NEW YORK. - Democratic senator Hillary Clinton accused President Bush yesterday of driving the United States to bankruptcy and impoverishing the middle-class at the time she presented a package to improve the economy.

Bush’s government is not taking care of the United States, he is taking the country into impoverishment, he does not understand the people’s problems, said the New York senator while speaking at the annual Democratic Leadership Council Convention.

This influential council is the "think tank" (analysis and training center) that took Hillary’s husband, William Clinton, to the American Presidency in 1992.

The senator presented the "Initiative for an American Dream", a package of economic proposals aimed at fortifying the middle-class and fight against poverty.

Clinton blamed the present administration of not doing anything to avoid the rise of gasoline prices and health and education costs, she was sorry that republicans "do not offer economic security to Americans".

Using a successful motto that excelled during her husband’s presidential campaign “the important thing is the economy, stupid" -, the senator, favored by many to be in the 2008 presidential race said "the important thing is to obtain the American dream, stupid".