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Hillary Clinton is a Wall Street puppet

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a campaign event in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., on Tuesday.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a campaign event in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., on Tuesday. Bloomberg

Bernie Sanders is a New Deal Democrat. The fact of the matter is that the entire spectrum of U.S. politics has been skewed so much to the right thanks to Ayn Rand and the Reagan Revolution, people consider him radical. That is simply not true. He is calling for the same things FDR called for with his Second Bill of Rights: Employment (right to work); food, clothing and leisure — via enough income to support them; farmers’ rights to a fair income; freedom from unfair competition and monopolies; housing; medical care; social security; and education.

Furthermore, Hillary Clinton and her support of jailing blacks and saying she had to “bring them to heel” like animals is much more at home in the racist GOP. Clinton also supported the North American Free Trade Agreement, and recently she supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Clinton isn’t even a Democrat. She’s a Wall Street puppet, a figurehead for Government Sachs.

Josh Payne, Morro Bay

This story was originally published March 16, 2016 at 5:52 PM with the headline "Hillary Clinton is a Wall Street puppet."

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