Hillary Clinton Advocates "Poverty Czar"

I love how on the anniversary of MLK's murder, Hillary proposes the idea of a "poverty czar" and passes it off as her own. An idea by the way, first proposed by, you guessed it, MLK. I swear Hillary can't come up with an original idea or commercial.

The embodiment of hypocrisy. A poverty czar. How disgusting can she get? Taking all the donations from poor workers, while she is making millions a year. At least the disgusting Romney spent his own money.

So let me get this straight:

Bill earns $6 million for a book called "Giving" about how great charity is

Gives only $1 million charity

Pockets $5 million????!!!!

Now they're talking about a poverty czar????

LOL. I think Rev. Wright was right -- the Clintons are "riding us dirty" like he was "riding Monica".

Big deal, this costs her nothing and potentially gets the Edwards endorsement which is no big deal, everyone assumes she's getting it.

YEAH . . .

And the Poverty Czar will be . . .

MARK PENN . . .

Hillary's number one, that's numero uno, top advisor . . . who, as I write . . .

IS WORKING FOR . . .

COLUMBIA . . .

LOBBYING CONGRESS . . . on behalf of Hillary, too . . .

for . . .

ANOTHER NAFTA . . .

Yeah. Poverty czar.

Healthcare, too - WHILE SHE RECEIVES MORE MONEY THAN ANY OTHER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FROM BIG PHARMACEUTICALS, BIG INSURANCE AND BIG MEDICINE!!!

YEAH.

I think we can trust her. Don't you?

Do I smell bribe??? This is clearly an effort to put Edwards in her hip pocket and lay claim to his supporters.

This offer expires on May 6th when the polls close in North Carolina. Wink, wink John Edwards.

Hillary you claim to have so much experience yet, you"re always calling for a commission, czar or committee to study an issue.
Hillary, Hello!! These are problems that have been studied, and contemplated to the hilt.
Hillary, every think tank, college, university et. cet. has folks who do nothing but study, contemplate and pontificate on the types of issues Americans are facing.
Hillary, every week someone comes out with a book, position paper or proposal
Hillary, the more you talk the more folks realize that your purported experience isn"t all that you profess. If your experience were as you profess, why all of the calls for committees and czars? Don"t you have the answers?
Hillary, while you're at it, try acknowledging that your votes on banking/lending and corporation regulations have been for some of the most disastrous legislation passed in generations.
Hillary your votes have helped to create the mess in Iraq, as well as helped create the financial mess that Americans face.
Hillary, while your committees and czars will take months or longer putting together proposals Americans are dying in Iraq, having their homes foreclosed, losing their jobs, going bankrupt¦
Hillary, the time to act is now! Show some experience and come up with something substantive NOW.
America it"s 3:00am and Hillary"s on the phone and, she"s "¦talking loud and saying nothing¦" to paraphrase James Brown

Ummm... "Poverty Czar" is an oxymoron. No really it is. The definintion of Czar is as follows:

1. an emperor or king.
2. (often initial capital letter) the former emperor of Russia.
3. an autocratic ruler or leader.
4. any person exercising great authority or power in a particular field

When is that last time we had a Czar that actually worked? Drug Czar. Education Czar. War Czar.

hey john edwards are you listening? she's talking to you.

I understand that some 70 school buses pull up to the Minneapolis downtown shelter every morning, and deliver homeless kids to schools throughout the city. If we didn't go any further, it seems obvious that we don't need a cabinet level czar. What we need, is a president to proclaim what s/he will do the first day in office, to end poverty. Once the plan is executed, there will be no need for a cabinet level czar.

I resent Clinton or any other candidate stomping on the overwhelming disaster that exists, in order to create campaign kudos.

Wow! Clinton proposes a wonderful new position dedicated to eradicate poverty and the Obamafans on this site find a way to criticize her! I didn't think it could be done, but you have all crossed a new line in your utter lowness. Let's see how you all react when Obama copies this plan and announces it next week (like he did with Clinton's economic plan, Iraq withdrawal, position on talking to Cuba, immigration, etc). He sure is lucky that she gets all the debate questions first!!

I think this is a great idea! (I'm an Obama supporter.)

Hillary really anounced she want to create a new position where she can appoint another one of her cronies. Just like she did during the travelgate incident. Why can't people see how she is hiding behind her smoke screen.

Hillary needs to appoint Mark Penn as the Poverty Czar.

Picture republicans creating a poverty czar and appointing Rupert Murdoch, wouldn't that be a fixed and biased concept................

Does anyone else find this offensive? I mean, hire some guy, pay him some obscene amount of money to oversee poverty. Meanwhile, the people who fall under the category of poverty are not receiving any monetary help.

Sorry, but to pay some guy big bucks to take a look at the poverty stricken - why not just put that money towards those people? That would certainly help them out!

yes i agree that we will need a poverty czar especially after the Clintons are done paying off foreign leaders for bankrolling their personal wealth, and Penn for pushing Colombia's gov't interests. Who needs poor Americans!

I agree with Webdeb... great comment!

Poverty Czar? What about a Working class Czar? Listen, I am a social worker working in a depressed area. I work with lots of poor people. Most of them have legitimate problems that keep them from working. Most of them live off of $600 or $700 a month and receive Medicaid most of the time and most are on some type of subsized housing. Although this does not sound like very much it is something. What about the working class? They don't make enough to live on but they make too much to receive any assistance. The dirt poor in this country, who don't have very much at all, have it better than the working class in this country in some cases. Most working class do not receive healthcare, or if they have it, they are paying some outragous premiums that eat up a good portion of their paycheck. What is wrong with this picture? People wonder why it so hard for people to get off assistance/welfare? Maybe because they will not have healthcare if they start working a minimum wage job at Walmart. Maybe because the cost of childcare would be as much as the paycheck they bring home. This is not rocket science. Poor people don't want to become "working class" because they may end up being worse off.

Might be a good idea. She should give herself a lot of practice by appointing a Truth Czar for her campaign though.

Perhaps ALL politicians would do well to utilize the workforce that is in place. We do not need a cabinete position to handle every aspect of this country. There are many career civil servants, that if allowed to pursue their jobs free of partisan b.s. could achieve the very things that the politicians rail about. Why waste more money creating more bureaucracy when there are those more than qualified to handle the problems?

Hillary is calling for a 'poverty czar' on the anniversary of Dr. King's death, lining up with the wishes of Dr. King's son. Clever political move in attempt to undo some of the damage done. Reminds me of Felix the Cat....That cartoon character, who's theme song went: "Whenever he gets in a fix he reaches into his bag of tricks!"

Those in power in Washington are already in a position to address poverty and have been for decades. But, there is no profit in eliminating it. As long as people can be taken advantage of by wealthy business owners, bankers, lenders, employers, insurance companies and the like, poverty will remain. As long as those in power live in their hip pockets, things won't change. Hillary represents "old Washington ideals" so this is smoke and mirrors.

Today, if you are ill and can't work, you miss a credit card payment and your interest rate soars while your credit rating dives. You pay more for car insurance, higher interest rates on loans, will probably have trouble getting a job, health insurance, life insurance, etc. Access to credit information is available to anyone with statistics showing it impacts their profits. The impoverished are those who can least afford to pay more money for the same services. You can defer payment with no "penalty" if your credit score good. It isn't enough to live in poverty, one has to be penalized for it. There is no incentive to change that.