Clinton Unveils Elderly Care Plan

DEMOCRATIC United States presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said at the weekend she would “break up the big banks” if necessary and hold top financial executives accountable.

Clinton is additionally proposing a change in Social Safety to permit caregivers who drop out of the workforce to raise kids or look after elderly parents a credit towards their retirement advantages, & $100 million in grants to fund respite care programs to permit family caregivers to take day off from caring for relatives of any age.

Clinton has said she supports paid family leave but has not embraced a bill introduced by Kirsten Gillibrand, Clinton’s successor as a senator from NY, that dozens of progressive lawmakers have lined up behind in both chambers of Congress. And like her reservations about free trade, her new rebuke of charter schools suggests she’ll be less willing to challenge core Democratic constituencies than either her husband or Obama.

“I believe in fair market, American capitalism and that is a big difference between Secretary Clinton’s Wall Street crony capitalism and Senator Sanders’ socialism”, he said. Women go for Clinton over Fiorina by four points, while men back Fiorina by six points.

Asked to compare her personal and professional qualities to those of Sanders, Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters in the survey preferred Clinton by about 3-to-1 or higher ratios in a number of key areas: combating Islamic terrorism, having the life experience to be president, and knowing how to get things done in office. And each candidate officially signed paperwork that will put their name on the state’s ballot.

Speaking with reporters beforehand, Sanders acknowledged Clinton remains far ahead in terms of organization in SC, where the turnout will be dominated by black voters. A few party officials who remain undecided in the 2016 presidential race see her as overly cozy with big banks and other special interests. Her recent attacks on Bernie Sanders for his advocacy of a single payer health plan, which as I have noted she once supported, has resulted in considerable criticism from the left and a major nurses organization. “I will not deny that if the election were held today, we would lose”, he told reporters after his speech. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’M alley, also spoke separately. Sanders the more they like him.

“She was waving the bloody shirt of 9/11 to defend herself, which we’re accustomed to seeing with demagogues on the right, and it just didn’t feel quite right”, said Kurt Meyer, a co-chairman of the Mitchell County Democrats in Iowa, who has not endorsed a candidate.

On Saturday, O’Malley flatly said his campaign was not taking on debt to pay for travel and staff.

“For a long time watching the national news, I am sure you thought you only had two choices”.