Enough about Hillary's negatives

[JDPriestly]

91. It's what is not on that long, long, detailed list that turns me off to a Hillary candidacy.

Other than health care access and child care, not much that she has done concerns improving the economic picture for America's middle class. And remember, wages have not risen adequately in at least 30, probably more years. So the middle class was in decline when Bill Clinton was president. And what did he do about it? He signed NAFTA (which you say she opposed), but the TPP was mostly negotiated during her time as Secretary of State. (And let's don't forget the recommendation her State Department made for the Keystone Pipeline.)

Supporting the extensions of unemployment insurance is good, but those were not very strong measures, didn't forestall or put an end to foreclosures. I don't recall her proposing really strong measures to support the financial disaster that the middle class suffered after the 2008 crisis.

She did a lot for disaster relief in lower Manhattan, and that is good, but she was responding to an event, not leading a movement to fight for the middle class.

About the only thing she has done that is relevant to the issue of the decline of the middle class (which was already underway when Bill Clinton was president) is this:

"She persuaded Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to convene a meeting of corporate CEOs for their advice on how companies could be persuaded to adopt better child care measures for working families."

It's a long list, but it only shows that Hillary Clinton did not have the foresight to put the economic issues of the American working and middle classes at the top of her to do lists.

It's only impressive if you don't care much about the horrible losses of jobs and economic hope in the US in recent years.