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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Fri May 13, 2016, 02:51 PM May 2016

Hillary Clinton Thinks the US Is Great. Why Don't You?

Hillary Clinton thinks she has the perfect comeback to Donald Trump's slogan "Make America Great Again."

Using a debating technique popular on playgrounds across the country -- the same one responsible for zingers like "That's what you are, but what am I?" -- the Clinton campaign is producing baseball hats emblazoned with the words "America Is Already Great."

If "America is already great," it has a funny way of showing it to the massive number of US workers who struggle in various ways each day -- the 15 million workers who have jobs, but get by on $10 an hour or less; the 7.4 million homeowners who are "seriously" underwater on their mortgages; the 31 million people who go without health care because they can't afford the expense.

But that isn't what Clinton has in mind. For her, for the Democratic Party establishment and for the corporate rulers they represent, America is great. Really great.

For them, the Great Recession is part of the past -- corporate profits, Wall Street gambling and skyrocketing CEO compensation haven't just recovered, but are flourishing like never before. Plus, they have a political representative they can count on poised to win the White House: Hillary Clinton.

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http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/36027-hillary-thinks-the-us-great-why-don-t-you

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JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
2. If "struggle" is the benchmark for greatness...
Fri May 13, 2016, 02:54 PM
May 2016

Then everywhere in the world sucks, but America sucks less.

Make sense?

Autumn

(44,743 posts)
4. Both of them only consider the America they are a part of.
Fri May 13, 2016, 03:03 PM
May 2016

Clueless 1% idiots with their meaningless throwaway slogans.

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
5. I can't think of a single other country I would rather live.
Fri May 13, 2016, 03:06 PM
May 2016

But that's not to say the U.S. doesn't have a lot of room for improvement.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
6. I work for a living and play by the rules.
Fri May 13, 2016, 03:09 PM
May 2016

Which puts me at a competitive disadvantage in a nation where those who don't get ahead.

 

imagine2015

(2,054 posts)
7. It is great if you're not part of the working class. Corporate CEO's and Wall Streeters love America
Fri May 13, 2016, 03:11 PM
May 2016
AND LONG MAY IT WAVE



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