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mdohoney

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Wed Mar 16, 2016, 10:08 PM Mar 2016

Hillary is undoubtedly a member of the top 1 percent and a founding member of the DLC

Bill, Hillary, Al Gore and Joe Lieberman among the founding members. Bill might have called himself a progressive who wanted to get things done like Hillary. What was the currency of the trades he made with the Republicans to get things done. Free trade agreements which transferred good American Jobs overseas but not here. The Destruction of the Social Safety net by limiting the amount of time someone can stay on welfare almost doubling the level of poverty in the USA. The increase in the retirement age from 60-65. The killing of the legislation that kept banks from becoming gambling houses thus causing the banks to fail. To refer to some of the things Bill Clinton did to get things done. What will Hillary do. Push through TPP? Increase the retirement age to 70? Creatively gut the ACA? Continue Obama's push to privatize schools? Privatize Social Security? How will she get things done with a Republican Legislature and Republican Senate?

This does not mention the question of how long it will take the the Republicans to try and impeach here considering all the legal stuff the Clintons have been involved. My guess is it wont take long before she is so busy defending here behavior that she wont be able to govern. Good luck if she is the nominee.

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Hillary is undoubtedly a member of the top 1 percent and a founding member of the DLC (Original Post) mdohoney Mar 2016 OP
Her and Bill are in the top 1% of the top 1%. Amassing $150,000,000 in about 15 years. rhett o rick Mar 2016 #1
 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
1. Her and Bill are in the top 1% of the top 1%. Amassing $150,000,000 in about 15 years.
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 11:19 PM
Mar 2016

That's $10 million a year from billionaires and corporations. Some would call it graft. But some among us envy and revere the wealthy.

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