Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) met with Bloomberg reporters and editors on Wednesday and during his meeting, Sanders said he does not believe, "based on her record" that Hillary Clinton is "prepared to take on the billionaire class" to address income inequality.
As we all know, Sanders is considering running for president in the 2016 Democratic primaries and clearly, based on his interview with the editors, Sanders is going to take on her absysmal record as U. S. Senator from New York for her votes she cast in support of Wall Street at the expense of the middle class and working class.
Sanders also went after Clinton on Tuesday in an interview with Thomas Robert on MSNBC:
"The American people want Secretary Clinton, all candidates, to talk about why the middle class continues to decline, why the rich get richer, why Wall Street continues to have unbelievable power over the American economy," Sanders said. "The American people not only want a serious debate on this campaign, they want candidates who will deal with the most important issue, and that is are we prepared to take on the billionaire class which has so much power over our economic and political life."
As senator from New York during the financial crisis, Clinton took every opportunity to defend Wall Street and the financial industry will reward her loyalty and send her millions to fill her campaign coffers.
But even when it comes to Hillary Clinton's personal wealth, Clinton has trouble being honest about their status as a member of the one per cent:
And the Clintons’ Personal wealth has grown into somewhat of a controversy, especially after Hillary told ABC’s Diane Sawyer that, “We came out of the White House not only dead broke but in debt.” She claimed that the legal fees from the Whitewater scandal and the impeachment trial ate up a large portion of the president’s $200,000 per-year presidential salary, leaving the couple $12 million in debt. Yet, both Hillary and Bill earned considerable incomes in the years after the White House; Hillary earned an $8 million advance to publish her first memoir, Living History, and drew an annual salary of $186,000 as Secretary of State, while Bill was paid a reported $15 million advance for his memoir, My Life. Those earnings allowed the couple to pay their debts and enabled them to acquire luxury real estate assets — including a $1.7 million mansion in Chappaqua, N.Y. The Clintons released tax returns during Hillary’s 2008 presidential run showed they had earned $109 million over eight years. And at the end of 2012, the Clintons were worth between $5 million and $25.2 million, and Hillary Clinton has earned sizable speaking fees from such financial giants as Bank of America and Carlyle Group.
She did write a 2008 opinion piece for the Journal that “if we are going to take on the mortgage debt of storied Wall Street giants, we ought to extend the same help to struggling, middle-class families.” But her interactions with the financial sector tell a different story, especially when compared with Elizabeth Warren’s activism.
So as you can see, Bernie Sanders hit the nail on the head when he said "It's not what she says, it's what she does."
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