She even runs her business like Lenin.
Posted on 05/29/2007 9:13:29 AM PDT by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton outlined a broad economic vision Tuesday, saying it's time to replace an "on your own" society with one based on shared responsibility and prosperity.
The Democratic senator said what the Bush administration touts as an "ownership society" really is an "on your own" society that has widened the gap between rich and poor.
"I prefer a 'we're all in it together' society," she said. "I believe our government can once again work for all Americans. It can promote the great American tradition of opportunity for all and special privileges for none."
That means pairing growth with fairness, she said, to ensure that the middle-class succeeds in the global economy, not just corporate CEOs.
"There is no greater force for economic growth than free markets. But markets work best with rules that promote our values, protect our workers and give all people a chance to succeed," she said. "Fairness doesn't just happen. It requires the right government policies."
Clinton spoke at the Manchester School of Technology, which trains high school students for careers in the construction, automotive, graphic arts and other industries. The school highlighted one of the nine goals she outlined: increasing support for alternative schools and community colleges.
"We have sent a message to our young people that if you don't go to college ... that you're thought less of in America. We have to stop this," she said. "Our country cannot run without the people who have the skills that are taught in this school."
Beyond education, Clinton said she would reduce special breaks for corporations, eliminate tax incentives for companies that ship jobs overseas and open up CEO pay to greater public scrutiny.
Clinton also said she would help people save more money by expanding and simplifying the earned income tax credit; create new jobs by pursuing energy independence; and ensure that every American has affordable health insurance.
Mugabe in Zimbabwe agrees with the Beast!
You’re Are All in It Together, Clinton Says (but I’m in it for myself)
By John Solomon and Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, February 23, 2007; A01
Former president Bill Clinton, who came to the White House with modest means and left deeply in debt, has collected nearly $40 million in speaking fees over the past six years, according to interviews and financial disclosure statements filed by his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).
Last year, one of his most lucrative since he left the presidency, Clinton earned $9 million to $10 million on the lecture circuit. He averaged almost a speech a day — 352 for the year — but only about 20 percent were for personal income. The others were given for no fee or for donations to the William J. Clinton Foundation, the nonprofit group he founded to pursue causes such as the fight against AIDS.
His paid speeches included $150,000 appearances before landlord groups, biotechnology firms and food distributors, as well as speeches in England, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia that together netted him more than $1.6 million. On one particularly good day in Canada, Clinton made $475,000 for two speeches, more than double his annual salary as president.
“I never had a nickel to my name until I got out of the White House, and now I’m a millionaire, the most favored person for the Washington Republicans,” Clinton told a friendly audience in Kentucky last fall. “I get a tax cut every year, no matter what our needs are.”
Indeed, the Clintons — who left the White House with an estimated $12 million in legal debts rung up during the Whitewater, campaign fundraising and Monica S. Lewinsky investigations — are worth an estimated $10 million to $50 million, according to Hillary Clinton’s most recent disclosure form. That is attributable primarily to the speaking fees and to the seven-figure book deals that both Clintons signed shortly after leaving the White House.
The fortune they have amassed gives the Clintons a nest egg for the first time, and it allows them to tap into that wealth for a campaign if Hillary Clinton, as expected, forgoes public financing in her race for president. It also suggests a sometimes close connection between their personal finances and her political career.
Many of Bill Clinton’s six-figure speeches have been made to companies whose employees and political action committees have been among Hillary Clinton’s top backers in her Senate campaigns. The New York investment giant Goldman Sachs paid him $650,000 for four speeches in recent years. Its employees and PAC have given her $270,000 since 2000 — putting it second on the list of her most generous political patrons.
The banking firm Citigroup, whose employees and PAC have been Hillary Clinton’s top source of campaign donations, with more than $320,000, paid her husband $250,000 for a speech in France in 2004. Last year, it committed $5.5 million for Clinton’s Global Initiative to help encourage entrepreneurship and financial education among the poor.
Asked about the companies and their relationship to the Clintons, Jay Carson, a spokesman for the former president, said, “It certainly makes sense that reputable New York companies who support the policies and works of President Clinton and his foundation would also be supportive of their senator.”
She even runs her business like Lenin.
Well, it’s out in the open now...
You hit the nail on the head.
Liberals/Democrats are just socialist,Marxist communists.
You think liberals would have figured out that socialism and government planning doesn’t work.
Hillary is a typical democrat/liberal.
Bill Clinton never misses an opportunity to say [ Begin low , raspy voice] "You know Ah didn't need President Bush's tax cuts... [End low, raspy voice].
Every opportunity he gets, he lets people know he has made money. And you can bet like John Kerry, he will go to any length to make sure his taxable income and tax rate is the lowest possible. I read Kerry paid 8.25%
"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." -Hillary Rodham Clinton, 6/28/04
"Shared Prosperity Should Replace On Your Own' Society." -Hillary Rodham Clinton, 5/29/07
The socialist Hilabeast knows what we peons need.
Hillary’s communist manifesto....... what’s yours is mine and I’ll take it.
Hillderbeast is Queen of dimCommunist party
I meant 12.8 %, not 8.5 %
No.
I went to the voting booth and cast my votes for the most conservative candidates in every race. Most of my candidates won, too.
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No thanks.
Yeah yeah, I know, Hill: “Socialism just hasn’t been tried by the right people yet!”
I'm all for togetherness, sharing and other assorted happy thoughts. However, I expect that I get to freely choose the company I wish to be 'together and share' with.
But there are MILLIONS of people who eat crackers, obviously!! Unbelievable. It astounds me that the Hollywood elite will say she’s being “misunderstood”
and defend her as the answer to our problems and our
great American Hero since Lincoln.
She is definitely one French fry short of a Happy Meal.
hair standing straight up, thank you. and my skin crawling as well.
it is FAR from funny, my friend. This should scare the crap out of every single citizen of this country. She is closer to the WH than we want to believe...unless WE DO SOMETHING!
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