Nobody pays $250000 for 20 minutes of blabber.

[KentuckyWoman]

They are buying favors at some future date. Period.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Capitalists invest in products that they expect a healthy return on.

[cantbeserious]

2. Roger That

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[flor-de-jasmim]

3. Only 20 min.? Wow, that's some hourly rate!!

[Yuugal]

15. And yet she says 15 an hr is too much......

for us proles.

[leveymg]

4. Bribery or payoff, depending upon when it occurs.

We will look back at these times and ask how did so many care so little about so much corruption at the end of the American Republic.

[anotherproletariat]

5. You'd be surprised. These companies just want big names...even W gets 150K per speach

and that is AFTER his presidency, so that there is nothing more he can promise anyone. A-list celebrities also get in this ballpark for giving a speech.

[Fearless]

6. Nonsense he has the Republican machine's ear.

Kissenger, Rove, Cheney, Bush Sr., every advisor they'd had. Every person who supported them monetarily, and they are STILL around.

[jtuck004]

7. And he can get really good deals on oil paints from Karen at Hobby Lobby. n/t

[silvershadow]

9. Which is what he should have done instead of politics. The world would have been a better

place.

[mdbl]

11. ROFL!

Thanks for the laugh!

[Tab]

8. Have you watched any super bowl ads?

Same shit, different exchange rate.

[Old Crow]

10. Precisely.

Only the naive and the blindly partisan refuse to concede the obvious.

[Buns_of_Fire]

12. Rate: $250,000. With special guest appearance by Bubba: $215,000.

With special guest appearance by Bubba in a flannel shirt: $195,000. With spontaneous Macarena: $175,000.

10 Photo Opportunities included. Wardrobe Malfunctions available at extra cost.

[randome]

13. Lady Gaga and Jerry Seinfeld were also paid $200,000 for a speech.

Goldman Sachs hosts a lot of these speeches. There are plenty of threads that point that out.
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[Ichingcarpenter]

14. Please Help!