Hillary Clinton Blasts the Profit Motive

Washington, DC (TLS). A major candidate for public office recently stated the following:

"The unfettered rein of financial profit is intolerable for the general interest," she said. "You told me simple truths. You told me you wanted fewer income inequalities. You told me you wanted to tax capital more than labor. We will do that reform."

Further, the candidate proposed to tax companies in relation to what share of their profits is reinvested in equipment and jobs, and what portion is paid to shareholders.

Sound familiar? It should. Last week Senator Hilliary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, and Democrat Presidential candidate decried the profits made by the oil companies, stating that she would 'take that money and put it in a federal pool to be invested in new energy technologies,' in an obvious endorsement of government-run energy monopolies and a slap at free enterprise, the basis of which is to make a profit for shareholders.

The problem is that Senator Clinton did not say the first set of quotations beginning with, 'The unfettered reign of financial profits is intolerable for the general interest.' She certainly could have said it, for it is entirely consistent with her remarks about the oil companies.

The person who uttered those words that began this article is a French Socialist--Ségolène Royal--who is the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party of France.

As the nightmarish term of Jacques Chirac draws to a close, the French seem to be willing to at least consider an unabashed Socialist for President, although recent polls show Ms. Royal trailing her closest opponent in the race. The thing that is even more nightmarish is how closely Hillary Rodham Clinton's views mirror that of the far-Left Socialist candidate for the French Presidency.

Political pundit and campaign consultant Dick Morris, who once worked closely with Hillary Clinton and refers to her as 'the most dangerous woman in America,' has stated that Hillary is a European-styled Socialist from the get-go. Despite her attempts to appear 'moderate' or to appeal to more conservative voters, Morris claims it is a fatal mistake to assume Hillary's views are anything but ultra-Leftwing. Her core values are that American free enterprise is not a good thing. The profit motive is evil (despite the fact that she herself personally benefited from good old capitalistic profit--more evidence of the elitist hypocrisy of the far-Left that maintains the ruling class doesn't have to live by the same rules they dump on everyone else).

Therefore, in Hillary's playbook, capitalism must be dismantled and replaced by a massive nanny state that gives away the freebies like Santa Claus from the cradle to the grave. The problem being, of course, that there is no such thing as a 'freebie.' What is free for one person has been paid for by someone else. And in this case, the freebies come at the expense of the American taxpayer.

Thus, if you want to see where a Hillary Clinton Presidency would take us, study France. If that's not enough to sober you up, nothing will.

To see just how closely Hillary's candidacy mirrors the French Socialist candidate, click here:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/11/news/france.php