Clinton Says She Long Has Been Sounding Alarm on Economy

[Taxmyth]

Clinton Says She Long Has Been Sounding Alarm on Economy
By John M. Broder

BURBANK, Calif. — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Barack Obama, had been “timid and unenthusiastic” in his proposals for dealing with the current economic downturn. She also said that Senator John McCain, the likely Republican nominee, would simply continue what she called the failed economic policies of President Bush.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/clinton-says-she-long-has-been-sounding-alarm-on-economy/

Discuss.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Well, she certainly doesn't like talking about the war.

:rofl:

[Taxmyth]

5. Who would

But what she does say about it makes sense to me.

[redqueen]

2. She can talk? She wants Greenspan involved with her solution!

:wtf:

[C_U_L8R]

6. The Greenspans are dead to her now

[VolcanoJen]

20. Really. All economic credibility went out the window with the Greenspan thing.

:wtf: exactly.

[blm]

3. We saw her lead the fight against Bush on so many matters from 2001-2007.

Didn't we?

[Kool Kitty]

7. Right.

I must have missed all those things.

[C_U_L8R]

4. She might want to sound the alarm on her own campaign

Cause it hit an iceberg and it's going down.

[Kittycat]

26. No, it's just a recession... Maybe borderline depression?

[Taxmyth]

8. so far no discussion

simply a bunch of Nyaaa Nyaaa Nyaaaa.

No wonder the country is in the shape it's in.

[Capn Sunshine]

14. what do you care?

You're here to disrupt.

[Kool Kitty]

15. Could you enlighten me about what exactly

"Paulette Revere" has done exactly for the past year to bring the recession to light? We know about the recession, we're living through it, but what has she done about it or said about it?

[Taxmyth]

17. Years of wisdom

Sen. Clinton Calls for New Economic Policies

By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 12, 2006; Page A04

CHICAGO, April 11 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) warned Tuesday night that rising budget and trade deficits now threaten the nation's global competitiveness and called for economic policies that restore fiscal discipline in Washington, attack rising health care costs and ensure that middle-class Americans share more fully in the fruits of a growing economy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/11/AR2006041102127.html

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said that if she became president, the federal government would take a more active role in the economy to address what she called the excesses of the market and of the Bush administration.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/us/politics/21clinton.html?ex=1201582800&en=07b1c63b076f65b9&ei=5070&emc=eta1

Keep America Working: Restoring Jobs to Ensure American Prosperity

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2004/03/b35989.html

Years of comments to go through to see Senator Clinton's talking about this nation facing financial peril and ideas on what to do.

[Kittycat]

29. I guess you and Hillary missed Obama's speech on the war & economy...

In addition to the reporters commenting last week about him actually saying the "R" word, when Clinton hadn't... Also the part where he predicted the Housing crisis a year ago. :shrug:

But yeah - HRC is doing such a great job running her campaign - it's clearly a window in to how she'd run the WH. (right in to the ground).

[whistle]

9. Has Hillary used the "R" word yet....recession or will there have to be

...and economic meltdown before those in congress take appropriate steps to get the American economy back on track?

[HockeyMom]

10. I never heard her say that

when I lived in NY. I moved 8 months ago.

[DeadElephant_ORG]

11. But is it TRUE? Is this more "sniper fire"? What statements of alarm did she in fact raise??? n/t

[anigbrowl]

12. Right...he just wrote to Paulson and Bernanke about it a year ago,

and proposed a major restructuring of securities regulation last week, in what would have been the biggest shake-up of the regulatory environment since the depression. Meanwhile, Clinton's boldest proposal has been to impose price controls on mortgages, in defiance of all legal and economic wisdom.

Well, she can play the economic populism card and I don't blame her for doing so. The sad fact is that few people know or care very much about economics, probably less than 10% of people. Everyone cares a lot about economic effects, but not to the point of understanding how the financial and regulatory systems function. So she may get away with it.

[Hepburn]

13. Gawd, she is sooooooooooo full of shit....

....what's next? More stories about dodging sniper bullets?

:eyes:

[silverojo]

16. I've been sounding the alarm since the Chimperor took office

Sounding the alarm and actually doing something are two very different things.

[rurallib]

18. As I recall in Iowa she wouldn't talk about the economy

Edwards highlighted it. In the standard Obama speech the economy was one of his major points. Obama had meetings all over the state on the economy with his surrogates. Heck, I got to speak with Austin Goolsby for about an hour.
So, Hillary, I say bullshit.

[Texas Hill Country]

19. actually, she has been saying it for a long time.

[Taxmyth]

25. Yes she has

Thank you and I love Texas.

[Unsane]

21. Her husband shares the blame for alot of the economic woes we're seeing now

The "Deregulation 90's" led us to this mess.

[NC_Nurse]

22. My thoughts exactly.

:eyes:

This is partly what they wrought. Did she beg Bill not to approve the deregulating of markets, telecoms,
lopsided trade agreements? Bush added his dubious tax cuts, but a lot of this mess was already in place.

[eilen]

23. I do recall she

talked about "outsourcing working both ways" in regard for her friends at Tata hiring 10 people in Buffalo, NY. Of course, that does not account for an entire Carrier plant relocating operations and jobs to China, Smith Corona closing, Marcellus Casket Company closing, Learbury closed, Every one of our local department stores except one menswear shop has closed, Nestle Plant closing.... even the check printing company laid off workers-- there are many others, I am just listing those in my area from the past years she has been in office.

When she was running for Senate she made big promises about bringing jobs in and keeping the ones we have and putting controls on outsourcing. That was a lot of talk about economics. Of course, the result of her action or inaction has proved to be the reverse. I honestly believe she has no concept of economics in NY and Rust Belt states, she just knows what buttons to push to get her votes.

[OzarkDem]

24. What a joke

The Clinton economy was so strong it took Bush a war, massive deficit spending and nearly 2 terms to run it in the ditch.

[Taxmyth]

27. don't blame bill for deregulation

Definitely a republican agenda.

[Pisces]

28. Obama was the first candidate to say the word recession in his economic speech.

He was also the first one to discuss the subprime meltdown over 1 year ago.