Why Hillary Clinton, the Senator from Wall Street, won't release the transcripts of her speeches

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Election 2016
Hillary's Inability to Grapple With Inequality Is Making Her Vulnerable to Bernie in New York
Clinton is tone deaf on education debt and young voters are wary.
By Les Leopold / AlterNet
April 7, 2016
Les Leopold is the director of the Labor Institute in New York. His latest book is Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice (Chelsea Green, 2015).

As runaway inequality took off in the 1980s, Hillary's political ambitions took off as well, first for Bill in Arkansas, then for Bill as president, and then, at long last, for herself. Her peer group always included these Ivy League elites. Many of her former classmates moved up into elite law firms and into the highest financial circles. Her peers were making millions, tens of millions and some even billions of dollars.

These wealthy elites became the financial glue of Bill's campaigns. That's why we'll never see the transcripts of her $225,000 Wall Street speeches. Those talks would show the side Hillary has trained herself to hide from the public. These elites are her friends, her supporters, her funders. Turning on them would be like turning on herself and all she's become and wants to become.

Those speeches would show the real Hillary who became the senator from Wall Street, who made $9.1 million from speaking fees in 2013, and who along with her husband raked in over $130 million over the last decade.

Little wonder she rejects all proposals that would redistribute financial wealth to the rest of society. No financial speculation tax to fund free higher education. No break-up of the big banks. No new Glass-Steagall.

Instead, she makes a passionate plea for a world built on the kind of meritocracy that shot her to top. "Break all barriers" so that each of us can live up to "our god-given talents." She wants rich and poor alike to join the race to riches. But she has trouble admitting the obvious; we never can start equally in a world run wild with runaway inequality.

She is incapable of understanding that wealth must be redistributed from her Wall Street friends, from her daughter, from her son-in-law, from Bill and from herself to the rest of America, if we are to reverse runaway inequality. That's the barrier we must break.

Hillary Clinton was never a financially struggling college graduate, and she'll never understand what struggling students are going through now.

Read the full article at: http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/hillarys-inability-grapple-inequality-making-her-vulnerable-bernie-new-york

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1. Waiting for Sanders to release his conversations with lobbyists, especially from

Lockheed Martin and the NRA, would like to see if they have influence on his votes, we know the votes was influenced by the NRA.

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3. When did Bernie deliver speeches to their meetings and how much was he paid?

Just some hard facts and credible links.

Can you do that?

Or are you part of the rookie " throw more bull shit brigade" that hopes some of this crap will stick?

Oh wait ..... you don't want the transcript of his alleged speeches Bernie made!

You want the transcripts of conversations he's allegedly had with some unnamed people!!!!!

Do you have transcripts of all the discussions you've had with people this past week?

Now you're either very desperate or just plane goofy with your demands!

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4. Did I say anything about his speeches? I said conversations, he has voted with the NRA more

Then once, I would like to hear those conversations to see if he was influenced by the lobbyists.

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5. Would you also like to hear Hillary's private conversations with her Wall Street benefactors?

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7. What bills has she voted which was influenced by Well Street benefactors?

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2. Jane's going to have a lot of time on her hands with that trip to Italy.

Think she'll be able to get those taxes done?

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6. So far the folks who claim to be Hillary supporters haven't commented on the article.

They never do.

They can't.

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8. Hillary has been working on inequality issues many years ago, trying to get migrant

Children into schools in order to improve their opportunities, it has not started in the past few years. She went to South Texas years ago to register voters.

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9. the "article" is just an opionion piece by a biased bernie supporter nt

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10. And what opinions expressed do you disagree with and why?

Of course it's an opinion piece written by someone who doesn't like big business and Wall Street running the government.

Does this part really bother you?

"She is incapable of understanding that wealth must be redistributed from her Wall Street friends, from her daughter, from her son-in-law, from Bill and from herself to the rest of America, if we are to reverse runaway inequality."

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11. Still no answer.