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angrychair

(8,593 posts)
Tue Jan 26, 2016, 01:29 PM Jan 2016

Criticism and conspiracy

I'll grant you that there is some back and forth from the Clinton and Sanders camps on both criticism and conspiracies but few are as legitimate as the speaking fees collected by HRC and WJC since 2001.

Since 2001 they have collected $125 million dollars in speaking fees.

in a single speech, at Greentree Investments, HRC made $275,000 for a 45 minute event

That puts her in very elite air, both in total wealth and speaking fees.

She is the very thing that most Democrats hold up as an example of someone using leaving office and then milking the system. She is using her celebrity, her former government positions, to line her pockets with an absurd amount of money.

So much so that even Clinton friend an ally, Ed Rendell, stated:
"In retrospect, Mr. Rendell conceded, Mrs. Clinton would have been better off giving fewer such speeches.
“Although they needed money, I think that Bill was raking in enough that Hillary didn’t have to do it,” Mr. Rendell said. “To people who earn $200,000 in seven years, it looks ridiculous.”

She has given several closed door, no transcript, no press speeches to organizations that were at the center of the financial meltdown. At more $200,000 a pop.

My point is, be honest with yourself, seriously.
As a Democrat, you would vote for someone that has clearly used their power and influence to create immense wealth for themselves, to be not in the top 1% but the top .001%? (yes, they gave to charity, 99% of their charitable giving was to their own foundation-still enriching themselves through influence of their foundation)

How could a multimillionaire understand the struggle of an independent small farmer in Iowa or a struggling single parent in South Carolina? Making more in one, 45 minute speech, than they will see in 10 years combined?


If you have not already, read the links I provided. It is a serious question on integrity. There are no good answers as to how it is good for regular Americans or our Party.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/us/politics/in-race-defined-by-income-gap-hillary-clintons-wall-street-ties-incite-rivals.html?_r=0&referer=https://www.google.com/

http://qz.com/441327/yes-hillary-clintons-speaking-fees-are-high-but-only-compared-with-other-women/

http://www.businessinsider.com/here-are-all-the-six-figure-speaking-fees-that-hillary-clinton-received-after-leaving-the-state-dept-2015-5





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