by Tina Grazier
Speaking to General Motors employees in Warren, Ohio today Hillary Clinton made this statement:
Today, Im announcing an agenda to reign in the special interests and save the American people at least $55 billion a year.
Its fascinating to me that, while speaking to a big special interest group, Hillary vowed to reign in special interest groups. On the other hand, its become increasingly clear that in her divisive world of haves and have nots, some special interest groups are more equal than others. She is making a vow to this special special interest group, to stick it to the very company that provides these employees a job, workers compensation insurance, free collection of federal and state taxes from payroll, training, wages and various benefits, including health insurance. At the same time she claims that sticking it to corporations will save the American people $55 billion a year. Thats quite a promise, even for her. I suppose in an effort to show her humanity she went on to describe how she measures her life:
not by applause or headlines but by whether Im helping people.
Frankly, Id feel better if she measured her life, at least in terms of the presidency, by how well she serves the American peopleall of them! Her job, if elected president, would not, or should not, include managing and controlling the affairs and daily business decisions of companies like General Motors. Yet that is exactly how she sees the job of the presidency.
The article Clinton pits herself against business, by Mike Allen at the website Politico,is the source for all quotes by Hillary Clinton. The following quotes further reveal the state of her thinking:
Well take on the oil companies and harness their record profits to create millions of clean energy jobsIllgive them a choice: invest some of your profits in alternative energy, or well do it for you. *** Well take on the credit card companies so that you and your families arent drowning in debt. *** Well take on the insurance companies and tell them they can no longer discriminate against the sickest people who need care the most. *** And Ill go after drug companies and insurance companies that are overcharging consumers and the government its time to end their profiteering at our expense. *** Well take on Wall Street and tell them: youre going to finally pay your fair share in taxes. Because its outrageous that a teacher making $50,000 pays a higher tax rate than some Wall Street investment managers making $50 million. And Ill create a bipartisan Corporate Waste Commission to review all those corporate subsidies and propose a comprehensive way to end them. We can save billions of dollars a year and put it to work for you. *** Well take on the student loan companies and tell them no more ripping off our sons and daughters. Im proposing a Student Borrower Bill of Rights no more deceptive advertising and outrageous fees. And well end the inefficient subsidies for private student loan companies. Because we should be making it easier for our kids to go to college not harder.
If you are applauding right now you are not only stupid, but a fool. Shall we remind ourselves of the term fascist?
fascism: any program for setting up a centralized autocratic national regime with severely nationalistic policies, exercising regimentation of industry, commerce, and finance, rigid censorship, and forcible suppression of opposition.
Hillary Clinton recently said she could control her husband Bill. After reading this article I almost feel sorry for the man. He was tiresomme, using the word I incessantly, but her words are not just those of ego or conceit, they spring from a need for absolute power and controlland the United States Constitution be da%ned!
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The following excerpt contains the oath of office (from the U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 1) that the president takes upon the occasion of his inauguration. It is followed by a description of the duties of the President of the United States (Article II, Sections 2 and 3):
”I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment. *** He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments. *** The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session. *** He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information on the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
These things concern the affairs of the nation. Nowhere does the Constitution say that the president has the power or the authority to: take, take on, tell, go after, or harness profits with respect to privately held companiesnor does it say the president shall utter threatening either/or statements to privately held companies or force them into compliance and submission.
Here’s a little tip for Ms Hillary, Hugo Chavez, Clinton. The word is profit, not profiteering, and it is not a dirty word but a word that describes the means by which prosperity is made manifest. It is because of profit that companies can offer jobs, opportunity for advancement, training and new and innovative products and technologies or services. Profit is the means by which hundreds of trillions of hard earned dollars flow into and through our bloated government coffers each year. In fact, many of the dollars that fed your family through the years and that protect your family today, Senator Clinton, were generated by hard working people…all of them seeking profit. There is a difference between honest profit and thievery; most would agree that taxes fueling government excess is more akin to thievery.
Hillary Clinton claims she will save the American people 55 billion dollars a year by playing dictator and controlling private companies. I suggest that she will, if allowed to bully her ideas into law, cost the American people trillions of dollars in lost jobs, a lowered standard of living due to higher prices for everyday goods and services, and, yes, lost tax revenues to government coffers. She will pave the way for greater poverty, not only of the pocket variety, but also of the spirit. This woman hasnt a clue about what makes the economy workor what makes life work for that matter.
Please choose wisely in November.