Updated the last post to reflect Hillary's belated opposition to the TPP deal, but I think this quote from her interview with Judy Woodruff merits highlighting.
...We've learned a lot about trade agreements in the past years. Sometimes they look great on paper. I know when President Obama came into office, he inherited a trade-agreement with South Korea. I, along with other members of the cabinet, pushed hard to get a better agreement -- We think we made improvements -- Now, looking back on it, it doesn't have the results we thought it would have, in terms of access to the markets, more exports, et cetera.
And here I thought, listening to her at first, that she was just referring to the insane trade-deals her husband pushed through as president, but no, she's indicting her own competence & record as well.
She then goes on with some nonsense about how 'in order for us to have a competitive economy in the global marketplace', the US needs to 'raise wages' 'at home' (which the Republican meanies have blocked). So, in other words, she doesn't get the fundamental complaint ordinary workers in the West have against these deals, nor why they are so favoured by the corporate elites, at all. I sure am filled with confidence in Hill' as the Dem's candidate right now.
* Should really be QOYD for 'Quote of Yesterday', but I suppose that's not 'a thing.'** ** More and more, I feel like commas should be placed outside of quotation-marks, but it just doesn't feel right for the full stop/period. I'm 'evolving' on the issue.
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson's special debate-strategy: Imagine the other candidates as cute babies. Man must have a hell of an imagination. Then again, he is a highly-educated neurosurgeon who believes the Earth to be six-thousand years old...
Oh yeah, and the evil TPP deal was finally agreed (look it up). The details may or may not be available to the public a few decades from now...when the damage is already done. Happy hump-day !
Update: Oh lookee, Hillary-come-lately finally voiced her bold opposition to the trade-deal she previously praised & helped promote whilst in office, now that the deal has been inked by all the nations involved, and Obama has the 'Fast Track' power to ram it through Congress without the possibility of debate or amendment.
What courage from the would-be future leader of the free world, she who so vehemently opposed the war in Iraq that she voted for its authorisation, and she who hemmed and hawed for months on the Keystone XL pipeline-deal she previously supported whilst in the administration, till prolonged low oil-prices made it politically and economically unviable ! Bold bold Hillary !
What were his beliefs? At the time, Trump said he was “very pro-choice,” endorsed single-payer as solution to our healthcare crisis—and told Meet the Press he was open-minded to supporting gay marriage.
But on one issue that would affect billionaires like him personally, Donald Trump could not have been more liberal. According to this CNN article from 1999, Trump proposed erasing the national debt—with a one-time “wealth tax” on the mega-rich.
Trump, a prospective candidate for the Reform Party presidential nomination, is proposing a one-time "net worth tax" on individuals and trusts worth $10 million or more.
And he even used language that would later become slogans for the Occupy movement to sell his proposal.
“By my calculations, 1 percent of Americans, who control 90 percent of the wealth in this country, would be affected by my plan,” Trump said. “The other 99 percent of the people would get deep reductions in their federal income taxes … Personally this plan would cost me hundreds of millions of dollars, but in all honesty, it’s worth it.”
It really is all a game. A performance. And the media just laps it up unquestioningly.
