Posted: 4/25/15 at 9:08am
Sorry PJ. But that's a load of BS.
I've spent pretty much my entire adult life working with the poor. I'm the director of a non profit mental health clinic located in an inner city high school. In addition I do a ton of advocacy work on issues surrounding poverty.
And over the past 8 years I've watched things get worse for people living in poverty. I've seen the number of homeless kids explode in my school. There is not one class in session at the school where I work that doesn't have at least one homeless student in it. Most have more than one. I've seen the horrible effects of Obama's disastrous education policy (which Clinton seems to be on board with). I've watched families I work with get their food stamps cut by a bill signed into law by President Obama. I've watched as employees in my program, all of whom have masers degrees, have to get a second job so they can afford things like child care. The poor are getting demonized, the middle class is shrinking, and this is all happening under a Democratic president.
Income inequality is at record levels in this country. It's a crisis. And as her own record shows, Hillary Clinton is not the person to solve this problem. She's pro Wall Street, pro fracking, she voted for the Iraq war, by all accounts she was the most hawkish member of the Obama administration. It's not that I don't think Clinton is a perfect candidate, I think she's an awful one.
If you think Goldman Sachs money is more noble than Koch bros money, just because the candidate has a D after her name, you're fooling yourself.

