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[Carl]

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Thu Apr 16, 2015, 11:06 AM

Star Member Skinner (60,222 posts)

The Seven Positions Hillary Clinton Laid Out in Iowa
This is from today's NBC News First Read. Looks like a good list...

Campaign finance: "(We need to) get unaccountable money out of it once and for all, even if that takes a constitutional amendment."

Free community college for qualified students: "I fully support President Obama's plan to make community college free."

Expand pre-K programs to more children: "I think we have to start that in pre-kindergarten. I think we have to give more kids the chance to get ready."

Paid family leave: We are the last developed country in the world that has no national paid leave for parenting or illness."

Building on Obamacare: "I am committed to trying to, you know, build on what works in the Affordable Care Act... Part of what I'll be doing during the campaign is looking for ways that we keep what works and what's lowering costs."

Immigration reform: "We are really missing out on economic opportunity because we haven't been able to agree on comprehensive immigration reform... We are saying to all these other people who want the same dreams and the same aspiration and the same willingness to work hard just like our families did that, 'No, we're not going to … make it legal for you.'"

Make equal pay more enforceable: "Were going to, I hope, continue to push legislation that would make equal pay more enforceable."

Skippy is not impressed.

Response to Skinner (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2015, 11:11 AM

Star Member NYC_SKP (66,432 posts)
1. It's a start.

There's nothing huge here, I see them all as pretty safe and very obvious, but not particularly courageous or awe-inspiring.

Number one surprises me, I'd like to hear more specifics.

Number five concerns me, we keep what works? What about the rest of Obamacare?

I think it all works, so far, just needs to be expanded.

Response to Skinner (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2015, 11:17 AM

saintsebastian (41 posts)
3. I Wonder

I wonder if $200,000 speeches at Goldman Sachs constitute unaccountable money in politics. Doubtful. Also, is this the same former Secretary who plans to raise $2,500,000,000 for her presidential bid?

Response to Skinner (Original post)

Thu Apr 16, 2015, 11:24 AM

Star Member Enthusiast (37,443 posts)
6. Not a peep about Social Security and Medicare.

That's funny considering it concerns so many of us. Also there is the Clinton's affiliation with the Pete Peterson group. You know, Pete Peterson the old billionaire that imagines he can take it with him when he dies. Pete's main focus is to eliminate Social Security.

The primitives demand more free shit!

[thundley4]

Building on Obamacare: "I am committed to trying to, you know, build on what works in the Affordable Care Act... Part of what I'll be doing during the campaign is looking for ways that we keep what works and what's lowering costs."

That sounds a lot like what some republican RINOs have said about Obamacare. 

[FiddyBeowulf]

This must be the beginnings of a purge. Skinner and others make some posts promoting anything Hillary does and then sit back and note which DUmmies are not with the program. In a few months will come the DU version of the "night of the long knives".

[franksolich]

This must be the beginnings of a purge. Skinner and others make some posts promoting anything Hillary does and then sit back and note which DUmmies are not with the program. In a few months will come the DU version of the "night of the long knives".

Yeah, and probably for that reason, the leader of the anti-Hillaryites, Skippy, had better get in line.

<<<would feel badly if Skippy were missing from Skins' island.

[SVPete]

Campaign finance: "(We need to) get unaccountable money out of it once and for all, even if that takes a constitutional amendment."

I'll give her a half-kudo, for acknowledging that what she wants would require a Constitutional amendment. What she wants is worse than what we have, so I've just given HRC very weak praise. And WTH is "unaccountable money"? Does that include union money?

Free community college for qualified students: "I fully support President Obama's plan to make community college free."

You get what you pay for. If it's "free" it won't be worth or valued much.

Expand pre-K programs to more children: "I think we have to start that in pre-kindergarten. I think we have to give more kids the chance to get ready."

Head Start is a gross failure, so let's make it universal and (later) mandatory!

Paid family leave: We are the last developed country in the world that has no national paid leave for parenting or illness."

Great! Let's burden businesses or taxpayers even more!

Building on Obamacare: "I am committed to trying to, you know, build on what works in the Affordable Care Act... Part of what I'll be doing during the campaign is looking for ways that we keep what works and what's lowering costs."

Well this is a good tap-dance. Were she honest she would have added, "And we know nothing in ObamaCare works!"

Immigration reform: "We are really missing out on economic opportunity because we haven't been able to agree on comprehensive immigration reform... We are saying to all these other people who want the same dreams and the same aspiration and the same willingness to work hard just like our families did that, 'No, we're not going to … make it legal for you.'"

Great! Lets burden social programs with more leeches, and let's burden our broken school system with even more kids who don't speak English and have messed up home lives!

Make equal pay more enforceable: "Were going to, I hope, continue to push legislation that would make equal pay more enforceable."

This will prove to be a bureaucratic-regulatory nightmare-behemoth!