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Hillary Clinton called for 'toppling' the 1%
Business Insider ^ | 4/21 | Colin Campbell

Posted on 04/21/2015 10:48:37 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the US economy requires a "toppling" of the wealthiest 1%, according to a New York Times report published Tuesday.

Clinton reportedly made the comments in a meeting with economists earlier this year, when she was shown a graph that "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."

"Clinton pointed at the top category and said the economy required a 'toppling' of the wealthiest 1 percent, according to several people," writes The Times' Amy Chozick.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


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KEYWORDS: clinton; hillary; hillaryclinton
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Well there goes most of the government!


21 posted on 04/21/2015 10:59:56 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: TangledUpInBlue
She has committed the following crimes that the attorney General has sworn to uphold.
1. Removal of Government property from the State department.
2. Destruction of Government property
3. 20 counts of bribery and corruption including reciprocating with government policies under her control. We have only one solid one until the book breaks loose. That is where her husband got 1 million from the Canadian bank and shortly thereafter she had the State Department approve of the Key Stone pipeline in the face of fierce opposition by the White house. $1 million for a 22 minute speech to nobody.

She makes Senator Bob Manendez look great!! Where is her multicount indictment? This is 3rd world !! Where is the SPECIAL PROCECUTOR ??

22 posted on 04/21/2015 11:00:07 AM PDT by iowacornman (Speak out with courage!!)
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To: Westbrook

I vote bat$h!+ crazy!!!


23 posted on 04/21/2015 11:00:25 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: thackney

She’s proven time and again that she is nowhere near the smartest woman in the world....


24 posted on 04/21/2015 11:00:55 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Class warfare. What an original leftist idea!


25 posted on 04/21/2015 11:01:13 AM PDT by vpintheak (Call the left what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

As a progressive / socialist, Hillary wants to sit atop a system that hands out favors to, maintains and perpetuates her so-called “1%”

The end game of fiat money, debt and socialist economics is always and everywhere a thin strata of connected people who are wealthy due to government, with the remaining sheep being fleeced.


26 posted on 04/21/2015 11:01:46 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Gawd... we are in for some Deep Doo Doo....
Obama has nearly destroyed the Ameican economy and now Hillary is going to bury it for us.


27 posted on 04/21/2015 11:03:09 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Another brilliantl- intelligent comment sent thru an amazingly-stupid spell checker)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Hillary is the she in shenanigans.


28 posted on 04/21/2015 11:04:04 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

old lying poor=mouthing “poverty case” b*tch Hillary is either in the top 1% or da*med near to it

let’s confiscate all her ill-gotten bribe money FIRST!


29 posted on 04/21/2015 11:04:40 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Another brilliantl- intelligent comment sent thru an amazingly-stupid spell checker)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I don’t get this. She and Bill are <1%ers.


30 posted on 04/21/2015 11:04:54 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: b4its2late

Can’t wait to see Buffett and Gates get the shaft!


31 posted on 04/21/2015 11:05:37 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Not including herself, of course.


32 posted on 04/21/2015 11:05:52 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (True followers of Christ emulate Christ. True followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
This is either class warfare or a completely non-controversial statement with people who really believe in free market economics.

Capitalism requires that the 1% be "toppled" on an ongoing basis. One of our problems right now is that we have not allowed market forces to remove a significant number of 1%'ers, replacing them with a new group of 1%'ers.

That is a HIGHLY undesirable consequence of bailouts and "too big to fail" mentality.

And despite her rhetoric, Hillary!® really doesn't want any of her cronies at the top to be turfed out. She just wants to make noises.

33 posted on 04/21/2015 11:06:34 AM PDT by FredZarguna (It looks just like a Telefunken U-47 -- with leather.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I am satisfied with my income, home, wife, life.


34 posted on 04/21/2015 11:07:11 AM PDT by exnavy (government should be neither seen or heard.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Topple your own 1% first, Hill.


35 posted on 04/21/2015 11:07:15 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (I want the Halal butcher to cut up my pig. If he doesn't, I'm filing charges.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Fascist...


36 posted on 04/21/2015 11:13:54 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: TangledUpInBlue

She wants to topple herself?! Cool!


37 posted on 04/21/2015 11:15:32 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

So is she going after the wealth of Soros?


38 posted on 04/21/2015 11:16:36 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Let’s topple these communists instead.


39 posted on 04/21/2015 11:20:26 AM PDT by Williams
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda



40 posted on 04/21/2015 11:23:08 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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