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Dems in New Hampshire EDITOR’S NOTE: A look at political claims that take shortcuts with the facts or don’t tell the full story WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton cast the financial industry as an adversary in her presidential campaign — despite the money that industry has poured into her White House effort. Bernie Sanders once again mischaracterized the share of the wealth taken by the very richest Americans. A look at some of the claims in their latest Democratic presidential debate: CLINTON on Wall Street: “They are trying to beat me in this primary.” THE FACTS: Wall Street is not the anti-Clinton monolith she implied. People in the securities and investment industry gave more than $17 million last year to super political action committees supporting her presidential run and nearly $3 million directly to her campaign, according to OpenSecrets.org, a campaign-finance watchdog. Wall Street is the top industry donating to her effort, ahead of the legal profession, nonprofit institutions and others. Clinton is taking heat from Sanders for her Wall Street ties, which go back decades. The Washington Post reported Thursday that Clinton has brought in more money from the financial sector during her four federal campaigns — for Senate and president — than her husband, Bill Clinton, did in his quarter-century political career. In all, more than $44 million was raised for her campaigns. This includes more than $1 out of every $10 of the money contributed for her 2016 campaign. SANDERS: “Almost all new income and wealth is going to the top 1 percent.” THE FACTS: This has been a mantra by Sanders, but it relies on outdated numbers. In the first five years of the economic recovery, 2009-2014, the richest 1 percent captured 58 percent of income growth, according to Emmanuel Saez, a University of California economist whose research Sanders uses. That’s a hefty share, but far short of “almost all.” In the first three years of the recovery, 2009-2012, the richest 1 percent did capture 91 percent of the growth in income. But part of that gain reflected an accounting maneuver as the wealthiest pulled income forward to 2012 in advance of tax
increases that took effect in 2013 on the biggest earners. CLINTON: “I am against American combat troops being in Syria and Iraq. I support special forces. I support trainers. I support the air campaign.” THE FACTS: Clinton makes a dubious distinction. Although it can be debated whether certain types of military personnel fit the definition of “combat” troops, there is little doubt that special operations forces like those now operating both in Syria and Iraq do. SANDERS: “You have three out of the four largest banks in America today, bigger than they were, significantly bigger than when we bailed them out because they were too big to fail.” THE FACTS: Sanders is right that JPMorgan, Bank of America and Wells Fargo are larger than they were in mid-2008, before they received bailout money. But those gains largely reflect mergers and acquisitions that occurred, frequently at the government’s behest, during the financial crisis. JPMorgan bulked up by purchasing Bear Stearns, in a deal facilitated by the Federal Reserve. Bank of America ballooned when it acquired Merrill Lynch, and Wells Fargo roughly doubled in size when it bought a floundering Wachovia Bank. CLINTON on Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal: “I said that I was holding out hope that it would be the kind of trade agreement that I was looking for. I waited until it had actually been negotiated because I did want to give the benefit of the doubt to the administration. Once I saw what the outcome was, I opposed it.” THE FACTS: As Obama’s secretary of state, Clinton was far more enthusiastic about the Pacific trade deal taking shape than she became once she was running for president and trying to appeal to the liberal wing of her party. As secretary she had given speeches around the world in support of the deal under negotiation, saying in Australia in 2012 that it “sets the gold standard in trade agreements,” a cheerleading sentiment she echoed elsewhere. She’s stated since that the final agreement didn’t address her concerns. But the final version actually had been modified to drop certain provisions that liberal activist groups had opposed.
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who died in the country’s service Nearly 100 years …” as Veterans Day, later, we know Nov. 11 oism and sacrificebut the pride in the herserved the nation of those who have remains the same. Americans have been encourage reflect on that d to heroism and sacrifice through the years, and the people in the Sumter area will have the opportunit to do so as Veterans Day is celebratedy the Gamecock in City.
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During Sumter County Council’s meeting on Tuesday, trator Gary Mixon County Adminissaid the Federal Emergency Manageme nt Agency Disaster Relief Center will be moving another, smaller location sometime to soon because of a reduced number of visitors. He said He said sa aid d about ab abo a bout 30 bout bo 0 people peo p eople are a visiting th center each 3 the i day. Mixon said the county has information regarding the sent off emergency money it spent for flood rescue covery. He said and rethe $114,000 is overtimemajority of the for county employees. He said the county has also extended its memorand um of understand with South Carolina ing Department Transportation of move the debris for debris pickup to refrom the county’s landfill. He said some residents have dropping off been debris at the landfill on their own, and more debris has accumulatthan 2,000 tons of ed. Mixon said the debris would sume about coneight months to a landfill space if the memorandyear of not been extended. um had He said contractor s have already started removing county can receivethe debris, and the age of reimburse a higher percentment from FEMA the debris is if removed in a short amount of time. While considerin g final reading amendments of to the county’s ordinances regarding code of yard maintenance, council discussed working City of Sumter officials to enforce with yard maintenan city county council ce regulations for constituents within city limits. living
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