Posted on 01/25/2016 5:24:33 PM PST by Starman417
Did you know that Hillary Clinton was the one who shot Osama Bin Laden? Neither did I until the other day.
From 2013 to 2015 Hillary Clinton sucked in nearly $3 million dollars from Wall St banks. In just 12 speeches.
Clinton's most lucrative year was 2013, right after stepping down as secretary of state. That year, she made $2.3 million for three speeches to Goldman Sachs and individual speeches to Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Investments, Apollo Management Holdings, UBS, Bank of America, and Golden Tree Asset Managers.During the time Hillary served as Secretary of State, Bill and Hillary raked in "$17 million in talks to banks, insurance companies, hedge funds, real estate businesses, and other financial firms."The following year, she picked up $485,000 for a speech to Deutsche Bank and an address to Ameriprise. Last year, she made $150,000 from a lecture before the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
To put these numbers into perspective, compare them to lifetime earnings of the median American worker. In 2011, the Census Bureau estimated that, across all majors, a "bachelor's degree holder can expect to earn about $2.4 million over his or her work life." A Pew Research analysis published the same year estimated that a "typical high school graduate" can expect to make just $770,000 over the course of his or her lifetime.
Yes THEY made $17 million while SHE was Secretary of State. They file taxes jointly, they earn jointly. She was handing out the favors while Bill was collecting for them.
Asked if she would release the transcripts of her speeches to Goldman Sachs, Clinton laughed and turned away. There's good reason for that. In 2013 Clinton gave a speech to Goldman Sachs in which she is reported to have said "banker-bashing so popular within both political parties was unproductive and indeed foolish."Â
And now she's going to reform them? LOL we've heard this story before- in 2008, from Barack Obama. He also promised to prosecute those in Wall St who ripped this country apart in the financial crisis. He lied, and there is absolutely no reason to believe her now. She is owned by Wall St, despite her protestations.
A former Goldman Sachs banker knows this as well. He suggests Wall St  is pouring money into Hillary's and Bill's pockets as insurance:
 Banks lent trillions of dollars to home buyers on too loose of terms knowing that they could turn the resulting junk mortgages into AAA securities through the alchemy of CDOs and securitization and thus generate hundreds of billions of profit and leave the resulting mortgage mess to their investing clients.There are all sorts of excuses for Hillary hoovering up Wall St cash. First Clinton tries to draw you away from her owing Wall St. Hillary would have you believing that Wall St is paying her millions because, well, first because health groups and auto dealers were interested in a complicated world:But the financial crisis is behind us, right? Why would Wall Street shower Hillary Clinton with millions of dollars in speaking fees and tens of millions in campaign contributions?
I think it is an insurance policy. Wall Street wants a friend in the White House to protect the status quo, and if they can't get a Republican elected, Hillary is the next best thing. I think they need a friend in government because the industry could not survive an investigation into how they actually make their profits.
"Why do you think one of these big banks paid you over $200,000 for a speech?" Todd asked.Unless she was taking millions from Wall St because of 9-11 and like, she's a girl."Look, I gave speeches to a wide array of groups from health care groups to auto dealers and many, many more, and I think what they were interested in, because what we talked about was the world coming off of four years as secretary of state in a complicated world, people were interested in what I saw, what I thought," Clinton said. "You know, I think Americans who are doing business in every aspect of the economy want to know more about the world. I actually think it's a good conversation for people to be having."
"You don't think they expect anything in return?" Todd asked.
"Absolutely not," Clinton said.
Oh, wait a minute, senator. You know, not only do I have hundreds of thousands of donors, most of them small, and I'm very proud that for the first time a majority of my donors are women, 60%. [Cheers and applause.] So I— I represented New York, and I represented New York on 9/11 when we were attacked. Where were we attacked? We were attacked in downtown Manhattan where Wall Street is. I did spend a whole lot of time and effort helping them rebuild. That was good for New York. It was good for the economy, and it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country.But now we learn that Hillary Clinton is taking millions from Wall St because big bankers want to hear about her participation in the Bin Laden raid:
TODD: "As you know, your opponent Senator Sanders has been hitting you on Wall Street contributions and including paid speeches you did for Goldman Sachs among other banks. Let me ask you this — why do you think one of these big banks paid you over $200,000 for a speech."Make no mistake. Wall St loves Hillary:CLINTON: "Look, I gave speeches to a wide array of groups from health care groups to auto dealers and many, many more and I think what they were interested in — because what we talked about was the world coming off of four years as secretary of state in a complicated world, people were interested in what I saw, what I thought, they asked questions about matters that were on their minds. A lot of interest in the bin Laden raid, how such a tough decision was made and what I advised the president. You know, I think Americans who are doing business in every aspect of the economy want to know more about the world. I actually think it's a good conversation for people to be having.â€
According to a wide assortment of bankers and hedge-fund managers I spoke to for this article, Clinton's rock-solid support on Wall Street is not anything that can be dislodged based on a few seemingly off-the-cuff comments in Boston calculated to protect her left flank. (For the record, she quickly walked them back, saying she had "short-handed" her comments about the failures of trickle-down economics by suggesting, absurdly, that corporations don't create jobs.) "I think people are very excited about Hillary," says one Wall Street investment professional with close ties to Washington. "Most people in New York on the finance side view her as being very pragmatic. I think they have confidence that she understands how things work and that she's not a populist."A Wall St money manager said:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
These payments were bribes and/or extortion. They had nothing whatsoever to do with the speeches Hillary Clinton gave. I doubt anyone attended her speeches who did not have to be there and I doubt anyone stayed awake through the entire speech.
Wonder if the big cheese bankers wanted to hear about Benghazi Clinton’s other big leadership success?
No surprise Burney is on a roll with the die hard libs. Hillary is a crony capitalist fellow traveler.
I recall a recent story about the special forces guy who shot bin Laden is now in legal trouble because he ‘sold his story’.
"America is for sale. The bidding starts now!"
What a criminal slut...
Her and Chelsea, the political version of Two Broke Girls
It was protection money.
None of these banks want to be the next Lehman and get thrown to the wolves.
“What a criminal slut...”
She’s the gal that nailed Bib Laden. A real life Mata Hillari.
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