Add Exxon (over $1mil to the Clinton Foundation) who is being investigated by the Justice Dept. for concealing evidence about climate change, and JP Morgan ($450k for speeches) to the list of corporations who, like Goldman Sachs and others, have perpetrated a corporate coup on our people.
It is well known by now that Goldman paid Hillary Clinton $675,000 for three speeches. More than that, former Goldman Sach’s vice-chairman Robert D. Hormats, a Hillary Clinton economic adviser in favor of deregulation, happens to be a big supporter of the TPP.
Note: Hillary promises to combat both Climate Change and the TPP despite the fact that Exxon, a million-dollar donor, is being investigated over climate change and that Goldman, a $675,000+ investor, is pushing for the TPP--even while one of their own serves as a Clinton economic adviser.
It is reported publicly that Clinton made $3,150,000 in 2013 from speaking to firms like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and UBS. Together, both Clintons have raked in $153,000,000 in speaking fees alone. That sum does not include donations received in addition to speaking fees. The Clintons "are the epitome of an established elitist family."
And so, in all of this there is still another question that must be answered. Do Exxon and other corporate sponsors claim their donations and speech costs as tax deductions? I assume they do. If so, then that underscores a disturbing fact--that these overarching corporate-political institutions like Exxon and Goldman recoup, in part, the money they pay the Clintons and other politicians. Not only do these companies benefit from loopholes exempting them from many corporate taxes, but part of both the Clinton’s take and Exxon’s profits derive from and deplete our tax base.
Collusion here, between the Clintons and Wall Street, is implicit. To demand explicit examples of "bought votes" or some other obvious manifestation of corruption is to be disingenuous. Deep corruption is rarely explicit, nearly always implicit. It is systemic and ubiquitous, the blood flowing through the veins of Washington D.C. and beyond. The Clintons are certainly not alone. The Democratic Party, to a large extent, is equally complicit. As for the Republican Party, its illicit relationships with Wall Street are well-established and perennial.
Hillary Clinton, in war and in peace, is above all else encumbered by business and big money interests. Otherwise she could never think of Iraq’s nearly 200,000 civilian victims of our misplaced intervention as, “a business opportunity” (2010), her full statement being reported in the International Business Times. The video included here is from The Kyle Kulinski Show, and it offers a thorough examination of the matter.