Jeb or Hillary...Wall Street's choice

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As one Wall Street lawyer put it, “If it turns out to be Jeb vs. Hillary, we would love that and either outcome would be fine.”

Indeed, if Clinton talks today about economic inequality while she throws her crown into the ring, she has a long and loyal relationship with money and power. Among the top ten contributors to her 2008 campaign were employees from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, CitiGroup, Morgan Stanley, and Lehman Brothers — institutions that can all benefit from a few friends in high places.

As secretary of state, she pressured governments to change policies and sign deals that would benefit US corporations like General Electric, Exxon Mobil, Microsoft, and Boeing. She also promoted hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and contracts with US oil companies like Chevron in Poland, Bulgaria, and elsewhere.

But perhaps her most telling corporate relationship is with the union-busting retail giant Walmart. Clinton served on the company’s board of directors from 1986 to 1992, and the law firm she worked for, Rose Law Firm, represented the corporation.

During those years, Clinton sat quietly as Walmart waged a war on workers trying to unionize and fight for basic rights on the job. This fealty to Walmart never wavered. During her three trips to India as secretary of state, she tried to convince the government to reverse its law aimed at keeping out big-box retailers.

Clinton’s newfound populism would be laughable if it weren’t for her actual record — decades’ worth of cruel attacks on workers and the poor. From support for welfare reform and tough-on-crime policies in the 1990s to shilling for US corporations abroad as secretary of state, Clinton has never strayed from the Democratic Party’s aim — protecting corporate America’s bottom line.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/05/hillary-clinton-president-walmart-business-feminist/


How do we get past this Oligarchy we are under with her as President and a Republican Congress?

[Agschmid]

1. Unrec.

There are clear differences between these two people. This article paints with too broad of a brush.

[UglyGreed]

2. Yup a win win for them

not so much for us "regular people"

[nc4bo]

3. We can always say she's better than a republican.

At least the wounds are less fatal using smaller knives and many tiny cuts over a longer period of time vs with a machete and a split second?

[SHRED]

4. And she will feel no obligation to listen to the Left

[nc4bo]

8. She really would not anyway.

Pres. Obama really hasn't either.

So an HRC presidency would simply be more of the same if not slightly worse.

[NorthCarolina]

5. TPTB would be comletely happy with a Jeb/Hillary race. It's what they planned for

and have been banking on. A win-win proposition for the moneyed interests (as usual), and an abject loss for America.

[global1]

6. Ahh!!! - The Presumptive Nominees - Even Before The Primary Race & Debates Started....

Why do we even go through the motions to do all that - when they knew from the start how this would turn out.

So when is Jeb! going to make his move? When will Trump, Carson and Cruz tank?

The fix was in right from the start. Why do 'We The People' tolerate this?

This is exactly why they are blacking Bernie's successes out. Bernie poses a threat to Wall Street, the 1%'ers and the Corps.

This is exactly why I support Bernie. This is why we need a 'Political Revolution' to take back our country.

[WillyT]

7. K & R !!!

[Broward]

9. Hillary v. any Repub - Wall Street can't lose.

[Scuba]

10. On defense and economics Hillary and Jeb are pretty much indistinguishable.

[olddots]

11. the rebutals to this speak for themselves

silently .

[Doctor_J]

12. Duh. I posted this 6 months ago and haven't wavered from it one micron

They are practically related.

[L. Coyote]

13. On Fri Dec 4, 2015, 10:41 AM an alert was sent on the following post:

On Fri Dec 4, 2015, 10:41 AM an alert was sent on the following post:

Jeb or Hillary...Wall Street's choice
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251873194

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

From the TOS: Neither are certain extreme-fringe left-wingers, including advocates of violent political/social change, hard-line communists, terrorist-apologists, America-haters, kooks, crackpots, LaRouchies, and the like.

Even the publisher of the magazine calls themselves a radical socialist publication.

Please folks, can we just stop bringing the crazy right or left extremes to DU in order to attack a Democratic candidate.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Fri Dec 4, 2015, 10:54 AM, and the Jury voted 0-7 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Most of this has been an ongoing discussion here, topic is fine for discussion. If they are alerting on the source, I don't know that much about them but their founder/editor is a regular contributor to The Nation which I have much respect for.
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Really - Poster seems to stating facts. Hillary people need to take a pill
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: jury abuse
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Why on earth was this alerted, other than the alerter disagrees? Honestly, this post uses no insulting or inflammatory language, and represents an opinion held by many.
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Rather than alert, why don't you provide support for an argument that takes the opposite viewpoint? Isn't that what discourse is all about? Full disclosure: I'm not taking sides.
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Impulsive alertist. This is GDP fer crisakes. Get over your old self.

[SHRED]

14. Wow

Slam dunk.

[Cheese Sandwich]

15. Makes sense. A corporate GOP or a corporate Dem... They win either way.