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Clinton promises end to economic excess
Houston Chronicle ^ | Jan. 21, 2008 | WIre Reports

Posted on 01/20/2008 11:14:37 PM PST by FocusNexus

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

She told the New York Times she would put her emphasis on issues like inequality and the role of institutions like government, rather than market forces, in addressing them.

She said that economic excesses -- including executive-pay packages she characterized as often "offensive" and "wrong" and a tax code that had become "so far out of whack" in favoring the wealthy -- were holding down middle-class living standards.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: Illinois; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 1929; clinton; communist; cpusa; democraticparty; democratparty; democrats; economy; election; electionpresident; elections; hillary; hillaryclinton; lenin; leninism; marxism; saulalinsky; sds; taxhike; trotskyite
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To: Darkwolf377
who’ve never even managed a 7-11, but know just what we need to do in the nation’s economy.

never even managed a 7-11 who've never worked an honest day's work in their lives, but have always been swilling at the public trough as government apparatchicks.

61 posted on 01/21/2008 3:55:38 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government, Benito Guilinni a short man in search of a balcony)
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To: Darkwolf377
Now, ain't that logical to you? :D

Sounds perfectly logical to me. (In a pigs ass!!)

62 posted on 01/21/2008 3:59:01 AM PST by dearolddad (Opinions are like rectums: everybody has one.)
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To: FocusNexus
"Change"...."ending economic excesses"...."will take things from you for the public good"...

Dear God, this would be a good year for the Repbulicans to run a conservative.

63 posted on 01/21/2008 4:00:16 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: ought-six
"She’s much, much more than that. She poses the greatest domestic danger to America in its history. Left unchecked, America cannot survive a Hildabeast presidency."

Most probably true. Yet just look at those on this forum who on the one hand claim to love America and all she offers, yet is perfectly willing to stay home on election day if they don't get the Republican candidate THEY want. It's for the "good of the Party", according to them. The problem is once a plague like the Clintons infect us there may be little left salvage. I read in stunned disbelief posts here by some who actually claim there is NO difference, NONE, between Clinton or Obama and Giuliani, Romney or McCain. How absurd is it that none of these people seem to consider the Congress and the effect a Dem victory would have on it (coattails anyone)? These people will say, like the bumper stickers we sometimes see from the crybaby left(except slightly different) "Don't blame me, I didn't vote for Clinton, I stayed home." Who was it that said, "We will get the government we deserve"? If some of you believe we deserve a Clinton then by all means stay home.

64 posted on 01/21/2008 4:01:52 AM PST by aroundabout
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To: weegee

No simply put, she would exempt herself and her “family” from all restrictions, and applications of the new Queen Tax Code. THat way she would be the “most equal” of all.
Wake the heck up America!


65 posted on 01/21/2008 4:22:01 AM PST by Shady (The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
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66 posted on 01/21/2008 4:23:59 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: A Balrog of Morgoth

After decades of Marxist indoctrination from Hollywood, academia and the MSM, the Hildabeast can now openly promote a Stalinist agenda and the sheeple just eat it up.


67 posted on 01/21/2008 4:24:05 AM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: FocusNexus

“She told the New York Times she would put her emphasis on issues like inequality...”

Right, by taking my money and giving it to deadheads.


68 posted on 01/21/2008 4:26:11 AM PST by toddlintown (Build More Highways For Children---Huckleberry Talking Point)
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To: FocusNexus

Liberals don’t have the first clue.


69 posted on 01/21/2008 4:27:14 AM PST by popdonnelly (Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
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To: FocusNexus

The Democrats promise to take money away from people who don’t vote for them, and give it to people who vote for them.


70 posted on 01/21/2008 4:29:07 AM PST by popdonnelly (Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
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To: Darkwolf377

Fracking commies.


71 posted on 01/21/2008 4:29:17 AM PST by toddlintown (Build More Highways For Children---Huckleberry Talking Point)
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To: FocusNexus
Read it and weep.

Unfortunately, with the economic tsunami that is about to hit, this is going to get her elected... (as the powers that be have intended)

72 posted on 01/21/2008 4:29:21 AM PST by chilepepper (The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
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To: EBH

No, by that time Ahmamurderijad will have the Bomb and we will all be dead.


73 posted on 01/21/2008 4:30:01 AM PST by Shady (The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
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To: toddlintown
No, no, they're PROGRESSIVES! See, now don't that make it all better?

Even Hillary says she's not a lib but a "progressive" so of course that makes her beliefs all right! (rolls eyes)

74 posted on 01/21/2008 4:33:45 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Pro-Life atheist who will vote Fred in the primary, Republican in November)
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To: Smokin' Joe

I suppose she intends to start with book advances?????


75 posted on 01/21/2008 4:34:03 AM PST by JohnD9207 (Lead...follow...or get the HELL out of the way!)
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To: FocusNexus
Weep bigtime... if Fred doesn’t win... this is your next president!

LLS

76 posted on 01/21/2008 4:36:02 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims and vote Fred!)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
If this Marxist broad ever becomes president, we’re going to see a series of events take place in America that will leave a trail of death and destruction from coast-to-coast.

The unique thing about her is that she is not concealing this Marxist stuff right now. One would think her "team" would ask her to play more moderate now to get elected.

77 posted on 01/21/2008 4:45:10 AM PST by alrea
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To: Darkwolf377
I hear the same thing all the time (and not just in the People's Republic of Cambridge). An astonishing number of people have failed to learn that wealth is not a static quantity (e.g. - a pie to be divided), but a value that grows and spreads outward as the result of people taking risks and earning rewards. All they have to do is look around. Even in Cambridge, Mass. many poor people own cars, have air conditioning, dependable heat and hot water, home entertainment systems, and well-stocked refrigerators. How many of their grandparents or even parents could have said the same?

Oh, yeah, I forgot: it was "government" that did all that. When the same sort of people suggest that I'm not paying my "fair share", I ask them what they think would happen if I just decided to stop working and live off the government instead. What if all of the undeserving "rich" people did the same? To even pose the question is considered to be unspeakably selfish. It is apparently some people's duty to produce for everyone's benefit, you see. For her part, Hillary Clinton seems to believe this wholeheartedly. Of course, she's never earned an honest dollar in her life - which of course, explains a lot.

78 posted on 01/21/2008 4:45:22 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (Kill the terrorists, secure the borders, and give me back my freedom.)
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To: andy58-in-nh
The key word in your post is "Selfish"--it is the stake through the heart of the debate, they believe.

And it never applies to those who want something someone else earned--it applies to those who have "been lucky in life's lottery" aka those who work for a living and make a decent living.

79 posted on 01/21/2008 4:47:13 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Pro-Life atheist who will vote Fred in the primary, Republican in November)
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To: Darkwolf377
The key word in your post is "Selfish"--it is the stake through the heart of the debate, they believe.

Exactly. The word is used by Socialists in order to end all debate over the right to wealth and property. It is a form of emotional blackmail, a bullying epithet meant to induce guilt on the part of producers and excuse envy on the part of those who desire what they have not produced and do not wish to pay for.

Atlas is not shrugging yet but his shoulders are getting pretty damned sore.

80 posted on 01/21/2008 4:52:08 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (Kill the terrorists, secure the borders, and give me back my freedom.)
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