Hillary Clinton destroys Hobby Lobby decision to cheers, applause

[JDPriestly]

45. The country needs her. She can appoint competent people for State and other positions.

She is very strong on labor issues.

The primary issue in this country, the issue from which all other issues flow, is economic disparity. Every other issue is related to that issue. And the reason we have economic disparity is that our tax system favors wealth and our social system disfavors the poor.

I worked for a homeless project for about 8 years and have dealt professionally with other issues including issues related to family and children. The economic problems of our country are central to every other problem we have -- even transportation and our involvement in oil-producing countries. Every problem goes back to the soul-destroying economic injustice in our country.

We can have capitalism, the creativity of capitalism and still have a fair economy. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are the only responsible voices focusing on this core issue.

Hillary is all over the place. She is great on women's issues, but as I have so often pointed out, the Bill Clinton legacy has unfortunately worked out so that the mistakes he made have overshadowed the good he did. I won't list his many mistakes. Hillary will hear about them over and over during the campaign if she runs. She certainly did not handle the question about RIFRA very well. That law should have been overturned by the Supreme Court. It is fraught with problems. Anyway we will never agree on this. I really think Hillary should leave well enough alone and not drag Bill Clinton's legacy through the mud by running.

Let's just talk about NAFTA and its effects on the US economy.

One million American jobs lost to NAFTA. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that the rising trade deficit with Mexico and Canada since NAFTA went into effect eliminated about pne million net jobs in the United States by 2004. . . . EPI further calculates that the ballooning trade deficit with Mexico alone destroyed about seven hundred thousand net U.S. jobs between NAFTA’s implementation and 2010. . . . Moreover, official government data reveals that nearly five million U.S. manufacturing jobs have been lost overall since NAFTA
took effect. . . . Obviously, not all of these lost U.S. manufacturing jobs – one out of every four of our manufacturing jobs – is due to NAFTA. The United States entered the World
Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995. China joined WTO in 2000 and the U.S. trade deficit with China soared thereafter. However, at the same time, given the methodology employed, it is
also likely that the EPI estimates do not capture the full U.S. job loss associated with NAFTA.
Service sector jobs have also been negatively impacted by NAFTA, as closed factories no longer demand services. EPI estimates that one third of the jobs lost due to the rising trade deficit under NAFTA were in non-manufacturing sectors of the economy.

http://www.citizen.org/documents/NAFTAs-Broken-Promises.pdf

We need to have a national discussion about our economy. I don't think Hillary is the person to lead it. She does not have that kind of understanding of the economy. Elizabeth Warren is the person to lead Americans into rethinking how we can make sure that all Americans have the opportunity and incentives to make the contributions to our economy and our society that they are capable of making. We are headed in the wrong direction with regard to those issues. Bill Clinton did not know how to make the changes we needed. I do not trust Hillary to figure it out. Elizabeth Warren has already figured out a lot of it. At least she knows what is wrong.

That's why I will not vote for Hillary Clinton. I'd rather help a third party candidate if she is running on the Democratic ticket. I think here in Southern California, a vote for Hillary would be a wasted vote. She is too much of a generalist. We need Elizabeth Warren and her expertise right now.