Hilarious: Hillary tries to 'clarify' nonsense that businesses don't create jobs

I suppose it's one advantage of lacking all seriousness and sincerity, that when you say something mind-blowingly stupid and you're catching heat for it, you just announce that you actually meant something else. Why not? All you really meant was, "Whatever will get you to vote for me . . . that."

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So, you're Hillary Clinton (forgive me for putting that on you), and you're being laughed at everywhere for the idiotic statement that businesses and corporations don't create jobs. That, if you missed it, would be the following statement . (youtube) How do you deal with this? A few things happen. First, someone explains to you - much to your surprise - that businesses and corporations actually do create jobs, and you just revealed yourself to be the economic ignoramus that those close to you actually already know you are. Oops! Well, no problem, because you have no conviction when it comes to anything that proceeds from your mouth. It's no longer useful to me to have made that statement? Fine. I meant something else. And here we are:

On Monday, Clinton went out of her way to correct the comment at a rally for Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the Democrat up for reelection in this Hudson Valley district. Clinton said in her speech that corporations that outsource jobs or move profits overseas should not be granted tax breaks. The clarification made clear that the remark was a botched line — not new messaging from Clinton, who has honed a new stump speech during a series of rallies ahead the election next month. “The Republican alternative is a discredited economic theory that will hurt middle class families,” Clinton said. “So-called trickle-down economics has failed.” “I short-handed this point the other day, so let me be absolutely clear about what I’ve been saying for a couple of decades.” “Our economy grows when businesses and entrepreneurs create good-paying jobs here in America and workers and families are empowered to build from the bottom up and the middle out — not when we hand out tax breaks for corporations that outsource jobs or stash their profits overseas.” A Clinton aide pointed to the remarks at the Maloney event as clarification to she had meant to say in her speech last week.

In many ways, this is even more mind-blowingly stupid than the original statement. For starters, they apparently think what matters here is whether or not she was offering "new messaging." No. That's about nothing but campaign tactics, and no one cares except idiots who read crap like the worst web site in the world. What matters is the substance of what she actually said, which is that businesses and corporations don't create jobs. Those were the words that came out of her mouth. There was no ambiguity to it, because a) she's dumb as a box of rocks; and b) she was speaking to a liberal audience that agrees with the statement 100 percent. So show does she now presume to "clarify" this intellectual projectile vomit? But explaining that, oh, what she really meant was that she disapproves of corporations who "outsource" jobs or "stash their profits overseas," and that she doesn't want to give them "tax breaks." That makes even less sense than what she said originally. Let's start with this: The only reason businesses "stash their profits overseas" is that the United States foolishly maintains a tax on repatriated profits. Companies who operate abroad and make money abroad can keep the money they earn there only if they keep it there. If they try to bring it back, they have to pay a tax on it. Solution: Repeal the tax on repatriated profits and watch as capital floods into the U.S. economy. Does Hillary Clinton even know this? I doubt it. Now, about the whole "outsourcing" nonsense, which Democrats (and far too many Republicans as well) blather about endlessly during campaigns: The task of a U.S. corporation is to limit its costs while maximizing the value and marketability of what it produces. If overseas providers of labor, goods or services prove to be a better option, then that is the right option to choose. That in no way changes the fact that jobs are only created when businesses and corporations offer them to people. Government doesn't do that. Only employers do, and it only happens when the person being offered the job has proven his or herself to be the most value-added option for the employer. If you don't want corporations getting "tax breaks" when they choose a certain method of securing labor, I have a solution: Get rid of all tax breaks. Simplify the tax code so everyone pays one, simple rate, and stop giving breaks to some while denying them to others on the basis of certain choices they make. Do you think Hillary Clinton would support that? I doubt it. Then again, I doubt she even knows enough about the tax code to know it's an issue. Every time this woman speaks, she reveals only one thing: She's astonishingly ignorant and stupid, and completely unqualified for the presidency. The fact that she's even gotten this far as a candidate taken seriously reveals that this nation is drowning in absurdity, and may be completely beyond hope.