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World Socialist Web Site's Andre Damon view
Hillary from the leftest precincts;
The central aim of Clinton’s speech was to reassure the American
financial oligarchy that, despite her occasional lukewarm denunciations
of corporate criminality and social inequality, she is a right-wing,
pro-business defender of Wall Street.
The speech makes clear that a Clinton presidency will pursue the same
pro-Wall Street policies of the Obama administration, seeking to expand
the fortunes of the super-rich at the expense of the great majority of
society, while invoking “fairness” and “equality” as window dressing.
He has a point. Both Hillary and Barack Obama ARE millionaires.
For instance, Clinton admitted, “There are nearly six million young
people aged 16 to 24 in America today who are not in school or at work.
The numbers for young people of color are particularly staggering. A
quarter of young black men and nearly 15 percent of all Latino youth
cannot find a job.”
Her response to this outrageous reality was not, even in a rhetorical
or demagogic sense, the promotion of a government program to put people
to work.
Maybe she learned her lesson after the failure of the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of '09?
Instead, she called for tax cuts for big business. She
declared, “I firmly believe that the best anti-poverty program is a
job... That’s why I’ve called for reviving the new markets tax credit
and empowerment zones to create greater incentives to invest in poor and
remote areas.”
Like in China.
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