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Hillary Clinton or Wal-Mart for Health Care?
By Jackson Simpson
Apr 28, 2007
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took what many thought was a backhanded shot at American retail giant Wal-Mart during a debate this week with the other Democratic presidential candidates.
When debate moderator Brian Williams asked presidential candidate Hillary Clinton last night whether she thought that Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
(NYSE: WMT) was bad or good for America, some strong words came out reports 'Hillary Clinton Criticism of Wal-Mart Answered
"Well because when Wal-Mart started, it brought goods into rural areas, like rural Arkansas where I was happy to live for 18 years.And it gave people a chance to stretch their dollar further.
But as they grew much bigger, though, they have raised serious questions about the responsibility of corporations and how they need to be a leader when it comes to providing health care and having safe working conditions and not discriminating on the basis of sex or race or any other category."
She added, "Brian, this is all part, though, of how this Administration and corporate America today don't see middle class and working Americans.
They are invisible.
They don't ...
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