It used to be enough to kiss babies...
...now you have to offer them each $5K in order to be elected:
"I like the idea of giving every baby born in America a $5,000 account that will grow over time, so that when that young person turns 18 if they have finished high school they will be able to access it to go to college or maybe they will be able to make that downpayment on their first home," she said.
OK, Hillary, you go first. You can afford to gift a few more children than I can. Oh wait...you want to take the money from the children in order to give it to them. I see...
And from her adoring audience, our local embarrassment:
"I think it's a wonderful idea," said Rep. Stephanie Stubbs Jones, an Ohio Democrat who attended the event and has already endorsed Clinton. "Every child born in the United States today owes $27,000 on the national debt, why not let them come get $5,000 to grow until their 18?"
Uh, because then they'd owe $32K on the national debt? Really I don't know who is a bigger idiot, Tubbs Jones or Devlin Barrett, who couldn't get her name right or find the contraction for they are.
UPDATE: Taranto presents the same answer to the Tubbs-Jones question as I did, minus the insults descriptors constantly and casually used on George W. Bush. Boortz has a good description of the likely devolution of the Hillary 5K.
UPDATE 2: Apparently the American people don't like this idea much more than I do.
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