The economic stagnancy of the Obama years is to blame for plummeting
life expectancy rates among white, working-class Americans, according to former
president Bill Clinton, who privately told Democratic donors that lower-income
whites “don’t have anything to look forward to when they get up in the
morning.” http://www.clintontarium.com
Clinton made the remarks while speaking to at a November 2015
closed-door fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in Canton, Ohio.
Echoing a theme of Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign, the
former president expressed his concern that white, working-class Americans have
been left behind over the last eight years.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton shakes hands with U.S. President
Barack Obama after a discussion about healthcare at the Clinton Global Initiative
(CGI) in New York September 24, 2013. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson Former U.S. President Bill Clinton shakes
hands with U.S. President Barack Obama after a discussion about healthcare at
the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in New York September 24, 2013.
REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Clinton expressed his frustration with the most recent (at that time)
Democratic debate, which he said lacked a single mention of the fact that “84
percent of the American people, after inflation, had not had a raise of 1 cent
since the financial crash.”
“We have incredible debates all
over America that shouldn’t exist between people in different racial groups
because they don’t trust law enforcement anymore,” he continued. “And in the
middle of all this we learned, breathtakingly, that middle-aged,
non-college-educated white Americans’ life expectancy is going down and is now
lower than Hispanics, even though they make less money.”
“And the gap between African Americans and whites is closing, but
unfortunately not because the death rate among African Americans is dropping
but because the death rate among white Americans is rising.” Clinton continued.
“Why? Because they don’t have anything to look forward to when they
get up in the morning. Because their lives are sort of stuck in neutral.
Because their lives are sort of stuck in neutral.”
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Donors The Border Won’t Be Secure ‘For A Very Long Time’)
The transcript from the fundraiser was — along with thousands of
emails — hacked from campaign chair John Podesta’s email account and later
published by anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks.
But, here's the deal.
So why is it such a wacky election? Because, millions and millions and
millions and millions of people look at that pretty picture of America he
painted and they cannot find themselves in it to save their lives.
That explains everything. That explains a lot of intensity in our
party, and what looks to the outside observer like a grade school playground
fight in the other debates, in the other party.
People are upset, frankly, they're anxiety-ridden, they're
disoriented, because they don't seem themselves in that picture.
Hillary is running for president to put every single American in the
picture President Obama painted.
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