You have heard by now that, at a Democrat rally in Massachusetts, the woman Democrats wish to anoint as president in 2017 demonstrated her understanding of economics by saying this:
“Don’t let anybody tell you it’s corporations and businesses create jobs.”
So, basically, any of you who have jobs in the private sector are technically unemployed according to the Democrats’ most favoritest politician. (The one who “misplaced” $6 Billion taxpayer dollars while running the Department of State, Oops.)
What you may not have heard is that statement is just one link in a rather long chain of HRC expressing her contempt for private enterprise and the free market, and supporting socialist collectivism. (Hat Tip: Oregon Muse)
1) “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.” – Hillary Clinton 6/29/2004
2) “It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few… And to replace it with shared responsibility, for shared prosperity.”- Hillary Clinton 5/29/2007
3) “(We)…..can’t just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.” – Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
4) “We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own … in order to create this common ground.” – Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
5) “I certainly think the free-market has failed.” – Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
In the age of Obama and Elizabeth Warren (the hard-left Democrat Senator who supports a $22-an-hour minimum wage and lied about being an American Indian so she could become an Affirmative Action hire at Harvard), the Democrat Party is gradually coming out of the closet as full-bore socialists. The State may not technically own all businesses, but given the heavy regulation and blatant targeting of companies like Gibson Guitars and regulatory attacks like Operation Choke Point against legal gun dealers … it’s become an increasingly semantic distinction. Call it ‘Regulatory Socialism.’
That’s just another weasel-word for “Fascism”…
Look at this from HRC’s point of view: aside from some after-school work she did when she was young, she’s never had a productive job.
She married a gifted politician (gifted and unethical) and parlayed her position into high office and multi-millionaire status.
I suppose it means that those of us not in “public service” are fools.
KCRob: In laymen’s terms…she slept her way to the top.
Let her keep talking. Everytime she opens her mouth she puts another nail in the coffin of her presidential campaign. “What difference does that make now?” will echo throughout the 2016 campaign season. Now that corporations and businesses don’t create jobs, sounds a lot like Obama’s “you didn’t build that.” She has the same mind set as BHO.
Fascism – definitely.
In Communism the State owns all (or almost all) businesses. The difference between that and Fascism is that, under Fascist rule, the State will allow you to own your business, as long as you do exactly what they make you do.
The boiled-down version of the motivating slogan in Mussolini’s Fascist Italy was “Everything for the State, Nothing outside the State, Nothing against the State”.