2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton to take on corporate culture in economic speech
New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton will use her second economic speech as a presidential candidate to ask businesses to "break free from the tyranny of today's earnings report" and instead take the long view on growth and corporate culture.
Progressives are hungry to see Clinton take on Wall Street, but according to Clinton's aides and a preview of the speech, Friday's event at New York University will not be chock full of the Wall Street red meat that liberals are pining for.
Instead, Clinton will outline a series of policy proposals that she hopes will rebuild "a connection between companies and their workers, so that workers are seen as assets rather than costs," an aide said on Thursday night.
Clinton will specifically knock companies for their "focus on short-term profits rather than long-term investment."
"She will say American business needs to break free from the 'tyranny of today's earnings report' so they can build tomorrow's prosperity in a way that drives income growth for everyday Americans," the aide said.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/24/politics/hillary-clinton-economic-speech-2016-new-york/
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)still_one
(92,422 posts)Trajan
(19,089 posts)But now she feels compelled?
Hmmm ... I wonder why? ..
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)HFRN
(1,469 posts)el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)And free of anything she can be pinned down on in the general election campaign when she reverts to being the Senator from Goldman Sachs.
CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)...Right? Repeated several times every day on DU.
I wonder why then she just doesn't come and say the extreme Leftie rhetoric that she knows you are dying to hear. I mean she lies anyway, right? So why not fill her speeches with all of the extreme rhetoric Bernie supporters laud Bernie for?
perhaps she's based in reality....and knows what she can actually accomplish whe she gets into the Whitehouse.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Whenever you call on, ask, or implore an entity to do something - that's not in their nature or interest - instead of making them, it's toothless fluff. You can't shame them into it. Think of it as being similar to calling on racist cops to heed the better angels of their nature and stop shooting black people in the back.
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)I would like for Corporations behave that way, but this is just a cute phrase. How would she get them to do that?
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Keep 'em coming!
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Yes, a tepid plea = great policy proposal.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)After her speech and take some regulatory measure of the table like she did with Glass Steagall after the last one? I just don't believe her on these things.
mmonk
(52,589 posts)It starts very slowly.