Does that make him a socialist?
Can we turn our brain back on please?
Joanna
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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:17 AM Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
> HMMMMMMMMMM
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> "It is easy to forget that for years, Mrs. Clinton weathered criticism
> that she was too liberal, the socialist foil to her husband’s centrist
> agenda. Economists in the Clinton administration referred to the first lady
> and her aides as “the Bolsheviks.”
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> In Mrs. Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, she positioned herself as
> the populist candidate to the left of Barack Obama on several economic
> issues, angering some of her Wall Street donors and earning broad support
> among organized labor and working-class voters.
>
> Advisers have lists at the ready outlining Mrs. Clinton’s calls as early
> as 2007 to eliminate the so-called carried interest loophole, roll back the
> Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy, impose tighter regulations on
> derivatives and place limits on chief executives’ compensation.
>
> “Let’s finally do something about the growing economic inequality that is
> tearing our country apart,” Mrs. Clinton said during her campaign,
> appearing at the Take Back America conference, a gathering of liberal
> groups, in June 2007. “The top 1 percent of our households,” she added,
> “held 22 percent of our nation’s wealth.”
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