Subsidize auto companies, Clinton says in Kenosha

February 16th, 2008 at 09:36pm Chuck Sweeny

Hillary Clinton’s visit to Kenosha nightspot “the Brat Stop”

showed just how close her platform is to Barack Obama’s — or as she’d put it, how close Obama’s platform is to hers.

Both promise to end George W. Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans — mainly the 1 percent who make more than $250,000 a year. Both promise to make health care affordable to all, but Hillary’s plan is mandatory, Barack’s is not.

Basically, Hillary said Saturday that Congress has a good health care plan, and every American ought to be able to buy into it.

Restoring Amercian manufacturing is central to both candidates’ plans. Hillary said that the government should provide subsidies to the US auto industry, as European and Japanese governments do to auto companies do. Government provided health care would assist companies by removing a tremendous burden on them, she said.

Kenosha once was home to a sprawling, lakefront American Motors factory that made Nashes, then Ramblers. The site is now been made over into condos, shops, a park and museum.

Both promsie to end tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas.

After her speech and town hall meeting with about 400 supporters, she had a confab with reporters. She said that superdelegates, 796 big shots in the Democratic Party, should make up their own minds about whom to support at the Democratic Convention in Denver. And she said again that Michigan and Florida delegates should be seated. Clinton won both states, although she was the only candidate on the ballot in Michigan. Because those states moved up their primaries in violation of party rules, the DNC said their delegates wouldn’t count. So, no candidates campaigned there.

Obama says that for the states’ delegates to count, they should hold caucuses.

Clinton admitted that “this race is essentially tied” between her and Obama, but she insisted, as she has all along, that she’s the experienced candidate who can do battle effectively with Republicans.

Wisconsin votes Tuesday, and Clinton has, according to The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, scaled back her campainging in that state. The paper, Wisconsin’s largest, endorses Obama in Sunday’s editions.

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