Lately, I’ve been seeing a bumper sticker stating, “I’m Ready for Hillary.”
A recent column published on this page talked about Hillary Clinton’s failure to balance the books on the nonprofit globalist group, the Clinton Global Initiative, which has raised more than $492 million since its inception in 1997. There have been many questions raised on how CGI has been funded and where all this money is coming from.
However, from 2007-08, CGI managed to rack up $40 million in debt. In 2012, the CGI ran up another $8 million deficit despite making $214 million that year. With our huge national debt of more than $17 trillion, does it bother anyone that Clinton cannot even balance her own books?
Under Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state from 2009-10, foreign aid to Afghanistan went from $470 million to $1.4 billion. Under Afghan President Hamid Karzai, there was so much fraud that no one knows where all this money actually went ”“ which, by the way, was our tax money. How much more good it could have done if all that lost money would have been focused here in the U.S.
Clinton received a $14 million advance from publisher Simon & Schuster for her book, “Hard Choices,” which has only sold 160,000 copies to date, realizing the publisher only $2.4 million. Many question that this was nothing more than an arrangement for an illegal campaign contribution disguised as an author’s advance.
Clinton was a hawkish secretary of state. She has been and still would be willing to take the U.S. into wars. Both President Obama and Clinton claim to oppose war, yet they both supported huge troop increases in Afghanistan. Clinton believes in striking first and asking questions later. Not a great place to be in as the leader of the free world, is it? She still believes that our country should remain as the world’s policeman. This is a very destructive stance, as we would never be free of our involvement in wars and skirmishes somewhere on the globe.
Frankly, folks, this country can do so much better and so can the Democrats putting forth a more credible, more honest, truthful candidate rather than Clinton. However, if having millions of dollars in a political war chest is going to get you elected, then “poor” Clinton will win by a landslide. She is one of the most deceptive, dishonest and ruthless people to ever consider running for the presidency.
So I guess the question remains: “Are you ready for Hillary?”
Carmine Castaldo,
North Waterboro
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