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Bill Clinton: Focus on job growth, then deficit (CBS Interview Today)

source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/18/ftn/main20107872.shtml

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Source: CBS News

Former President Bill Clinton urged lawmakers on Capitol Hill to focus on stimulating growth in the U.S. economy before efforts to reduce the deficit.

"I think that we need to focus right now on putting the country back to work," Mr. Clinton said Sunday in an interview on CBS' Face the Nation.

"I'd like to see the economic plan that (President Obama) talked about in his address to Congress enacted first, then when the economy starts growing again in a year or two, then I'd like to put the hammer down on this deficit problem," Mr. Clinton told host Bob Schieffer.

The former president praised Mr. Obama's forthcoming proposal to raise taxes on the highest earning Americans, though he said he did not know the precise timing of when such a move would be implemented. "I think the president is doing the right thing," Mr. Clinton said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/18/ftn/main20107872.shtml

I watched Bob Schieffer's interview of Bill Clinton, and Bob was trying his best to put words in Bill Clinton's mouth to try to get him to accept Republican talking points. Thankfully, this article does pretty fairly capture what Bill said, rather than reporting Bob's set-up, "Dick Cheney has said..." as a comment that was actually made by Bill. At the end of the interview, Bob Schieffer even repeated a Republican talking point about Hillary running, and Bill shot that down and pointed that Republicans were just trying to sow discord among the Democrats.
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17 comments // Bill Clinton: Focus on job growth, then deficit (CBS Interview Today)

  • kimwebber
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      kimwebber  

    • Oh, c'mon. Liar? Fraud? Clinton didn't start with a great economy, he started with the pile that was left by Bush I. Obama has the pile left by Bush II, and a republican congress that is doing everything they can to make sure he isn't reelected. Frauds and Liars - anyone elected to help the American people but instead help international corporations.

    • 1 year ago
  • JohnA
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      JohnA [removed]  

    • If he were President I would agree. He had a great economy and I believe he means what he says. Obama is a liar and a fraud, I don't trust him with one dime more of American's tax dollars than absolutely neccessary.

    • 1 year ago
  • DDJohnAdams
  • VoyagerFilms
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      VoyagerFilms  

    • President Clinton is correct. It's the smart thing to do - however, those Rebup dogs will undoubtedly struggle against anything that President Obama does therefore, we need to get them out of office!

    • 1 year ago
  • FoosMaster
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      FoosMaster  
    • VoyagerFilms:

      Republicans don't care about jobs. If they allowed a jobs bill to pass that would actually work, not the voodoo BS about lowering taxes on the rich that has been PROVEN Not to work, then they know they would have No chance against Obama in the elections. That's why they will Never even consider Any jobs plan from Obama.

    • 1 year ago
  • JohnA
  • FoosMaster
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      FoosMaster  

    • I didn't like his NAFTA bill and I think that it is part of the Problem of our economy, but he Did have a budget Surplus so when he talks about budgets at least the Democrats that can't think for themselves Will listen to him.

    • 1 year ago
  • KB723
  • Schnookums
  • FoosMaster
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      FoosMaster  
    • KB723:

      I think he believed that the economy was so strong that he could pass NAFTA and the economy would survive And he would be able to appease the growing power of the Big Money interests. He just didn’t foresee all the tax breaks of the Shrub and the Long Term affects of the policy. If he had I am not sure that he would have passed it, but we will never know because Big Money can influence Almost anyone. *(I consider Carter to be the Only President that ignored the power of the Big Money, and look what happened)

    • 1 year ago
  • KB723
  • FoosMaster
  • FoosMaster
  • KB723
  • KB723
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      KB723 [removed]  

    • I watched Bob Schieffer's interview of Bill Clinton, and Bob was trying his best to put words in Bill Clinton's mouth to try to get him to accept Republican talking points. Thankfully, this article does pretty fairly capture what Bill said, rather than reporting Bob's set-up, "Dick Cheney has said..." as a comment that was actually made by Bill. At the end of the interview, Bob Schieffer even repeated a Republican talking point about Hillary running, and Bill shot that down and pointed that Republicans were just trying to sow discord among the Democrats.

    • 1 year ago
  • Schnookums
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      Schnookums  
    • KB723:

      I agree with what you're saying, but that also doesn't excuse Bill's overall very shitty contribution to the economy and his disingenuous ideas of how to fix it. Bill is a politician first, and he's playing politics.

      Saying the popular thing, "jobs first, deficit later" is what everyone wants to hear.....and it's true, we should be focusing every policy and department on domestic job production and jobs only.

      But Bill would have us completely ignore the fact, that going into debt (both personally and as a country) is how we grow our economy. Everyone thinks Bill was a financial god for getting the country to a surplus before he handed off to Bush Jr., but he was really playing dirty politics.

      He knew that people well into the future would perceive that action in a positive light, when he was actually helping contract the money supply of the country and purposefully handing George Bush a recession. Couple that with NAFTA, advocating for big businesses to be able to exploit China's labor with impunity, changing the way inflation is calculated to shaft Social Security recipients, massively deregulating the derivative markets, and as always, deferential to the military industrial complex; Bill can be summed up in only one way = Same Shit, Different Day.

    • 1 year ago
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