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Posted on 04/21/2015 9:10:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The first thing I thought of while reading this was Romney trying to impress CPAC a few years ago by calling himself “severely” conservative. Coming from a committed populist ideologue like Elizabeth Warren, this might sound ominous. Coming from Hillary, it reeks of someone trying way, way too hard to sound like they’re part of the tribe.
In her 2008 campaign, Mrs. Clinton touted the prosperity of the 1990s. Today, the trade deals, Wall Street deregulation, and deficit reduction Mr. Clinton oversaw are often blamed as contributing to the current divide between a tiny sliver of the wealthiest and the vast majority of Americans…
In a meeting with economists this year, Mrs. Clinton intensely studied a chart that showed income inequality in the United States. The graph charted how real wages, adjusted for inflation, had increased exponentially for the wealthiest Americans, making the bar so steep it hardly fit on the chart.
Mrs. Clinton pointed at the top category and said the economy required a “toppling” of the wealthiest 1 percent, according to several people who were briefed on Mrs. Clinton’s policy discussions but could not discuss private conversations for attribution.
It takes a net worth of around $8 million to join “the one percent.” The Clintons’ net worth is estimated at $55 million; Hillary alone got a cool $14 mil as an advance for her dismal memoir “Hard Choices.” The electorate’s usually willing to let populists slide on their personal wealth — FDR is the ultimate example but John Edwards was a lefty heartthrob for a time as recently as 2008 — but I wonder if they’ll be so forgiving for Hillary. It’s not just the tone-deaf comments about being “dead broke” after Bill’s second term ended. It’s a mix of her famous chumminess with Wall Street, the stench of oligarchy that surrounds her dynastic campaign, and the obvious opportunism involved in her seizing Warren’s core platform to try to dissuade Warren from a primary challenge. It’s just impossible to take her seriously about this anymore. That’s one of the ironies of the campaign, that the “same old Hillary” really isn’t the same anymore in terms of how she’s politically positioned.
And believe it or not, youngsters, once upon a time righties did take Hillary Clinton kinda sorta seriously as a class warrior (a fact her campaign is now desperate to remind lefties of, as proof that she’s an authentic populist after all). I myself noted more than once during the 2008 campaign how easily startling comments about collectivism and redistribution sometimes seemed to slip from her mouth. Remember when she grumbled about oil companies’ profits being at an all-time high and recommended taking them for an energy fund? Remember the “‘we’re all in it together’ society,” a bit of Warrenism several years before Warren became the rage? Remember “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good”? Calling for “toppling” the one percent is of a piece with that, a little flourish for effect from someone who knows how deeply compromised she is on this subject. If a wave of liberal populism handed Congress back to the Democrats and the White House to Hillary, it’d be worth worrying about how far she’d go to accommodate the true class warriors in her party. As it is, with the House sure to be safely Republican throughout her first term, it’s a cheesy pander aimed at keeping progressives complacent during the primaries.
Wouldn’t surprise me, in fact, if the “topple” comment was leaked by her own campaign. I wonder which one of her staffers scripted it.
That’s funny, because most of the top 1% are Democrats.
Will the Clinton Foundation shut down if the Fools make her President or will it go Warp Speed ?
Eat the rich!
Die Capitalist scum! Die!
Vote for me!!
and RINOs
Hitlery is sending a message that if you don’t join me, when I become President, you’ll regret it.
Sounds like a backroom Bolshevik - not an American candidate for office,
If she keeps this up, Hillary will be wearing Fauxahontas’s head dress.
Behind her was the top democrat in Congress Tom Foley looking like he had been horse-whipped into submission. No longer the political stud, Tom left Congress as soon as he could after his encounter with The Rodham.
Whatever she announced to them in that room she made it clear that she was going to rule the roost.
Yeah, that's what we need, a good-for-nothing demoncrap who will stop at nothing to push her secret agenda.
Our only saving grace is that she is so bad at it.
yeah, it does. But this is what RATS think that "middle class" people want. They're delusional and sick all over the place.
I don't think you have to report bribes on your income tax. Not that she would anyway. When you own the IRS, you don't have to do anything like that.
When Hillary said "We're going to take things from you for the common good," the "you" was the 1 percenters she was addressing, and the "we" was the ruling class to whom that dictum doesn't apply. It's good to be Queen.
“Mrs. Clinton pointed at the top category and said the economy required a “toppling” of the wealthiest 1 percent”
You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._H._Boetcker
“Mrs. Clinton pointed at the top category and said the economy required a “toppling” of the wealthiest 1 percent”
Better living through bad economics and socialist tyranny.
If she’s serious about this plan, it wouldn’t take much for the 1% to “topple” her.
“We need to “topple” the wealthiest one percent”
Translation
We need to topple the 1%’s that don’t support me and take their wealth..
The 1%’s that do support me will see their wealth increase.
DING, DING, DING, we have a winner. And let’s add “Especially foreigners”
I wonder what Bill Gates III and Warren Buffett think about what Hillary is saying....
She really thinks people like Steve Job and Bill Gates should be taken down??
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