I admit that I did not read far into this "exposé". The very first
line, "...Clinton enjoying warm relations with Wall Street and
admitting she is 'far removed' from ordinary citizens..."
caused me to gag.
For God's sake, can't we get past having to tell ourselves that the
Clinton's' are not friends of the Working Class? Of course Hillary
Clinton feels comfortable and at ease with her billionaire friends.
They're her Friends!!! She's not speaking to the PTA in Detroit, at a
$25 per couple fund raiser. But what really cranks my little engine
is this never ending crap from the slimy lips of those politicians who
play "hugsy hugsy" with Wall Street, and declare that they are not
bought by the huge contributions from the Elite. These billionaires,
we are led to believe, just love their country so much that they give
away millions of dollars just to prove they are Patriots. These are
the same filthy rich folk who scream if you suggest a living wage for
their employees. And don't talk about "free" education for our
children. And they hate Social Security and Medicare because it makes
hard working folks far too dependent upon government "handouts".
Really? Are we talking about the same kindly old grandpa sitting
behind his huge posh desk reaching out to hand bags of money to those
folks who were just crippled in an industrial accident?
So I just can't keep on reading pointless verbiage. Let's cut to the
chase and demand that these billionaires start calling us into their
fancy dinners and paying us just a few thousand dollars each to hear
what we think.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/9/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
> From The Guardian
> WikiLeaks releases what appear to be Clinton's paid Wall Street speeches
> The WikiLeaks emails appear to show Clinton enjoying warm relations with
> Wall Street and admitting she is 'far removed' from ordinary citizens
>
>
> Excerpts from the speeches, long kept under wraps, came to light when
> WikiLeaks published what it claimed were hacked campaign emails.
> Photograph:
> Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images
> David Smith in Washington
> Friday 7 October 2016 20.43 EDT Last modified on Saturday 8 October 2016
> 16.58 EDT
>
> Speeches given by Hillary Clinton to major Wall Street banks including
> Goldman Sachs, long kept under wraps, have apparently been released by
> WikiLeaks.
> The lucrative speeches were a recurring theme in the Democratic primary
> campaign; accused of being the pro-Wall Street establishment candidate,
> Clinton faced calls from rival Bernie Sanders to make them public.
> The speech excerpts came to light on Friday when WikiLeaks published
> thousands of what it claimed were hacked emails from her campaign chairman,
> John Podesta. The campaign refused to confirm or deny the authenticity of
> the documents.
> On Friday the US government formally named the Russian government as
> responsible for recent hacks intended to interfere with the US presidential
> election.
>
> US officially accuses Russia of hacking DNC and interfering with election
> Administration says 'only Russia's senior-most officials' could have signed
> off on cyber-attacks and urges states to seek federal security aid for
> voting systems
> Read more
>
> Glen Caplin, Clinton campaign national spokesman, said: "We are not going
> to
> confirm the authenticity of stolen documents released by Julian Assange [of
> WikiLeaks] who has made no secret of his desire to damage Hillary Clinton.
> Guccifer 2.0 has already proven the warnings of top national security
> officials that documents can be faked as part of a sophisticated Russian
> misinformation campaign."
> If genuine, the WikiLeaks emails appear to show Clinton enjoying warm
> relations with Wall Street and admitting she is "far removed" from ordinary
> citizens.
> In a speech to the Goldman Sachs Builders And Innovators Summit in October
> 2013, Clinton apparently complained of "a bias" against successful people
> in
> Washington that stops them retaining their wealth.
> "Well, you know what Bob Rubin said about that," she is quoted as saying.
> "He said, you know, when he came to Washington, he had a fortune. And when
> he left Washington, he had a small …"
> A man called Mr Blanfein interjected: "That's how you have a small fortune,
> is you go to Washington."
> Clinton resumed: "You go to Washington. Right. But, you know, part of the
> problem with the political situation, too, is that there is such a bias
> against people who have led successful and/or complicated lives. You know,
> the divestment of assets, the stripping of all kinds of positions, the sale
> of stocks. It just becomes very onerous and unnecessary."
> At the same event, Clinton appears to have discussed the 2008 financial
> crisis. "I think that there's a lot that could have been avoided in terms
> of
> both misunderstanding and really politicizing what happened with greater
> transparency, with greater openness on all sides, you know, what happened,
> how did it happen, how do we prevent it from happening?"
> The former senator and secretary of state added: "The people that know the
> industry better than anybody are the people who work in the industry" – a
> comment that might have been seized on by Sanders, who was demanding that
> Wall Street not be given a free hand to self-regulate.
> After leaving office as secretary of state in 2013, Clinton embarked on a
> career speaking to banks, securities firms and other financial
> institutions.
> Tax returns show that her minimum fee was $225,000 per speech.
> In remarks to Banco Itaú, she allegedly spoke in favor of trade in a tone
> very different from her current opposition to Barack Obama's Trans-Pacific
> Partnership. "My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and
> open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and
> sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every
> person in the hemisphere.
>
> Trump supporters split on his opposition to TPP, survey shows
> More Trump and Clinton supporters back Trans-Pacific Partnership than not,
> suggesting nuanced positions between Democrats and Republicans, survey said
>
> Read more
>
> "Secondly, I think we have to have a concerted plan to increase trade
> already under the current circumstances, you know, that Inter-American
> Development Bank figure is pretty surprising. There is so much more we can
> do, there is a lot of low-hanging fruit but businesses on both sides have
> to
> make it a priority and it's not for governments to do but governments can
> either make it easy or make it hard and we have to resist, protectionism,
> other kinds of barriers to market access and to trade"
> The excerpts were revealed in a January 2016 email from Tony Carrk,
> research
> director of the Clinton campaign, to Podesta and other senior campaign
> officials, highlighting politically sensitive sections.
> In an address to Goldman Sachs/BlackRock in April 2014, Clinton allegedly
> said: "I am not taking a position on any policy, but I do think there is a
> growing sense of anxiety and even anger in the country over the feeling
> that
> the game is rigged. And I never had that feeling when I was growing up.
> Never. I mean, were there really rich people, of course there were. My
> father loved to complain about big business and big government, but we had
> a
> solid middle-class upbringing.
> "We had good public schools. We had accessible healthcare. We had our
> little, you know, one-family house that, you know, he saved up his money,
> didn't believe in mortgages. So I lived that. And now, obviously, I'm kind
> of far removed because the life I've lived and the economic, you know,
> fortunes that my husband and I now enjoy, but I haven't forgotten it."
>
>
>
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> Clinton had previously faced calls from rival Bernie Sanders to make the
> speeches public. Photograph: Melanie Maxwell/AP
> In a speech to the National Multi-Housing Council in April 2013, she
> admitted a need for a private and public position on policy. "Politics is
> like sausage being made," she said. "It is unsavory, and it always has been
> that way, but we usually end up where we need to be. But if everybody's
> watching, you know, all of the back room discussions and the deals, you
> know, then people get a little nervous, to say the least. So, you need both
> a public and a private position."
> And in a speech for General Electric's global leadership meeting in Boca
> Raton, Florida, in January 2014, Clinton acknowledged that anyone who runs
> for president must raise vast sums of money. "I would like it not to be so
> expensive," she said. "I have no idea how you do that.
> "I mean, in my campaign – I lose track, but I think I raised $250m or some
> such enormous amount, and in the last campaign President Obama raised
> 1.1bn,
> and that was before the Super Pacs and all of this other money just rushing
> in, and it's so ridiculous that we have this kind of free-for-all with all
> of this financial interest at stake, but, you know, the supreme court said
> that's basically what we're in for.
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