At a political event in New Hampshire, someone asked Hillary Clinton to state with specificity what she would do as president to bring down the national debt. Instead of answering, Clinton offered a self-serving history lesson, praising her husband’s record (about which more below) and criticizing George W. Bush for starting two wars (both of which she voted for) without paying for them ( The Washington Post’s fact checker has debunked Clinton’s suggestion that the Democrats had a plan that would have paid for these wars and prevented the debt from soaring).

Clinton never got around to saying how she would tackle the debt. Instead, she referred the questioner to her campaign website. (The video is below).

The Clinton campaign website features an issues section. It lists 24 of them. The debt is not included.

Read the article “Hillary Clinton’s National Debt Evasion” on powerlineblog.com.