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reformist2

(9,841 posts) Sat Oct 3, 2015, 07:23 AM Oct 2015

This is a preview of what an HRC presidency would be - Paid opinion makers, badgering us to support [View all]

whatever "third way" BS that HRC happened to be peddling next. It will be a never-ending ad campaign, ordering us into submission.

I can already hear the sock puppets now:

"We've got to support this new free trade bill, Hillary is supporting it, and to oppose her would be bad for party unity!"

"We've got to support HRC's bombing of Syria and Iraq - it's not being done for big oil, it's being done for humanitarian reasons!"

"Hillary's proposal to have college students work 20 hours a week while in school in order to qualify for government loans is genius!!"

"We've got to support HRC's banking deregulation campaign - higher stock prices lift all boats, even those of the poor!!!"

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This is a preview of what an HRC presidency would be - Paid opinion makers, badgering us to support [View all] reformist2 Oct 2015 OP

Please make Correction in your OP--Her proposal says 10hrs/week riversedge Oct 2015 #1

Is Hillary's New College Compact truly debt free though? NorthCarolina Oct 2015 #4

Sanders college tuition plan would provide free college for the 1%, do they need welfare? Thinkingabout Oct 2015 #27

Free education at public colleges and universities is about way more than economics. tk2kewl Oct 2015 #30

I don't look at educating our young people to compete on a global scale as "welfare". NorthCarolina Oct 2015 #31

I am talking about the young people of the 1%, don't you think they can afford to educate their Thinkingabout Oct 2015 #33

Sure they can, and I don't believe Bernie is talking about making Yale, or Harvard tuition free. NorthCarolina Oct 2015 #37

Do you think Chelsea Clinton needed to have her college education paid? Yes there are colleges Thinkingabout Oct 2015 #39

I suspect your irritations NorthCarolina Oct 2015 #41

No, where have I said anything about poor families gaining access to proper education? Thinkingabout Oct 2015 #45

And you are SO irate about the possibility of the 1% NorthCarolina Oct 2015 #47

GEEZE, why can't this be given to those who need it rather than the ones who can well afford to send Thinkingabout Oct 2015 #48

Sorry, but I'm not going to humor NorthCarolina Oct 2015 #49

Hillthink AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #52

So screw the other 99%? AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #51

There needs to be some limits, just as finanical aid is based on some limits, welfare for the 1% is Thinkingabout Oct 2015 #70

Free tuition at public colleges AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #74

I know the type... NorthCarolina Oct 2015 #79

Doubtful the 1% will be sending their kids to community college AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #50

Yes, I already pointed that out in a post above NorthCarolina Oct 2015 #56

And also the remaining 99% Scootaloo Oct 2015 #55

The benefit for low income families vastly outweighs jkbRN Oct 2015 #60

Education is not welfare. It's an investment. And even though they don't "pay their fair share" Bread and Circus Oct 2015 #62

welfare is not "welfare." It's an investment in not becoming Calcutta or Rio yurbud Oct 2015 #65

That is true and I am good example of it. I grew up on AFDC / food stamps / section 8 housing Bread and Circus Oct 2015 #69

my family was on food stamps now my dad and I both have masters yurbud Oct 2015 #85

it isn't welfare restorefreedom Oct 2015 #71

If they have paid in their fair share of taxes they should be entitled to the same benefit LondonReign2 Oct 2015 #90

Yep everyone is going to have to step up. zeemike Oct 2015 #8

We can’t expect the federal government just to pay the bill for free. That’s not how America works. sulphurdunn Oct 2015 #12

There's something Orwellian in her declaration that free tuition is "not how America works"... reformist2 Oct 2015 #59

America works the way the American People say it works. Maedhros Oct 2015 #75

Well said. I deeply resent being told "how America works." reformist2 Oct 2015 #83

Free public schools for all through Grade 12 are one of the great things about America, but add a merrily Oct 2015 #84

The work requirement just has to go. Chan790 Oct 2015 #17

And yet I worked 10 hours a week in a college writing lab Generic Other Oct 2015 #42

The point is AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #53

I felt very empowered knowing I was paying some of my own way Generic Other Oct 2015 #67

Jesus! I thought that part of OP was satire. Most of my college students work full time yurbud Oct 2015 #61

in the 80's, my grants and loans covered everything including room and board otherwise, my choice yurbud Oct 2015 #63

$200 billion over ten years is less than chump change in DC. yurbud Oct 2015 #66

from your link questionseverything Oct 2015 #78

Exactly what I believe would happen. djean111 Oct 2015 #2

Don't forget her son-in-law. DrBulldog Oct 2015 #11

Yep. The psyops won't stop if she were to get the nomination. They'll stay cranked up to hound GoneFishin Oct 2015 #3

Your post makes Skidmore Oct 2015 #5

It means that the Members of the HRC room will all be getting paid for posting leveymg Oct 2015 #6

I don't alert unless a post is bigoted against marginalized groups or obviously tblue37 Oct 2015 #18

It was a joke. Cheez-itz leveymg Oct 2015 #46

Hillary Clinton is NOT trustworthy. 99Forever Oct 2015 #7

Sounds like all that money, time, and effort pandr32 Oct 2015 #23

It has NOTHING to do with what fucking "Republicans" say. 99Forever Oct 2015 #32

When you have no logical argument, go with the "I do not trust her" catch all. Fred Sanders Oct 2015 #28

You have no counter argument... 99Forever Oct 2015 #34

Sanders hasn't been selling us on how eager he is to compromise with Republcians on everything Scootaloo Oct 2015 #57

Thanks to Bernie I am now dreaming of and hoping for . . . DrBulldog Oct 2015 #9

You should take a little time to read up on HC pandr32 Oct 2015 #24

Being to the Left of Bill is no accomplishment, given that he is the President who gave us Maedhros Oct 2015 #77

Dogs and Cats, living together ... MASS HYSTERIA!!!! JoePhilly Oct 2015 #10

Good point. MannyGoldstein Oct 2015 #14

What would it be like with Jeb president? Darb Oct 2015 #13

Why? nt MannyGoldstein Oct 2015 #15

Well in that case ... starroute Oct 2015 #16

I don't mean to be blasphemous, but have you ever seen Cthulu and the tblue37 Oct 2015 #19

Cthulhu is the Flying Spaghetti Monster's evil mirror universe twin starroute Oct 2015 #22

LMAO! beam me up scottie Oct 2015 #20

If you are going to vote for evil do you pick someone that is evil because of A Simple Game Oct 2015 #21

LOL TransitJohn Oct 2015 #44

I don't like wasting time. No thanks. 840high Oct 2015 #64

DU will become intolerable for traditional Democrats, and most will stop posting here. nt Zorra Oct 2015 #25

Maybe you can find somewhere else to go. leftofcool Oct 2015 #35

Why does she need support if she's so damn inevitable? Bread and Circus Oct 2015 #86

Her inevitability depends upon a relentless ad campaign telling us she's inevitable. It's brainwashi reformist2 Oct 2015 #89

"have college students work 20 hours a week " SusanCalvin Oct 2015 #26

No one is paying me for asking support for Hillary, yes she has campaign workers who she pays, Thinkingabout Oct 2015 #29

you are really doubling down on that lie? ibegurpard Oct 2015 #38

Wanting to intervene in a genocide is not "bombing Yugoslavia" and doesn't make one a war hawk. beam me up scottie Oct 2015 #58

in other words ibegurpard Oct 2015 #36

Combined total of 40 million jobs. BlueWaveDem Oct 2015 #40

and ibegurpard Oct 2015 #43

If you think the American worker is better off in the past 24 years... 16 of them w/ a Dem Prez Bread and Circus Oct 2015 #76

For a preview of a GOP presidency cheapdate Oct 2015 #54

This message was self-deleted by its author Corruption Inc Oct 2015 #68

This is a preview of a Sanders presidency workinclasszero Oct 2015 #72

This is a good long look at 206 bills sponsored and co/sponsored by Bernie and passed into law: beam me up scottie Oct 2015 #73

That's what we have now AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #88

it is 10 hours wk=-not 20 as your OP say.... riversedge Oct 2015 #80

She will also ... NanceGreggs Oct 2015 #81

We can't let that happen. azmom Oct 2015 #82

I call it McGovernment™ AgingAmerican Oct 2015 #87