Saturday Politics : Hillary Clinton - The Unfunded Trillion Dollar Spender of US Taxpayer Money

If you are weary with being called a bigoted racist Republican, let's consider the alternative. While mainstream media and Democrats have been vilifying the GOP, Hillary Clinton has been busy spending American taxpayer money. Recently, the Fiscal Times reported that in "costly campaign promises to appeal to her party’s liberal base, Clinton for now has made campaign promises costing slightly below $1 trillion." Some items : (1) increased spending on highways, bridges and infrastructure projects by $275 billion over five years, including funds for a national infrastructure bank to provide low-interest loans and other incentives to supplement overall federal spending on transportation; (2) $30 billion to rescue the economies of coal producing communities, including infrastructure, investment tax breaks and help for local schools and miners’ retirement and health benefits; (3) a college affordability plan to keep students attending public state colleges from having to borrow to pay tuition, and significant cuts in interest rates on student loans while enabling 25 million Americans with student debt to refinance at today’s rates, saving on average $2,000 over the life of their loans, at a cost $350 billion over ten years; (4) a childcare initiative to guarantee every four-year-old access to high quality pre-school education, similar to Obama’s universal childcare proposal estimated to cost $200 billion in subsidies over 10 years; (5) a target of a half billion solar panels installed in the US by the end of her first term as part of a major alternative energy initiative to generate enough renewable energy to power every home in the US, at a cost of $60 billion over a decade; and (6) $10 billion to treat addicts and attempt to limit the imprisonment of nonviolent drug offenders. ~~~~~ Not satisfied with a trillion dollars in new spending, Hillary intends to present more big-ticket policies and programs tucked into her speeches and reported by the mainstream media without mentioning their cost. Here's how her campaign website puts it : “Hillary will invest in infrastructure, clean energy, and scientific and medical research to create jobs and strengthen our economy....she’ll provide tax relief to working families and small businesses. That’s how we’ll move toward a full employment economy that creates jobs, pushes businesses to compete over workers, and raises incomes.” But, Clinton has not presented her tax reform package, which makes it impossible to calculate how much her spend-and-tax (maybe) policies would add to the long-term debt. In fact, Mrs. Clinton may actually be planning to follow in President Obama's progressive footsteps and simply keep raising the national debt until America collapses under its weight. Hillary boasted after the Democrat’s November 14 presidential debate : “I was actually the only one on that debate stage on Saturday who will commit to raising your wages and not your taxes. I can't see how you can be serious about raising incomes if you also want to slap new taxes on them, no matter what the taxes would pay for." ~~~~~ Dear readers, Hillary Clinton isn't content to spend a trillion US taxpayer dollars. Team Clinton now sees national security as a key 2016 issue. The deadly islamist jihadist terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino are being used by Clinton to tout her national security credentials. Clinton campaign officials believe she is well-positioned for a national security debate. But they don't mention that Hillary Clinton is joined at the hip to President Obama. The Obama-Clinton foreign policy led to Benghazi, the rise of ISIS, the collapse of Libya, the rise of Vladimir Putin and Iran as Syria/Iraq kingpins, a deal making Iran a nuclear power, and an historic low in US-Israel relations. Clinton cannot point to one foreign policy/national security success. If the Republican Party and GOP presidential candidates can stay calm and deliver their superior message without destroying each other, there is every reason to expect a Republican to move into the White House on January 20, 2017.