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Face it, Hillary Clinton simply can’t be trusted

Yes, the fix was in! Don’t act so surprised.

Whenever Democrats are involved, and especially the Obama administration, you can expect cheating, lying, stealing and other kinds of chicanery. They cover for each other, for not only are they the progenitors of “ cheat to win,” they have perfected it to a fine art.

According to the FBI report, Hillary Clinton said she didn’t “intentionally” send or receive classified documents or information. Okay, she did it unintentionally. Those people ought to be on a stage doing comedy. What a laugh.

How does one explain this administration? Obama won’t use the term “Islamist terrorists” because this might upset the Muslims in the world. This is especially interesting since radical Muslims are killing more Muslims in the name of Allah than they are killing foreigners. He and Loretta Lynch are propagating the idea that we need to extend “love” to the Muslims and they will then stop the killing. (That must be another line from their comedy show.)

By the same reasoning, we should not indict serial or mass killers. They really didn’t intend to kill so many people; they just got carried away with the thrill of it all. Will that plea work for anyone but HRC? (Time for another laugh.)

Wasn’t it the Democrats under LBJ who said we would wipe out poverty in the U.S. in 10 years? So let’s start with $100 million, folks. It is now more than $3 trillion and climbing. In fact, more people have been enrolled in 7 years under President Obama than ever before in the 50 years of the “War on Poverty.”

It never was a war on poverty; it was just a scheme to get more people to vote Democrat. You know, you don’t have to work, the government is there to take care of you from the cradle to the grave.

Then the next scheme was to establish a program to take care of all their health needs. Gee, that sounds just like Medicaid. Then, they found out that they weren’t taking enough money from people who work for a living so they came up with the program called Obamacare.

Their latest scheme is to increase the “living wage.” (No laughing, folks, until you hear the punch line.) What constitutes a living wage? Do we leave the answer to the politicians who have never had to meet a payroll? It seems to me that the owner of the business should decide what a proper wage would be for his business. He’s the one taking the risk – not the politician, nor the worker.

Just remember, the worker is free to stay or go if he is not satisfied with either his wage or working conditions. (Okay, get ready to laugh.) Democrats, in their infinite wisdom, have made it extremely difficult for those receiving welfare to spend time either looking for a job or even to take a job that’s offered. Welfare recipients accrue sufficient funds monthly to discourage them from working. There is absolutely no incentive to get them off welfare rolls. There is only one reason for all these government programs. Democrats offer voters all these freebies just to guarantee their vote come election day.

People, try to name even one government program that has fulfilled the needs it was designed to meet. You can’t. (It is now time to laugh until it hurts.)

And remember this: Hillary lied and four Americans died. Do you really want this incompetent, untrustworthy woman who was “extremely careless” in handling classified material as commander-in-chief?

The writer lives in Myrtle Beach.

This story was originally published August 7, 2016 at 9:51 AM with the headline "Face it, Hillary Clinton simply can’t be trusted."

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