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EUPHEMISTICALLY BEING HILLARY

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Written by James and Jean Anton   
Friday, 29 January 2016 06:48

Nonhuman people (euphemisms for corporations) that front for a tiny number of successful (euphemism for the one percent) human people, who want to own everything (euphemistically called ‘privatization’), have made Hillary Clinton fabulously rich. They have put over $125 million since 2001 into her own, personal bank account.

CEOs of these mega-corporations (euphemisms for Masters of the Universe) appear to value her presence so much that they are willing to pay obscene amounts of money to hear her speak.
Apparently… anyway.

Neither the mega-corporations nor Hillary have said what makes her talks so valuable. Her ‘speeches’ were closed to the media and contractually required to have no recordings or transcripts. When asked recently if she would be willing to release the transcript of her speeches to Goldman Sachs (which paid her more than $600,000), she just laughed scornfully. (Laughing being a euphemism for ‘don’t make me laugh’.)

But wasn’t the request valid?
After all, 600 thousand dollars is nothing to sniff at… if there was a speech, it must have been some hot damn speech. Shouldn’t she share what she knows with the American people too? After all she is running for president of the American people, isn’t she? Not for the Presidency of Goldman Sachs.

Her secrecy about the speeches and the untoward, obscene payments (a quick calculation reveals they paid her an average of $9,571 per minute) puzzle some of us. Even those of us who are trying their best to trust her (and promise to vote for her if Sanders loses the primary to her because of the dangers of electing a Republican president) wonder why she should command such astounding fees when truth be told, she’s no Winston Churchill, no Martin Luther King… no John F. Kennedy.

Hillary ‘earned’ a total of $21.7 million for a total of 53 hours of work over the last two years. This figure does not include ‘honoraria’ from the Clinton Foundation (foundations being euphemisms for organizations dedicated to protecting the wealth and power of the one percent). Since the Clinton Foundation is a charitable foundation, it does not have to disclose to the IRS what it pays to speakers (even if the fees are paid to her).

When asked by a reporter to see manuscripts of the speeches, Hillary could have said, ‘Sure! I’m so happy you’re interested in them. I will also provide transcripts of my other speeches to Citigroup, and JPMorgan Chase, other Wall Street firms, big banks, and big pharma because I have absolutely nothing to hide.’
But she didn’t. And she won’t.

In the third debate, Bernie Sanders suggested that getting paid $600,000 dollars from Goldman Sachs is wrong because it might influence her judgment when she is President of the United States.

“How dare you question my integrity,” was her righteous-sounding answer (‘How dare you question my integrity’ being a euphemism for ‘how dare you suggest that there is anything wrong with what I did.’). Like all righteous-sounding objections, it was intended to silence the questioner.
It didn’t.
Bernie retorted that it would be ‘naïve’ to believe that mega-corporations like Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, the big banks and pharmaceutical companies would not demand payback later. After all they work for profit. Everything they do is for profit. Profit is their raison d'être.

Only yesterday, 28 January 2016, Hillary flew to Philadelphia to meet with Franklin Square Capital Partners. Sanders, who was on the campaign trail in Iowa, said, "My opponent is not in Iowa tonight. She is raising money from a Philadelphia investment firm," …

Her meeting with Franklin Square Capital Partners CEO Michael Forman and his executive management team was not open to the media or to the public.

Surprise, surprise.


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