You can’t spell corruption without several letters from the last name “Clinton”. With Bernie Sanders putting Hillary under severe scrutiny for her ties to Wall Street, more figures are surfacing that show just how deep those ties run. Since 2001, Hillary and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, combined earned more than $153 million in paid speeches. Together, they gave 729 speeches from February 2001 to last May, when Hillary launched her presidential campaign.
According to figures released by a CNN analysis, Hillary collected at least $7.7 million for nearly forty speeches to big banks like Goldman Sachs and UBS. This would mean that a decent chunk of Hillary Clinton’s campaign is funded by Wall Street. Hillary justified it by basically saying that it’s all part of the game, claiming that these “insinuations” aren’t worthy of Bernie Sanders.
That being said, is it really an insinuation if it’s true? As always, Hillary’s defense is buried in transcripts and legal documents that will never see the light of day.
Read more about this on the next page.
al-qaeda (obama ) and clinton coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This autumn I hear the drumming,
Four dead in benghazi
Gotta get down to it al-qaeda is cutting us down
Should have been gone long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?
Gotta get down to it
al-qaeda is cutting us down
Should have been gone long ago.
What if you knew her
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run when you know?
al-qaeda and clinton coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This autumn I hear the drumming,
Four dead in benghazi…(.C,S,N & Y….OHIO )..
I wouldn’t watch them breathe
NOT WORTH A DIME.
well bill said he has to pay the bills ..
for that kind of money, must have been some of the best speeches ever – could we get copies please???
“Know your enemy.” -Sun Tsu
“We face the prospect of having two families govern the country for 16 years. The system is rigged. Our democracy is a consumer fraud. The government has given up any pretence of serving the interests of citizens. The corporations rule. And for all Clinton’s charm and talent for self-promotion, he is largely to blame.
Half a century ago, corporations paid 45 percent to 50 percent of the income tax. Today they pay 6 or 7 percent. This is why our infrastructure is crumbling, there is no universal health care, our public education is in crisis, regulatory agencies are impotent and our poor and working class are desperate.
The bottom line is that the Democrats, including John Edwards, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, will never govern on our behalf. They are hostage to those who put them in power. And it is not us, we will continue to be fleeced by corporate pawns such as the Clintons and the Bushes. It is no longer possible to argue between the lesser of two evils. The corporate state, which is carrying out a coup d’etat in slow motion and has already shredded most of our constitutional rights, is an unmitigated evil. We do not need charity. We need justice. And all of Bill Clinton’s heart-warming stories about giving are not going to save us from the corporations who sucked out his soul and seek to imprison the rest of us.”
http://m.truthdig.com/report/item/20070917_giving_and_taking
“The misery sweeping across the American landscape may have begun with Ronald Reagan, but it was accelerated and codified by Bill Clinton. He sold out the poor and the working class. And Clinton did it deliberately to feed the pathological hunger he and his wife have for political power. It was the Clintons who led the Democratic Party to the corporate watering trough. The Clintons argued that the party had to ditch labor unions, no longer a source of votes or power, as a political ally. Workers would vote Democratic anyway. They had no choice. It was better, the Clintons argued, to take corporate money and use government to service the needs of the corporations. By the 1990s, the Democratic Party, under Clinton’s leadership, had virtual fund-raising parity with the Republicans. In political terms, it was a success. In moral terms, it was a betrayal.
The North American Free Trade Agreement was sold to the country by the Clinton White House as an opportunity to raise the incomes and prosperity of the citizens of the United States, Canada and Mexico. Goods would be cheaper. Workers would be wealthier. Everyone would be happier. I am not sure how these contradictory things were supposed to happen, but in a sound-bite society, reality no longer matters. NAFTA would also, we were told, staunch Mexican immigration into the United States.
“There will be less illegal immigration because more Mexicans will be able to support their children by staying home,” President Clinton said in the spring of 1993 as he was lobbying for the bill.
But NAFTA, which took effect in 1994, had the curious effect of reversing every one of Clinton’s rosy predictions. Once the Mexican government lifted price supports on corn and beans for Mexican farmers, they had to compete against the huge agribusinesses in the United States. The Mexican farmers were swiftly bankrupted. At least 2 million Mexican farmers were driven off their land from 1993 through 2002. And guess where many of them went? This desperate flight of Mexicans into the United States is being exacerbated by large-scale factory closures along the border as manufacturers leave Mexico for the cut-rate embrace of China’s totalitarian capitalism.”
http://m.truthdig.com/report/item/20070917_giving_and_taking
“Clinton’s welfare reform bill, which was signed on Aug. 22, 1996, obliterated the nation’s social safety net. It threw 6 million people, many of them single parents, off of the welfare rolls within three years. It dumped them onto the streets without child care, rent subsidies and continued Medicaid coverage. Families were plunged into crisis, struggling to survive on multiple jobs that paid $6 or $7 an hour, or less than $15,000 a year. But these were the lucky ones. In some states, half of those dropped from the welfare rolls could not find work. Clinton slashed Medicare by $115 billion over a five-year period and cut $25 billion in Medicaid funding. The booming and overcrowded prison system handled the influx of the poor, as well as our abandoned mentally ill.
The growing desperation provided a pool of broken people willing to work for low wages and without unions or benefits. And while Clinton was busy selling out the poor, he lowered the capital gains tax from 28 percent to 20 percent, a reduction that permitted the wealthiest 1 percent of the population to derive 80 percent of the tax savings. Clinton, like George W. Bush, also provided lavish government funding for his corporate backers, including in 1998 a $200-billion highway and transportation package for the big construction companies and a $17-billion increase in the military budget. This was the largest increase in military spending since the end of the Cold War. Corporations, flush with government aid, saw their taxes dwindle. Amway, for example, had its taxes cut during the Clinton years by an estimated $280 million. The Clinton and Bush administrations, through tax breaks and corporate bailouts, have squandered billions of our tax dollars on corporate welfare.
The appreciative oligarchs and corporate class have made Bill rich. He is fond of boasting in public about how wealthy he has become. Hillary raised $26 million in the first quarter of the year, almost three times as much as any politician previously raised at that point in a presidential election.”
http://m.truthdig.com/report/item/20070917_giving_and_taking
GO TO JAIL$#%&!@*!!!