Chump Change


This sort of stuff is exactly why Hillary Clinton pisses me off, to put it bluntly. Yeah, I'll vote for her come November if my "choice" is between New Coke and Pepsi/she and Johnny Mac are the last two standing (and if her clock isn't getting cleaned in the Gret Stet), but this sort of pandering/cynically stooping to lowest common denominator stuff bites.

If she knows better, well then goddamn her for being such a cynic. If she honestly believes a drop-in-the-chump-change bucket will somehow be a net benefit--even as the tax burden simply shifts elsewhere, and even as people who get paid with receipts from gas taxes (like road crews) lose their jobs--then she's not qualified...

Now, of course I think it's the former--Clinton is a highly qualified and highly talented individual. But every day Clinton demonstrates that she'd say or do anything to get elected... literally anything. And if she's willing to proffer an essentially empty gesture to hard-working individuals in exchange for votes, imagine how willing she'd be to sell out their interests when the pro quo for her quid is money and/or power.