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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I wasn't coming back to GD P but Skinner's post prompted me in a way to do so. [View all]randome
(34,845 posts)7. Not sure if you've been paying attention.
http://correctrecord.org/the-points/hillary-clinton-a-lifetime-champion-of-income-opportunity/
I'm not all that big on specifics, myself. I go by a politician's general stance. Intuition, if you want to call it that. I feel fine with Clinton as our next President.
And as someone who voted the same as Sanders > 93% of the time, well, I'm okay with that, too.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]
Hillary Clintons record proves she believes that every American should be able to earn an equal days pay for an equal days work. As a Senator, Hillary Clinton introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act and was an original cosponsor of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
In the Senate, Hillary Clinton supported increasing the minimum wage and voted repeatedly to protect and increase it. She was an original cosponsor of the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007, and authored the 2006 and 2007 Standing with Minimum Wage Act to tie Congressional salary increases to an increase in the minimum wage.
As a Senator, Hillary Clinton supported progressive tax policies that required millionaires to pay their fair share. She opposed the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003, and she supported a variety of middle-class tax cuts, including tax credits for student loan recipients, and keeping in place the tax cuts for those who make under $250,000 a year.
Clinton has said that inherited wealth and concentrated wealth is not good for America, and she has consistently voted against repealing the estate tax on millionaires, doing so in 2001, 2002, and 2006.
Hillary Clinton supported working families going through difficult times through no fault of their own. In the Senate, she was a bipartisan leader on fighting to extend emergency unemployment benefits.
Hillary Clinton knows that tomorrows shared success starts with todays child, and her dedication to children began long before she ever entered public office. In fact, her first job out of law school was for the newly-formed Childrens Defense Fund, an organization she would later chair.
Hillary Clinton has worked to increase health coverage for millions of children in low-income and working families through the State Childrens Health Insurance Program, a program she helped created as First Lady. In the Senate, Hillary Clinton looked for ways to strengthen the program, introducing bills to allow states to expand it.
Hillary Clinton has worked to expand access to early childhood education for children of lower-income families. As First Lady of Arkansas, Hillary Clinton introduced her husband to the HIPPY program, which expanded early childhood education to economically disadvantaged children. In the Senate, Clinton partnered with Kit Bond in an effort to expand voluntary full-day pre-K for children from low-income families.
Today, as part of the Too Small to Fail Initiative to improve the health and well-being of children five and under, Hillary Clinton is working to close the word gap for kids in low-income families who often have smaller vocabularies than their classmates.
I'm not all that big on specifics, myself. I go by a politician's general stance. Intuition, if you want to call it that. I feel fine with Clinton as our next President.
And as someone who voted the same as Sanders > 93% of the time, well, I'm okay with that, too.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]
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I wasn't coming back to GD P but Skinner's post prompted me in a way to do so. [View all]
mmonk
Apr 2016
OP
I don't trust David Brock's propaganda outlets. If he or his employees say it, I'm suspect.
aikoaiko
Apr 2016
#9
I can understand that. Brock is a loud-mouthed idiot and I wish someone would rein him in.
randome
Apr 2016
#11
Sure, but people like me think her use of the phrase is cynical given her relationship w Wall St
aikoaiko
Apr 2016
#16
And yet you cite his website, lending legitmacy rather than pulling the reins....
Bluenorthwest
Apr 2016
#19
Yeah, well, I didn't know that was his site. I'll remember that. But here's another.
randome
Apr 2016
#23
Yes, well Hillary lies. What she says and does are generally two different things.
cui bono
Apr 2016
#91
Sanders getting virtually nothing through Congress versus Clinton getting something done.
randome
Apr 2016
#24
I don't know. Neither do you. But she is a Progressive. That counts for something.
randome
Apr 2016
#60
All those things you mention paint a different picture than simply, "SHE'S EVIL!"
randome
Apr 2016
#85
LGBT rights? Clinton recently claimed Ronald Reagan was a hero of LGBT activism and the
Bluenorthwest
Apr 2016
#5
And yet she refused to make equal amends and she has not explained HOW she could
Bluenorthwest
Apr 2016
#21
I'm sorry you feel that way. I suspect that nothing she could say or do would ever be enough
Arkansas Granny
Apr 2016
#26
First of all, I did not attack you or pass judgment on you or blame you for anything.
Arkansas Granny
Apr 2016
#75
Everyone in Congress is rich. And for most of that 30 years, the GOP was in control or obstructing.
randome
Apr 2016
#30
Yes. The 2016 Democratic Party platform begins by addressing income inequality
LanternWaste
Apr 2016
#6
Do Democrats acknowledge income equality? "mutual respect and acknowledgement". If you do not
seabeyond
Apr 2016
#8
"Mutual respect and acknowledgment?" With stuff like this all over your journal?
IamMab
Apr 2016
#12
That all is total rhetoric. "I see", "I want", "Regulators neglected", "that's what happens",
rhett o rick
Apr 2016
#25
Didn't she tell us that Iraq had WMD and was harboring al qaeda. Can she be
rhett o rick
Apr 2016
#51
She is detached from reality. I spent my first 10 big earning years paying for things
Bluenorthwest
Apr 2016
#27
She was one of the people instrumental in moving the party to where it is so that is no excuse.
TheKentuckian
Apr 2016
#93
For being "not a fan" you sure sound like a fan. What statements? Do you have any
rhett o rick
Apr 2016
#29
What Hillary says is really just what Hillary feels, or is told, she needs to say, at any given
djean111
Apr 2016
#42
Why would you use a racist dog whistle? Why would you point out someone only has 164 posts?
cui bono
Apr 2016
#92
All they offer are insults. They're driving us off a cliff and calling us stupid...
onecaliberal
Apr 2016
#32
"Get back in your hole and pay some taxes because Hillary and her rich friends want a vay cay..."
CentralCoaster
Apr 2016
#41
I have examined where Demoratic loyalties lie, you judge, I'll explain my position.
Dragonfli
Apr 2016
#43
(added for clarity) If the Party Leaders (not the voters) had a favorite theme song it would be this
Dragonfli
Apr 2016
#46
Has anyone really ever known a time when there wasn't great income inequality? nt
Jitter65
Apr 2016
#54