2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhy Wall Street Gives Hillary Clinton Millions of Dollars
By Michael Sainato 02/09/16
Hillary Clintons responses to criticism over speaking fees and donations from Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs have failed to put an end to questions surrounding the large sums of money she received. I made speeches to lots of groups, she responded to Anderson Cooper during the CNN Democratic Townhall on February 3. I dont know. Thats what they offered, she shrugged.
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Ms. Clinton argues speaking fees and donations have never influenced any of her votes, but The Boston Globe reported that during her eight years in the Senate, she avoided taking stances on financial legislation, as bills ushered into legislation during her husbands administrationsuch as the repeal of Glass Steagall in 1999 and the Commodities Futures Modernization Actestablished a laissez-faire attitude towards the financial industry from the government.
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A few weeks into Ms. Clintons position as Secretary of State in 2009, she helped UBS settle a lawsuit with the IRS, saving them millions of dollars. Shortly after, her husband received $1.5 million in speaking fees from UBS, while donations from UBS to the Clinton Foundation increased exponentially.
Clinton advisors have also lobbied to repeal many reforms enacted by Dodd-Frank.
Ms. Clintons campaign staff includes many former lobbyists, like her chief pollster and strategist Joel Benenson, who ran a consulting firm retained to lobby on repealing parts of Dodd-Franklegislation meant to regulate the financial industry in the post-2008 economic recession, by the Financial Services Forum.
The brother of the Clinton Campaigns Chairman and lobbyist, Tony Podesta, told The Hill in a 2015 interview that he anticipated President Obamas ban on lobbyists would not be continued by a Clinton administration.
The enormous speaking fees and donations racked up by the Clintons from the financial services industry represent much more than the artful smear Ms. Clinton attempted to dismiss during the 5th Democratic Debate.
Ms. Clintons record of getting paid substantially by large financial firms suggests her allegiance is aligned with their interests, rather than the American public. Nothing in her record or rebuttals suggests otherwise.
http://observer.com/2016/02/why-wall-street-gives-hillary-clinton-millions-of-dollars/
Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)Thanks for the thread, RiverLover.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Same Buy Partisan duo who got Glass-Steagall off the books to give free reign to UBS and the rest of the banksters.
http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/revitalizingamerica/SenatorPhilGramm.html
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)I really wish I'd been paying attention back then.
I wish more people were today, instead of primarily seeing the filtered skewed news put out by the same companies involved in buying off our representatives.
Carolina
(6,960 posts)Slimy Gramm was drooling about overturning Glass-Steagall; and in 1999, Bill did the deed with his signature despite the fact that all but one of the Senate Democrats voted against it. He could have vetoed it.... but NO.
The canary-in-the-mine Dems warned that we, the people, would reap the whirlwind of that disastrous act 10 years later. Sure enough, what happened in 2008-2009!
True democratic values and policies are now kryptonite to the Clintons. HRC is the Wall Street cabal's puppet.
PS: love the play on words Buy Partisan
think
(11,641 posts)earthside
(6,960 posts)... the Republican candidates, too!
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)Then no one would even ask about those transcripts, they love that stuff! After all, they're republicans & the transcripts would clearly show she is too.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)to read this.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Big Sister and she is perfection in their eyes.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Others saw it as a blueprint for their version of paradise. And an instruction manual.
What us truth today is a lie tomorrow, only to be truth again next month.
CdnExtraNational
(105 posts)ram2008
(1,238 posts)And she like made a speech where she said woman's rights are humans rights or something, so she should be President.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Carolina
(6,960 posts)The last bolded statement needs to be a billboard on the busiest freeways around every city!