That's only part of the quote though, that's the issue. The entire thing is...
Look, we have serious economic problems in many parts of our country. And Roland is absolutely right. Instead of dividing people the way Donald Trump does, let's reunite around policies that will bring jobs and opportunities to all these underserved poor communities.
So for example, I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country. Because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right?
And we're going to make it clear that we don't want to forget those people. Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories.
Now we've got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don't want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on.
So whether it's coal country or Indian country or poor urban areas, there is a lot of poverty in America. We have gone backwards. We were moving in the right direction. In the '90s, more people were lifted out of poverty than any time in recent history.
Because of the terrible economic policies of the Bush administration, President Obama was left with the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, and people fell back into poverty because they lost jobs, they lost homes, they lost opportunities, and hope.
So I am passionate about this, which is why I have put forward specific plans about how we incentivize more jobs, more investment in poor communities, and put people to work.
It's quite clear that the 'we' in context is society as a whole as it moves towards cleaner energy. And she's right. As we move to renewables, we are going to put a lot of coal miners out of work and destroy a lot of companies. The major Government owned Coal company here in NZ,
Solid Energy went belly up last year, and that had nothing to do with Clinton or the Democrats, it had to do with International prices as the demand for coal plummets. US mining companies are under the same pressures.
At worst you can say she wasn't clear enough in the answer, but the Republicans took that one sentence out of the entire answer and wrote it up as if she personally planned to destroy the coal industry. That was totally untrue.
