After reading and listening and watching various programmes on the Democratic presidential primary debates between Clinton and Sanders I was startled by the absolute false hoods stated by Hillary Clinton...I decided to look a little closer at the subject.
I came across a brilliant combination of my thoughts put forward by Paul Buchheit for buzzflash at Truthout in the US... I've pasted the item here simply to save you having to do so: After reading this item you may, like me, be convinced that there is little difference between Clinton and the Republican front runner multi billionaire Donald Trump...Bernie Sanders has more honesty in his little finger than Hillary Clinton has in her whole body...history proves it...read this and decide for yourself...
Hillary's Dance: The Two-Faced Hypocritical 12-Step
PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
(Photo: C-SPAN)If,
sad to ponder, the presidential election comes down to Hillary Clinton
vs. a Republican, we'll be left either way with a business-friendly
neocon White House. Given Hillary's past deceits and reversals, it's
easy to see why she doesn't inspire trust among the American people.
1. Environment
"I
won’t let anyone take us backward, deny our economy the benefits of
harnessing a clean energy future, or force our children to endure the
catastrophe that would result from unchecked climate change." --Hillary
Clinton,
11/29/15
Greenpeace estimates that the Clinton campaign has taken $4.5 million from fossil fuel lobbyists and donors, and
Naomi Klein and
Grist have reported on all the money received from ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips and other oil sources. In response, Hillary
explained,
rather incoherently, "I have money from people who work for fossil fuel
companies. I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me."
2. War
"Is there really any argument that America must remain a preeminent leader for peace and freedom..?" --Hillary Clinton,
10/31/06
Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, an advisor to the United Nations, called Hillary "the candidate of the War Machine." In her book, "Hillary's Choice," author
Gail Sheehy
claimed it was Hillary who encouraged the president to bomb Kosovo.
Then, as Secretary of State in 2011, she strongly supported war in
Libya, a country which today is overwhelmed with crime and joblessness and a lack of basic necessities. She backed the
escalation of the Afghanistan war, and in 2012, according to Sachs, she was largely responsible for the
obstruction of peace efforts in Syria.
3. Banks
"I'm going to go after big banks that pose a systemic risk." --Hillary Clinton,
02/26/16
Go after their money, that is. In the two years before starting her presidential campaign, Hillary was paid
over $4 million in speaking fees from the big financial institutions. As
summarized
by Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, "Her closeness with big banks on
Wall Street is sincere, it's heart-felt, long-established and well
known."
Attendees at Hillary's Wall St. speeches
referred to her as warm and "gushy" toward her audience,
sounding "like a Goldman Sachs managing director," effectively telling them "We’re all in this together." She refuses to
release the transcripts of her speeches to the big banks, saying, in a pout, she'll do it "when everyone else does."
4. Campaign Money
"We
have to end the flood of secret, unaccountable money that is distorting
our elections....You’re not going to find anybody more committed to
aggressive campaign finance reform than me." --Hillary Clinton,
09/08/15 and
02/09/16
But the
Center for Public Integrity and the
Political Insider
both describe a Clinton campaign and foundation that are accumulating
cash from Super PACs, foreign governments, and lobbyists.
5. Free Trade
"This TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements." --Hillary Clinton,
11/15/12
"Based on what I know so far, I can’t support this agreement." --Hillary Clinton,
10/08/15
"I did say, when I was secretary of state, three years ago, that I hoped it would be the gold standard." --Hillary Clinton,
10/13/15
Hillary was FOR, then AGAINST, and then either FOR OR AGAINST the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). According to one
account, she has "a long record of verbally criticizing free-trade agreements, but then supporting them when in office."
6. Workers
"If you invest in your workers and in America's future, then we'll stand with you." --Hillary Clinton,
03/01/16
Campaign finance records show that a member of the Walton family donated over
$350,000 to the Clinton "Victory Fund." Hillary, a former member of the Walmart
Board of Directors,
has refused to publicly criticize the company, which pays its workers
so little that U.S. taxpayers have to subsidize them with
over $6 billion in food stamps and other safety net funding.
7. Prison
"Black lives matter. Everyone in this country should stand firmly behind that." --Hillary Clinton,
07/20/15
Michelle Alexander
notes that Hillary called black kids "super-predators" who needed to be
brought "to heel," like dogs. To do this, she supported her husband's
1994 crime bill, which was so severe that food stamps were denied to
anyone convicted of a felony drug offense, and public housing was
disallowed -- at the risk of eviction for entire families -- for anyone
with even an arrest.
8. Welfare Reform
"I
have spent a very long time, my entire adult life, looking for ways to
even the odds, to help people have a chance to get ahead." --Hillary
Clinton,
10/13/15
Hillary actively
advocated
for her husband's 1996 "welfare reform" legislation, calling the
recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
"deadbeats," and despite a doubling of extreme poverty calling the
program a
success as recently as
2008.
9. LGBT
"We
should ban discrimination against LGBT Americans and their families so
they can live, learn, marry, and work just like everybody else."
--Hillary Clinton,
06/13/15
According to
The Atlantic, before 2013, "she earnestly believed that marriage equality should be denied to gays and lesbians. In 2004 she
said, "I believe marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman."
10. Tax Avoidance
"We
can go after some of these schemes ... misclassifying of
income...routing income through the Bahamas or the Cayman Islands or
wherever." --Hillary Clinton,
January, 2016
The
New York Post
reports that "the Clintons’ family wealth has grown big-time thanks to
firms with significant holdings in places like the Caymans." Husband
Bill has
made millions from his partnership with a fund registered in the Cayman Islands. The Clintons also
dodged estate taxes (which they support for other wealthy people) by putting their New York home in a residence trust.
11. Tuition
"We
need to make a quality education affordable and available to everyone
willing to work for it, without saddling them with decades of debt."
--Hillary Clinton,
08/10/15
The
National Review
points out that Clinton has routinely charged universities $200,000 --
annual tuition for 8 students -- for 30-minute appearances.
12. Emails
"I am all about new beginnings ... So here goes, no more secrecy, no more zone of privacy." --Hillary Clinton,
03/23/15
This was in response to her email controversy, using a private server to conduct official business. Just
four days later, her attorney announced that she had
deleted all the emails on that server.
One More Misstep
"I know how to get things done." --Hillary Clinton,
02/08/16
As noted by
John Atcheson,
"She only sponsored 3 Bills that became law during her 8 year tenure.
One established an historic site in New York, another renamed a Post
Office, and the third named a portion of a highway in New York after
Timothy J. Russert."
Hillary keeps dancing around reality.
