Hillary Reassures Wall St that Nothing Will Change
After months of trying to
distance herself from Bill,
Hillary is now ready to embrace
him as a reassurance to her
biggest donors... Wall St!
Hillary boosters have repeatedly
cried foul whenever She was
rightfully included in the criticism
of Clinton's miserable neo-liberal
economic policies.
NOW Hillary in a blatant nepotistic,
crony capitalist maneuver has stated
she intends to put her husband
in charge of the nations wealth spigot.
Lest ye forget the olden days, Bill was
working with Newt Gingrich to privatize
Social Security!
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/clinton-wanted-social-security-privatized
What does this mean for Hillary's campaign?
Some say this is a move of desperation.
Others belive she is using Bill as a shiny object
to distract from her lack of a coherent economic plan.
Apparently platitudes aren't a policy?
Despite all the tap dancing and attempts
to wriggle out of admitting She is in
the pocket of Wall St, She and Bill
are at the ready to resume right where
they left off... selling the nation off
to the highest bidder!
Memo to Hillary: Do Not Put Bill in Charge of the Economy
http://time.com/4337818/hillary-clinton-bill-economy/
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She will *strengthen* it 
Meaning what exactly???
Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy,
(from Greek: ??έ???? - kleptēs, "thief"
and ??ά??? - kratos, "power, rule",
hence "rule by thieves"
is a term applied to a government
seen as having a particularly severe
and systemic problem with officials
or a ruling class (collectively, kleptocrats)
taking advantage of corruption to extend
their personal wealth and political power.
Typically this system involves the
embezzlement of state funds at the expense
of the wider population, sometimes without
even the pretense of honest service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy
they have no shame 
Sec. Clinton has been fine with it going to the pockets of the few.
These are the wealthiest times in human history. The steward of trickle down David Stockman reports that 7/8th of all wealth ever has been created in the last 32 years. Yet, a Democratic administration makes the case that the solution for our problems is...Austerity? That is sick. It also shows the power of money upon democracy.
For me, the best example is the team at UBS Wealth Management. After his exit from the US Senate, Phil Gramm found a job at Swiss bank UBS as vice chairman. He later brought on former President Bill Clinton. What a coincidence, they are the two key figures in repealing Glass-Steagal. Since the New Deal it was the financial regulation that protected the US taxpayer from the Wall Street casino. Oh well, what's a $16 trillion bailout among friends?
About UBS Wealth Management
It's Buy Partisan
It's a Buy-Partisan Who's Who:
President William J. Clinton
President George W. Bush Heh heh heh.
Robert J. McCann
James Carville
John V. Miller
Paula D. Polito
Anthony Roth
Mike Ryan
John Savercool
SOURCE: http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/revitalizingamerica/SenatorPhilGramm.html
One of my attorney chums doesn't like to see his name on any committees, event letterhead or political campaign literature. These folks, it seems to me, are past caring.
Some of why DUers and ALL voters should care about Phil Gramm.
Hillary Helps a Bank—and Then It Funnels Millions to the Clintons
The Wall Street Journal’s eyebrow-raising story of how the presidential candidate and her husband accepted cash from UBS without any regard for the appearance of impropriety that it created.
by CONOR FRIEDERSDORF, The Atlantic, JUL 31, 2015
The Swiss bank UBS is one of the biggest, most powerful financial institutions in the world. As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton intervened to help it out with the IRS. And after that, the Swiss bank paid Bill Clinton $1.5 million for speaking gigs. The Wall Street Journal reported all that and more Thursday in an article that highlights huge conflicts of interest that the Clintons have created in the recent past.
The piece begins by detailing how Clinton helped the global bank.
“A few weeks after Hillary Clinton was sworn in as secretary of state in early 2009, she was summoned to Geneva by her Swiss counterpart to discuss an urgent matter. The Internal Revenue Service was suing UBS AG to get the identities of Americans with secret accounts,” the newspaper reports. “If the case proceeded, Switzerland’s largest bank would face an impossible choice: Violate Swiss secrecy laws by handing over the names, or refuse and face criminal charges in U.S. federal court. Within months, Mrs. Clinton announced a tentative legal settlement—an unusual intervention by the top U.S. diplomat. UBS ultimately turned over information on 4,450 accounts, a fraction of the 52,000 sought by the IRS.”
Then reporters James V. Grimaldi and Rebecca Ballhaus lay out how UBS helped the Clintons. “Total donations by UBS to the Clinton Foundation grew from less than $60,000 through 2008 to a cumulative total of about $600,000 by the end of 2014, according to the foundation and the bank,” they report. “The bank also joined the Clinton Foundation to launch entrepreneurship and inner-city loan programs, through which it lent $32 million. And it paid former president Bill Clinton $1.5 million to participate in a series of question-and-answer sessions with UBS Wealth Management Chief Executive Bob McCann, making UBS his biggest single corporate source of speech income disclosed since he left the White House.”
The article adds that “there is no evidence of any link between Mrs. Clinton’s involvement in the case and the bank’s donations to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, or its hiring of Mr. Clinton.” Maybe it’s all a mere coincidence, and when UBS agreed to pay Bill Clinton $1.5 million the relevant decision-maker wasn’t even aware of the vast sum his wife may have saved the bank or the power that she will potentially wield after the 2016 presidential election.
SNIP...
As McClatchy noted last month in a more broadly focused article that also mentions UBS, “Ten of the world’s biggest financial institutions––including UBS, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs––have hired Bill Clinton numerous times since 2004 to speak for fees totaling more than $6.4 million. Hillary Clinton also has accepted speaking fees from at least one bank. And along with an 11th bank, the French giant BNP Paribas, the financial goliaths also donated as much as $24.9 million to the Clinton Foundation––the family’s global charity set up to tackle causes from the AIDS epidemic in Africa to climate change.”
CONTINUED...
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/hillary-helps-a-bankand-then-it-pays-bill-15-million-in-speaking-fees/400067/
Like Bernie, I want to use the powers of government to redistribute wealth, as was done from FDR to Reagan to make life better for all Americans, not just the well off.
Socialized Risk. Privatized Reward.
Like Feudalism and Slavery Together! They get the advantages of owning every damn thing worth owning and then don't have to feed or clothe (and never educate -- and only take them to a doctor if it makes economic sense) those who do the work that creates the wealth.
I with the economists had a chart for it. Short of that, a picture:
their *speaking fees* will be
pay huge dividends
