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Just How Cozy Is Hillary Clinton With Wall Street? (Original Post) kennetha Feb 2016 OP
Right.....sure....... daleanime Feb 2016 #1
This is an apologist piece for her bankruptcy bill flip flop Kelvin Mace Feb 2016 #2
Something in the air on Planet Bozone? hobbit709 Feb 2016 #3
In One Paragraph, Why Liberal Dems Are Skeptical of Hillary (Hill's banker speeches) RiverLover Feb 2016 #4
 

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)
2. This is an apologist piece for her bankruptcy bill flip flop
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 11:14 AM
Feb 2016

In essence, she was against the bill because it didn't prioritize alimony and child support. Then it did, so she supported it.

Trouble is, the bankruptcy law didn't need reforming. Banks pushed for the bill so they could choke more money out of the poor and middle class.

RiverLover

(7,830 posts)
4. In One Paragraph, Why Liberal Dems Are Skeptical of Hillary (Hill's banker speeches)
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 11:20 AM
Feb 2016
But Clinton offered a message that the collected plutocrats found reassuring, according to accounts offered by several attendees, declaring that the banker-bashing so popular within both political parties was unproductive and indeed foolish. Striking a soothing note on the global financial crisis, she told the audience, in effect: We all got into this mess together, and we’re all going to have to work together to get out of it. What the bankers heard her to say was just what they would hope for from a prospective presidential candidate: Beating up the finance industry isn’t going to improve the economy—it needs to stop. And indeed Goldman’s Jim O’Neill, the laconic Brit who heads the bank’s asset management division, introduced Clinton by saying how courageous she was for speaking at the bank. (Brave, perhaps, but also well-compensated: Clinton’s minimum fee for paid remarks is $200,000).


http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/why-liberal-democrats-are-skeptical-of-hillary-clinton-in-one-paragraph/282304/



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