Monday, April 18, 2016

Taking Money From Wall Street, Does It Change Anything?

Happy work week, Friends,

Here's what I know. Money talks.

Are we really naive enough to swallow that Wall Street expects nothing in return for pumping millions of dollars into a candidate's coffers?
A message from Hillary Clinton: I want all my supporters to know
that I gladly accept as much money as I can from Wall Street because
 they're so nice. They never ask for anything in return.

Here's what they do expect. Wall Street expects a candidate to support a bankruptcy bill that forces people in dire straits from credit card debt to pay up. And that's exactly what Hillary Clinton did as a U.S. Senator.

Wall Street expects not to see legislation breaking up the enormous financial institutions responsible for causing us so much pain. And that's what we've gotten. And that's what the political establishment they fund will obediently continue to dish out.

Here's a simple question. Who would you prefer to represent the interests of us, the shrinking middle class, a candidate whose income was  $28.5 million last year from God knows what, or a candidate who earned less last year than a single speech his party-backed opponent gave to Goldman Sachs?

Wake up America!

Only two candidates are telling you you're getting screwed. Do you think they're lying?

Friends, they are telling you the absolute truth. But only one of those candidates has a lifelong track record of working for reform and doing exactly what he says he'll do to help the middle class.

I believe his time has finally come, and it's worth giving his ideas, which are truly just the Democratic party's principles of FDR and Harry Truman, a fair chance.

He's built a unimaginably successful campaign raising hundred of millions of dollars from small contributions and is beholden to no one but his individual supporters. This is nothing short of miraculous in a system tilted in favor of big donors and Super PACs.

Both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump say the system is broken. I agree but don't want to see it fixed with a billionaire at its helm. Why would a rich narcissist be concerned about helping the likes of me?

The way forward is pretty clear.

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