Posted on 03/21/2015 9:54:13 AM PDT by entropy12
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told POLITICO on Friday that foreign contributions to the Clinton Foundation are “thinly veiled bribes,” and said Hillary Clinton should return any donations from Saudi Arabia or other countries that abuse the rights of women.
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The foundation is just the tip of the laundry.
Rand Paul is becoming more diplomatic in what he says. There is nothing thinly veiled about contributions from Saudi Arabia and other terrorist supporters. I read somewhere that there are donations from a Ukraine pol who would benefit from regime change.
What it is: arrogantly open transfers of wealth from those who fully intend to benefit from a hillary presidency, just as they did from hillary being SoS. She belongs in jail, not the WH.
Hillary will look acceptable in orange suit.
I was at the Lincoln dinner last night in Conway. Rand Paul’s speech was very good - hammered Hillary for Benghazi, foreign donations, war on women... Funny that Politico called us “Republican activists”! My husband and I are independents and we were seated at a table with two Canadians who drove down from Montreal specifically to here Paul speak. What happens here affects Canada big time.
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Also applies the large contributions to most members of Congress, the RNC and many PACS. The contributions explain why Boner and McConnell and others ignore the voters and allow Obama to have his way on amnesty and other major issues.
Impossible!
Hillary is a socialist! All of her life she has lived in one room apartments with an orange crate for a chair and no hot water.
She’s only living rich because the poor people want her to. It makes the poor feel good to see Hillary living rich. She’s just doing it for them.
Money is certainly mother’s milk in politics.
But, what is the alternative? Tax payer funded elections with prohibitions on direct donations to individual politicians or political parties? That will not be good for conservatives.
I think a much better solution is term limits. That will require amending constitution via state legislatures. The DC politicians will never vote themselves out of power.
Most of these family foundations are simple ways for families to avoid taxes. The Clintons, like many wealthy families, are just playing the game.
I do not begrudge politicians from avoiding taxes legally. But what is deplorable is politicians allowed to accept donations (thinly veiled bribes) while actively running for offices.
There is no perfect solution, but allowing almost unlimited contributions, whatever the reasoning, just legalizes bribery. We might be near the day when one or more of our multi-billionaires puts up a billion to fully finance his favored candidate.
I think a system that allows personal and corporate donations of a reasonable amount (not enough for any donor to be too important to a candidate), and then government matching funds might work.
Term limits eliminates the need to bribe really big amounts to any one because they won’t last long enough in power to be useful to Billionaires.
Term limits does not eliminate the need for money to finance a campaign, whether a candidate runs one or a dozen campaigns. Even with term limits, you’d still have more influential members, committee chairmen and majority and minority leaders.
I don’t see term limits as the cure all that some do. You’re not going to limit members to only one term, so the need to campaign and be reelected will still be there.
And sometimes the member not running for reelection can be the most ‘influenced’ of all because they are often making moves and ingratiating themselves to some future employer who’ll pay much more than they earned in Congress.
Trent Lott said it when he left the senate two years into a new term: “Time to make some real money”.
Not bribes, “speech”.
Nobody said Term Limits will cure everything.
But it will go a very long way towards getting rid of lifelong entrenched politicians, many of whom are slaves to their financiers for decades.
In many cases the politician is known to have sponsored and pushed for legislation favorable to their financier master.
This problem is accentuated, with entrenched politicians with lifelong careers in politics.
Well, yeah, that’s what the whole system has been set up to do. Oligarchy, plain and simple.
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