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BootinUp

(47,139 posts)
Fri May 27, 2016, 03:52 PM May 2016

Hillary Clinton: $25 billion could pay for This or Trumps Wall

Hillary Clinton Verified account
?@HillaryClinton

$25 billion could pay for:

1,500 new schools.
Clean energy to power 5 million homes.

or...

Trump's wall:


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The state of our infrastructure is an emergency — and an opportunity.

Last year, I released an ambitious infrastructure plan that would leverage public and private investment to repair our crumbling bridges and roads, build world-class airports, and connect all American households to the internet.

But that’s just a down payment. We have to do even more. As a share of the economy, federal infrastructure investment is roughly half of what it was 35 years ago. That underinvestment is hurting our economy — and our future.

In my first 100 days as president, I will send a plan to Congress making the biggest, most forward-looking investment in American infrastructure since the construction of the Interstate Highway System.

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/736248351939776521
https://medium.com/hillary-for-america/the-state-of-our-infrastructure-is-an-emergency-and-an-opportunity-baa5444dcdaf#.z5vv6e53s

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amborin

(16,631 posts)
10. shows how LITTLE you know about your candidate:
Fri May 27, 2016, 10:19 PM
May 2016

Hillary has ALREADY voted many times to actually construct one to keep out "illegal immigrants."


http://www.latintimes.com/hillary-clinton-bragging-about-building-border-wall-keeping-out-illegal-immigrants-352631


Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s campaign denounced Hillary Clinton on Monday over comments she made in a New Hampshire Town Hall that highlighted her support of a U.S.-Mexico border as a tool to deter Latin American immigrants from entering the country illegally. The comments came after O’Malley himself blasted Clinton over her immigration record on Sunday at an immigration forum in Nevada which she did attend, a fact that the former Gov. was happy to underscore. Clinton’s border wall comments came in response to a question from an audience member who asked “What you think about securing the border with some of the illegal immigrants that come in?”

I voted numerous times when I was a senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in,” Clinton said “and I do think that you have to control your borders.



http://www.latintimes.com/hillary-clinton-bragging-about-building-border-wall-keeping-out-illegal-immigrants-352631


Hillary Flip Flops on Immigration (finger to the wind, as usual)

If something doesn't poll well, Hillary won't take a stand on it. She didn't want immigrants to be granted driver's licenses:

when immigrants needed her support, Clinton was always on the fence.

“It was a politically tough issue,” Elliot Spitzer told the Times. “It didn’t poll well, but there was no ambiguity about what was right. And if you look at where we are now as a nation on this very issue It’s the law of the land, I think, in California, a slew of states, and it’s not controversial because people know it’s right and it works. But at the time it was controversial. And because it was controversial she hemmed and she hawed.”


http://www.latintimes.com/hillary-clinton-immigration-flip-flops-criticized-martin-omalley-immigrant-activist-351341

Tarc

(10,476 posts)
12. Increasing border security is not in the ballpark or even the same sport as Trump's "Wall"
Fri May 27, 2016, 10:24 PM
May 2016


You got caught in a bit of vicious hyperbole, you don't get to backpedal by linking to legislation that most every Senator and Representative supports.

Tarc

(10,476 posts)
14. Lying won't get you out of it. Clinton does not support the Trump Wall
Fri May 27, 2016, 10:30 PM
May 2016

She and most every other member of Congress support sensible border security measures.

But you are the supporter of the guy who was so easily duped by Trump into thinking he actually wanted a debate, so this here is hardly coming as a surprise.

amborin

(16,631 posts)
11. how ignorant and obnoxious of you to deny the truth:
Fri May 27, 2016, 10:20 PM
May 2016

Hillary has ALREADY voted many times to actually construct one to keep out "illegal immigrants."


http://www.latintimes.com/hillary-clinton-bragging-about-building-border-wall-keeping-out-illegal-immigrants-352631


Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s campaign denounced Hillary Clinton on Monday over comments she made in a New Hampshire Town Hall that highlighted her support of a U.S.-Mexico border as a tool to deter Latin American immigrants from entering the country illegally. The comments came after O’Malley himself blasted Clinton over her immigration record on Sunday at an immigration forum in Nevada which she did attend, a fact that the former Gov. was happy to underscore. Clinton’s border wall comments came in response to a question from an audience member who asked “What you think about securing the border with some of the illegal immigrants that come in?”

I voted numerous times when I was a senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in,” Clinton said “and I do think that you have to control your borders.



http://www.latintimes.com/hillary-clinton-bragging-about-building-border-wall-keeping-out-illegal-immigrants-352631


Hillary Flip Flops on Immigration (finger to the wind, as usual)

If something doesn't poll well, Hillary won't take a stand on it. She didn't want immigrants to be granted driver's licenses:

when immigrants needed her support, Clinton was always on the fence.

“It was a politically tough issue,” Elliot Spitzer told the Times. “It didn’t poll well, but there was no ambiguity about what was right. And if you look at where we are now as a nation on this very issue It’s the law of the land, I think, in California, a slew of states, and it’s not controversial because people know it’s right and it works. But at the time it was controversial. And because it was controversial she hemmed and she hawed.”


http://www.latintimes.com/hillary-clinton-immigration-flip-flops-criticized-martin-omalley-immigrant-activist-351341

hollysmom

(5,946 posts)
3. I am still wondering how a wall works?
Fri May 27, 2016, 04:04 PM
May 2016

China built a great wall and discovered taht the river made it no work - so who get s the river? would this block the US from the rio?
Sorry I just get off on tangents of logistics. I thought another problem was the tunnelling that gets drugs into this country as well. Walls are just two dimensional objects that don't necessarily work well, if anyone else wants to get on a tangent, I have a bunch more questions. Like could a guy fly over the wall in a chair tied to a bunch of balloons.

Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
4. GREAT STATEMENT!! For those thinking practically rather than given to Conspiracy Theories as a
Fri May 27, 2016, 04:05 PM
May 2016

religion.

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