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13. Trimming entitlements and a consensus on income inequality.

Hillary last October on trimming entitlements

Leading liberal groups are watching closely to see if Clinton will join their charge of expanding entitlements. Last year, she even appeared to flirt with supporting the idea of trimming entitlements to attain a grand budget bargain. Speaking at Colgate University last October, she said:

"What has worked is a compromise where yes, we raise revenues for a certain period, we go and look at entitlements to see what is fair and can be done without really disadvantaging either existing beneficiaries or people who are going to rely on those programs."


June 30th 2014 on growing income inequality in the US

The former Secretary of State acknowledged the gap, but failed to offer up a substantive solution.

She called for a "concerted effort" built around "consensus," she warned that "it will only get worse" if left unaddressed, and she attempted to feel the pain of the malaise by channeling a whim of emotion of those hurting.

"They feel like they're falling behind. At best, maybe they're running in place," she said.

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/run-2016/2014/06/30/hillary-clinton-has-an-answer-for-hobby-lobby-not-income-inequality