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Is it fair to say Hillary is the austerity candidate? (Original Post) Lone_Wolf Apr 2016 OP
She's the Vanilla Pudding without the Vanilla candidate Armstead Apr 2016 #1
Yes DJ13 Apr 2016 #2
She's the candidate who feels the answer is always more tax credits for corporations TheDormouse Apr 2016 #3
She's not the austerity candidate for the 1%. Autumn Apr 2016 #4
No, that wouldn't be fair. dawg Apr 2016 #5
ambitious? Actually no they are not, right down the center according to polls on all of Bernies litlbilly Apr 2016 #9
Just because they are popular with the people, it doesn't mean they'll be easy to achieve. dawg Apr 2016 #13
who said anything about easy? nobody. It seems like you are good with repub lite. You go litlbilly Apr 2016 #16
Do you know what the word "ambitious" means? dawg Apr 2016 #17
There is nothing pragmatic about austerity. nt geek tragedy Apr 2016 #6
There are none.. speaktruthtopower Apr 2016 #7
When the housing colapses again after the bond failure, it will make 08 look like a picnic. litlbilly Apr 2016 #10
Buy pitchforks Lone_Wolf Apr 2016 #12
Pragmatic due to her ties to corporate money, she is telling you..don't expect much. Jefferson23 Apr 2016 #8
Yes. She's on Wall Street's side. Period. CharlotteVale Apr 2016 #11
And she will dish it out with a softly gloved iron fist. nc4bo Apr 2016 #14
Welp, if the shoe fits, wear it! Snarkoleptic Apr 2016 #15
I have not seen any reason to think any different. Downwinder Apr 2016 #18
Hawkish Hillary and austerity in the same sentence? Eh. JudyM Apr 2016 #19

TheDormouse

(1,168 posts)
3. She's the candidate who feels the answer is always more tax credits for corporations
Sun Apr 17, 2016, 07:28 PM
Apr 2016

--well, almost always

dawg

(10,624 posts)
5. No, that wouldn't be fair.
Sun Apr 17, 2016, 07:44 PM
Apr 2016

Neither of the Democratic candidates is proposing a program of austerity. Both offer plans to expand public spending in various ways. Bernie's proposals are, by far, the more ambitious.

 

litlbilly

(2,227 posts)
9. ambitious? Actually no they are not, right down the center according to polls on all of Bernies
Sun Apr 17, 2016, 07:47 PM
Apr 2016

policy positions. From all Americans.

dawg

(10,624 posts)
13. Just because they are popular with the people, it doesn't mean they'll be easy to achieve.
Sun Apr 17, 2016, 07:54 PM
Apr 2016

If you expect the sort of changes Bernie proposes to come easy, you've got another thing coming. I wish things weren't that way, but they are.

 

litlbilly

(2,227 posts)
16. who said anything about easy? nobody. It seems like you are good with repub lite. You go
Sun Apr 17, 2016, 08:10 PM
Apr 2016

with that nonsense. good luck.

speaktruthtopower

(800 posts)
7. There are none..
Sun Apr 17, 2016, 07:45 PM
Apr 2016

austerity loses elections.

Austerity will be forced on us by the bond market eventually and it won't be pretty.

 

litlbilly

(2,227 posts)
10. When the housing colapses again after the bond failure, it will make 08 look like a picnic.
Sun Apr 17, 2016, 07:49 PM
Apr 2016

People will have to be ready for that somehow.

nc4bo

(17,651 posts)
14. And she will dish it out with a softly gloved iron fist.
Sun Apr 17, 2016, 07:56 PM
Apr 2016

And the lowly 99% will be told Tough Choices need to be made, we can't afford "entitlements", add another year or two to the minimum SS retirement age and other such fuckery. At the same time, we need to "get things done" in Syria, Libya, Iran, get that TPP passed, frackil baby frack.......ectera.

Baby has plans. Lots and lots of plans.

Snarkoleptic

(6,002 posts)
15. Welp, if the shoe fits, wear it!
Sun Apr 17, 2016, 08:08 PM
Apr 2016

She is, at her core, a DLC corporatist. Don't let's get started on her connections to jeebus-an-an-excuse-to-be-an-asshole group "The Family".

If we look closely at the history of Clinton’s relationship with three pieces of legislation affecting LGBT rights—Religious Freedom, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT), and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), we see three wildly different patterns. First off, there are major differences between the Indiana law Pence signed and other RFRAs, going back to the federal RFRA that Clinton signed in 1993. As author Garrett Epps put it, in the Atlantic, “1) businesses can use it against 2) civil-rights suits brought by individuals.”

The real problem, so far as Hillary Clinton is concerned, is her earlier support for a conceptually related bill, the “Workplace Religious Freedom Restoration Act,” which the ACLU strongly opposed as a poorly drafted bill that would open the floodgates to all manner of discriminatory behavior. The potential troubles were well-known and clearly articulated. Nevertheless, Clinton supported it in tandem with religious conservative GOP Sens. Sam Brownback and Rick Santorum. Her strange alliances with religious conservatives in the Senate was explored in Jeff Sharlet’s fascinating book “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.” We’ll return to that book later.



soo much more here-
https://www.salon.com/2015/04/25/progressives_cant_trust_hillary_clinton_on_cultural_and_economic_issues_the_problems_are_stark_and_decades_long/

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