Hillary Clinton says she will put her husband and former president Bill Clinton in charge of economic revitalization efforts, if she wins the race for White House in November 8 election.
“My husband, who I’m going to put in charge of revitalizing the economy, cause you know he knows how to do it, and especially in places like coal country and inner cities and other parts of our country that have really been left out,” she said speaking at a rally in Kentucky.
However, on Monday she clarified, according to ABC channel, that Bill Clinton would not be a member of her cabinet.
Economy is a big concern with American voters and Hillary Clinton’s primary rival Bernie Sanders and Republican prospective competitor Donald Trump have been selling their respective ideas to weary public in the 2016 election season effectively.
The statement by the former secretary of state and leading Democratic candidate prompted mixed reactions.
The 1990s saw a massive growth of the Internet and jobs related to the information technology, and left the office in 2000 with economy in a much better shape.
A CNN report noted that “during Clinton’s eight years as president, the U.S. economy added more than 22 million jobs. That’s slightly more jobs than were added during the combined 22-year tenure of the four most recent Republican presidents.”
At the same time, the report says several critics hold Bill Clinton’s administration responsible for many of the problems the US economy faces today, particularly due to elimination of banking regulations.
Trump and Republican politicians also attribute the loss of American jobs to North American Free Trade Agreement.
Meanwhile, commenting on Hillary Clinton’s statement a Time magazine article noted Monday that Bill Clinton’s economic legacy is “not a net positive Hillary politically.”
However, defenders of Bill Clinton’s economic policies say many of the problems like job losses to least expensive manufacturing international market is one of the ramifications of the tidal wave of globalization which began gaining momentum in the 1990s.
