Hillary Clinton

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts) Mon Jun 15, 2015, 08:39 PM Jun 2015

HRC GROUP Hillary and 'Economic Statecraft' - Singapore, November 2012

For those who say, "Hillary should tell us what she thinks," maybe we should just listen?

She was Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, and she did have a lot to say - not just those parts of sentences to fit a ginned-up negative narrative.

Transcript and video - not the clipped spin and misrepresentation, the whole enchilada!

I know, I know...it's complicated and wonky. But this is where the quote the haters use - "SoS Hillary Clinton was for TPP" - this is one of the 'sources' where they got that! They just edited out all the rest!

She may be for a good TPP, and her story has never changed - but don't we all want a good TPP? Right, Nancy Pelosi?

http://m.state.gov/md200664.htm

Hillary on the infamous TPP:

And with Singapore and a growing list of other countries on both sides of the Pacific, we are making progress toward finalizing a far-reaching new trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The so-called TPP will lower barriers, raise standards, and drive long-term growth across the region. It will cover 40 percent of the world's total trade and establish strong protections for workers and the environment. Better jobs with higher wages and safer working conditions, including for women, migrant workers and others too often in the past excluded from the formal economy will help build Asia's middle class and rebalance the global economy. Canada and Mexico have already joined the original TPP partners. We continue to consult with Japan. And we are offering to assist with capacity building, so that every country in ASEAN can eventually join. We welcome the interest of any nation willing to meet 21st century standards as embodied in the TPP, including China.

But this is Hillary, and this sounds like Hillary today:

But to take advantage of a more level playing field, American businesses must step up, too. Here in Singapore, U.S. firms operate on every corner. But elsewhere, too many are sitting on the sidelines. I hear it over and over when I travel: "Where are the American businesses?" And at a time when America's domestic growth depends more than ever on our ability to compete internationally, this has to change. And when U.S. businesses do compete, we want to work with them to make sure their suppliers at every link in the chain are meeting international standards like labor rights, intellectual property, and environmental impact.

And, finally, a level playing field means lowering the barriers that keep women from fully participating in the global economy. You knew I would get to that, didn't you? Mountains of evidence make this so abundantly clear. No nation can achieve the kind of growth that we all want and need if half the population never gets to compete. And we cannot afford any longer to exclude the energy and talent that women add to our economies.

The World Bank has done some ground-breaking research on this, pointing out what it would mean to tear down the barriers, some of them still very explicit. There are countries that deny women credit, there are countries that prevent women from opening businesses or running them without male fronts. There are countries that prevent women from inheriting businesses. There are so many still existing legal barriers. And then, of course, there are the attitudinal and cultural barriers that are somewhat less obvious, but no less difficult. And in the World Bank's research, tearing down all those obstacles would raise GDP everywhere in the world, including in my own country. In my own country it would be by nine percent.

So, think about what this would mean in a time where we are still facing global economic problems. And so I always say that we've got to do more, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because we cannot afford not to do it.

For the record, what she said - her actually saying it!