Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a comment Friday that it's not businesses that create jobs.

In a campaign for the Massachusetts Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Martha Coakley, Clinton's comments about trickle-down economics raised eyebrows.

"Don't let anybody tell you that it's corporations and businesses that create jobs," Clinton said in Boston according to CNBC. "You know that old theory, trickle-down economics. That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly. ... One of the things my husband says when people say, 'What did you bring to Washington?' He says, 'I brought arithmetic.'"

The likely 2016 presidential candidate used a remark that sounds similar to something President Barack Obama said during his 2012 re-election camapign.

"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen," he said.

Obama's GOP opponent, Mitt Romney, used that against him in later debates; the Republican still lost.

People predict that Clinton's statement will too come back to haunt her. If it does, however, it appears she'll still have a shot at winning considering what happened with Obama.

Some Liberal groups have defended the trickle-down economics theory comment Clinton made.

The Group Media Matters wrote, "The full transcript of her remarks shows she was making the established observation that minimum wage increases can boost a sluggish economy by generating demand and that tax breaks for the rich don't necessarily move companies to create jobs."

Since it is more than likely that Hillary will run for president, everything she says in public from now on will be closely watched. The debate on trickle-down economics is nothing new for conservatives and liberals.

Last June, despite her multimillion-dollar book deals in the early 2000's, Clinton wrote in her book "Hard Choices" that she and her husband came out of the White House in 2001, "dead broke." The comment was rated "mostly false" on PolitiFact.com.

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