Hillary Clinton: “Don’t Let Anyone Tell You It’s Corporations and Businesses that Create Jobs”; Ten Spectacular Failures

On October 24, while campaigning for Martha Coakley for governor of Massachusetts, Hillary Clinton made one of the most absurd political statements in history “Don’t Let Anyone Tell You It’s Corporations and Businesses that Create Jobs.”
Clinton continued, “You know that old theory, trickledown economics. That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly. One of the things my husband says when people say, ‘What did you bring to Washington?’ He says, ‘I brought arithmetic.’”
Wow.
Just in case you think that quote is out of context, here’s a video clip courtesy of Town Hall;


This post was published at Global Economic Analysis on October 27, 2014.