tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post1213505492500292876..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: Hillary Clinton's MalpracticeKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-36754187785296503612015-07-20T22:53:49.994-04:002015-07-20T22:53:49.994-04:00Oh, this long campaign...we'll have to watch H...Oh, this long campaign...we'll have to watch Hillary's pivots and switches for over a year, and wonder where she'll finally land. And how long she'll stay there after the election.<br /><br />I commented to the op ed today re Fannie/Freddie and the mtg crisis:<br /><br />Bill Clinton now says he went too far signing bills to increase our prison incarceration rates. Will he ever also admit he went too far signing repeal of laws separating risky investment banking from retail consumer banking? And Hillary isn’t calling for restoring Glass Steagall. That would be too radical, to restore laws that kept the US economy from serious recessions and crashes since the 1930s thru 2007. (radical instead of truly conservative, as Orwell might say).<br /><br />I commented to Krugman's column about the EU Dream:<br /><br />This column for economists has enough generalizations to almost sound like a Hillary Clinton campaign speech. Please tell us how EU’s fantasy economics specifically affects the middle and working class in the various advanced EU nations. Compare to US specifics. <br /><br />In your blog you equated budget cutting in Germany with the US right wing. Quite a statement. Please compare/contrast. Has Germany’s parliament been non operational like our Repub congress? Starved their own govt and citizens of funding for public services, health care and education? Destroyed employee unions? Do they have a Fox News media monopoly to spread the party line? <br /><br />Do the successful democracies sacrifice their own citizens’ living standards for the profit of the big banks? Aim to destroy their version of the New Deal and return to a Gilded Age? Say, pre Bismarck’s social security reforms? <br /><br />Does their highest court bless corporations paying for their elections for the best return on investment? Or do they at least keep their bribery illegal, not legal?<br /><br /><br />How about Goldman Sachs, etc, extracting from both Greece and the US?. But that’s one of Hillary Clinton’s biggest sponsors, of course. Does Angela Merkel also hug bankers for the cameras?<br /><br />See Robert Reich: “How Goldman Sachs Profited From the Greek Debt Crisis” July 16.<br />“The investment bank made millions by helping to hide the true extent of Greek debt, and in the process almost doubled it.”<br />Meredith NYCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-79998788554061635782015-07-20T17:38:10.296-04:002015-07-20T17:38:10.296-04:00Hillary Clinton Draws Scrappy Determination From a...Hillary Clinton Draws Scrappy Determination From a Tough, Combative Father http://nyti.ms/1Jqrrqf<br /><br /><br />The apple didn't fall far from the tree.Pearlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-72332191292910766652015-07-20T10:47:57.046-04:002015-07-20T10:47:57.046-04:00This is an old tactic, isn’t it. A “centrist” Dem...This is an old tactic, isn’t it. A “centrist” Democrat pivots left during the campaign to pick up the ever-hopeful lefties still in the party. In this case, just steal away enough supporters from Bernie Sanders and that robbery will eventually make him disappear. After the party nomination is secured, Hillary swings back to center-right, and then right some more, where she will pick up more than enough propaganda money to prevail in a few key swing states.<br /><br />BTW, it’s so unfair of you Karen, to bring up Hillary’s old missteps into the neocon doo-doo. At that level of politics, one has to make compromises every day. You’re making her look like an opportunist while she’s working so hard to shake off her bona fides in support of war, globalization and austerity.<br /><br />Greece may or may not be the Lehman Brothers of the Eurozone. If and when Greece folds, will the Euro crash like Wall Street 2008? Here’s an unusually well-informed interview of Yves Smith (Naked Capitalism) on Louisiana Public Radio. Aired yesterday and available here (h/t Valerie):<br />http://wwno.org/post/le-show-week-jul-19-2015Jay–Ottawahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10360356126450612113noreply@blogger.com