Despite a speech being touted as "sweeping" and populist, Hillary Clinton's ingrained market-based approach to governance kept shining through like high beam headlights aimed at the yellow line in the middle of the road.
She outlined her economic agenda on Monday in a talk at the carefully chosen progressive bastion known as the New School.
Reciting the standard litany of ills -- erosion of the middle class due to globalization, crushing student debt, increasing wealth disparity, lack of child care for working mothers, and Wall Street malfeasance -- she managed to totally ignore how Clintonian neoliberal policies themselves accelerated our race to the bottom and contributed to the pain of what she calls "everyday Americans." Hillary Clinton can deny reality every bit as glibly as her fellow neolibs and neocons across the aisle:
She outlined her economic agenda on Monday in a talk at the carefully chosen progressive bastion known as the New School.
Reciting the standard litany of ills -- erosion of the middle class due to globalization, crushing student debt, increasing wealth disparity, lack of child care for working mothers, and Wall Street malfeasance -- she managed to totally ignore how Clintonian neoliberal policies themselves accelerated our race to the bottom and contributed to the pain of what she calls "everyday Americans." Hillary Clinton can deny reality every bit as glibly as her fellow neolibs and neocons across the aisle:
“Twice now in the past 20 years, a Democratic president has had to come in and clean up the mess. I think the results speak for themselves.“Under President Clinton – I like the sound of that - America saw the longest peacetime expansion in history … nearly 23 million jobs… a balanced budget and a surplus for the future. And most importantly, incomes rose across the board, not just for those already at the top.
