Seven Years After He Left Office, Hillary Still Blaming Bush for Poverty

‘Look at what President Bush inherited from my husband’

ROSE: "One of the four questions the president suggested for the country had to do with those who have and those who have not. Vice President Biden said -- suggested that you were a newcomer to the issue of income inequality."
CLINTON: "Well, you know, I have the greatest respect for him, but I think anyone who looks at my record, starting when I went to work as a young lawyer for the children's defense fund, working as a legal services lawyer, all the way up to my public service knows that I have been fighting to even the odds for people all my life."
ROSE: "But more people are in poverty today than they were when the president assumed office?"
CLINTON: "Well, Charlie, that was because of the Great Recession. I mean, look at what President Bush inherited from my husband. 23 million new jobs, incomes going up for everyone, more people lifted out of poverty then at any time in our nation's recent history, and they dismantled it. They had huge tax cuts, wouldn't pay for the wars that the president waged. They took their eyes off the mortgage market and the financial market. Yes, we fell into a Great Recession, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And it's been a challenge to dig us out of a ditch that the president had nothing to do with digging. And I'm very grateful that the auto industry was saved, that we have now recovered more than 13 million new jobs. But have we solved all the problems that were caused by going back to trickle down failed economic policies? No. We still have work to do. But I'm confident we're on the right track, and our economy is sure stronger than anybody else in the world right now."
ROSE: "That's why a political campaign should be about the future."
CLINTON: 'That's right."
ROSE: "Secretary Clinton, thank you."
CLINTON: "Great to talk to the three of you."

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