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In reply to the discussion: Can you spell tone deaf? H-I-L-L-A-R-Y. Hillary Clinton: We Were 'Dead Broke' Upon Leaving WH [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,359 posts)"We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt"
Momentarily without income, and with the luxury of being in debt - because financial institutions believed enough in you to allow you to go into debt (enough to buy two homes & finance an Ivy League education) is not "dead broke" in the sense that most people who - for example - live on the street or are always on the edge of being kicked out of their home because they don't know where the next month's rent will come from.
They can (and everyone expected them to) have jobs immediately - and be able to continue to borrow money to live on until then. Luxuries people who are truly dead broke don't have. The issue isn't whether they are permitted to earn money however they want - but that the language used to describe her financial position was tone deaf - in the way people with money (or access to it) are often tone deaf to the reality of those who have none. The kind of statement we often hear from (and jeer at) when it comes out of the mouth of a Republican and I, for one, don't find it any more attractive coming out of the mouth of someone on my end of the political scale.