The Daily Caller reports:

Hillary Clinton wants you to know she voted to raise the minimum wage, and she thinks that’s a good thing. She said that created “millions of jobs” in a speech she gave to a Democratic rally in Massachusetts Friday.

She then went on to, curiously, say, “Don’t let anybody tell you it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs. You know, that old theory ‘trickle-down economics.’ That has been tried, that has failed, it has failed rather spectacularly.”

Then Senator Hillary Clinton voted in favor of a minimum wage hike in 2007, under President George W. Bush. In 2008, the housing market collapsed and the nation went into recession.

Clinton didn’t elaborate on when those jobs created by her vote to raise the minimum wage occurred.

Message from Hillary to the Burke family, owners of Trek Bicycle: You didn’t build that.

Clinton is not the only Democrat who believes this (assuming any statement she makes is sincere). I had to endure a phone conversation with a Democratic Assembly candidate who actually said that small business doesn’t matter. This candidate is a state employee, so, small business owners, consider that when you’re voting Nov. 4.

So if corporations and businesses don’t create jobs, who does?

The Weekly Standard observes:

The aggressive tone and inelegant phrasing are meant, one supposes, to convey authenticity, which has never been Mrs. Clinton’s strength as a campaigner.  No news there.

But what of the content – such as it is – of the remark? Mrs. Clinton could be forgiven for thinking that corporations and businesses exist solely to provide big paydays for politically connected guest speakers.  But then, who does create jobs in the Clinton universe?  If, that is, any jobs are being created.

Well, maybe she should look to Texas.  Where, as this AEI report shows:

1.32 million new jobs [have been] added since the start of the Great Recession, compared to a net deficit of almost one million jobs for the other 49 states combined … The country, the president, and all of us individually owe a huge debt of gratitude to the state of Texas and to the oil and gas industry for helping support the US economy during and after the Great Recession. Without the energy-driven economic stimulus from the fracking revolution, and without the gusher of jobs in the state of Texas, there’s no question that the Great Recession would have been much worse and lasted much longer, and the jobs picture today would be much bleaker.

But don’t let anyone tell you so.