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“Flat Broke” Hillary Clinton to Jump on Class Warfare w/Both Feet
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On September 26, 2014 @ 10:25 am In The Point | 5 Comments
This was always inevitable.
Hillary’s “Flat Broke” gaffe was part of the setup for her real campaign for the welfare state which she is now trying to pass off as feminist.
Hillary Rodham Clinton joined some of the most powerful women in Congress on Thursday to push for advances on affordable child care, paid family leave and raising the minimum wage that could create greater economic progress for women.
Clinton noted that women hold two-thirds of the minimum wage jobs across the country and three-quarters of the jobs that depend primarily on tips — meaning that many of them are working full time but hovering at or below the poverty line.
“We talk about a glass ceiling,” said Clinton, who ended her 2008 campaign by proclaiming that she and her supporters had put 18 million cracks in it. “The floor is collapsing.”
That’s a good line… from someone whose own career is the result of political connections, who has never had to face a glass ceiling or a collapsing floor.
If we had a real conversation about poverty in America and the lack of better paying jobs, the ball would roll right back to the Democrats. So they predictably push for minimum wage increases which will just push a feedback loop of higher prices and lost jobs. It’s easier to raise the minimum wage and then hand out unemployment and welfare to those who lose their jobs.
It’s a political win, win either way.
Hillary is trying to Obamize her campaign dressing up class warfare in identity politics. Meanwhile no one wants to talk about how the Clintons made so much money and why Maryland has become the richest state in the country or why all those billionaires who have been pumping money into their party have gotten a lot richer while the country has grown poorer.
The Clinton fortune consists of leavings from the big power brokers who have gotten rich on Democratic Party corruption, lots of it involving higher taxes and lost jobs. If Republicans want to win the class warfare narrative, they are going to have to take this on.
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