who would fight to end poverty, but he certainly isn't the only one in the Democratic primary who would. That's rubbish.

[Jitter65]

6. ++1Million!

[rhett o rick]

9. LOL. She gave the money to "charity" via her Foundation so she got tax breaks.

And eventually she will go to work for that Foundation and "earn" all that money back.

[fun n serious]

11. What charity has Bernie helped?

Which POOR has he actually helped. Rhetoric aside.

[rhett o rick]

12. If you want to do some research and then have something to say, please come back.

But I don't answer your insinuating questions. The Clintons have amassed over $150 million for their own personal fortune.

[fun n serious]

17. So what?

Give me 8 years LONG FORM and we'll talk.

[Zynx]

13. You lose money by donating money to charity.

The tax break is your marginal rate x the contribution. You still are out cash.

[rhett o rick]

14. She gave the money to her retirement fund. She and Bill will eventually draw large salaries

from "working" for the Foundation.

[PeaceNikki]

18. 11% overhead. The Clinton Foundation has helped millions worldwide.

It's gross that you dismiss actual contributions.

Again, I believe Sanders is a good man who would fight to end poverty, but he certainly isn't the only one in the Democratic primary who would. That's hogwash.

[rhett o rick]

19. I am not saying that the Foundation hasn't done good work.

But what's stopping Bill and Hillary from taking a salary. Doesn't Chelsea draw a salary?

I don't doubt that H. Clinton won't try to help the poor but she will use money from the working class to do it. The growing wealth gap is putting a lot of pressure on the lower classes to support the safety nets. The Clintons have made a lot of effort to build their own personal wealth and I don't think they are done. Since they get the cash from those that are stealing from the poor, I see a conflict of interest.

[fun n serious]

10. I don't. nt

[Uncle Joe]

15. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, G_j.

[johnp3907]

21. He's a fraud.

A Narodnik masquerading as a Socialist. A career politician who says he's not part of "the Establishment."

[Hiraeth]

23. okay ...

damned with faint praise ...