Originally published in April 2015 by Voices of Liberty
A month ago the Washington Post
disclosed a juicy tidbit of information: the Algerian government made a contribution
of half a million dollars to the Clinton Foundation. This just happened to be at the exact time
the Algerian government was lobbying Hillary Clinton during her tenure as
Secretary of State.
Other than the eyebrows it
raises at first, this might not seem so scandalous if it weren’t for the fact
that Americans get punished for the same thing.
In 2011 and 2012, multiple American companies were charged and heavily penalized
under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
The corruption they were penalized for was making donations to foreign
charities.
The Obama administration acted
on the assumption that charitable donations abroad were meant to influence
civil servants to take a more favorable stand towards the American
businesses. Therefore, American
businesses get charges and heavy fines levied against them, but it’s alright
when the beneficiary of foreign corrupt practices is a sitting member of the
Cabinet. And this isn’t the first
foreign charitable gift the Clinton Foundation received during Hillary’s Cabinet
tenure.
“The U.A.E. gave us money,”
Bill Clinton said to the Miami Herald.
“Do we agree with everything they do?
No, but they help us fight ISIS.”
It looks like the former President would have us believe foreign corrupt
practices are okay if foreign governments are helping America prolong the Iraq
War…
One thing is crystal clear: when
vying for Hillary Clinton’s loyalty, money talks.
Her top political contributors
have historically included, and still include, big Wall Street firms like
Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley, Lehman
Brothers, and Time Warner. These numbers
don’t include any foreign or domestic groups that donated to the Clinton Foundation
to sway the Secretary of State.
As a Senator, in her statement
on the 2008 bailouts, she noted “the prevailing dynamic of corporate America,
where the sole priority was the dividend, the inflated bonus and the quarterly
earnings report…” She clearly had words
to say about “corporate America,” yet one can’t help but think this may have
just been political theater.
Senator Clinton’s pro-working-class,
pro-middle-class approach would have been a lot more credible had her top
campaign contributors been anyone OTHER than corporate America. And guess what! She voted for what the WSWS calls “the
largest single transfer of wealth to the financial elite in US history,” and it
was financed on the dime of struggling families.
Hillary Clinton talks a good
game about being for the interests of the working class and middle class, but that’s
just another li from another politician.
Hillary may certainly believe in empowering women, the LGBTQ community,
and ethnic minorities. However, her
actions show how she just wants some of those people to be among the ruling
elites.
Hillary Clinton is with Wall
Street, not Main Street.
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Hillary Clinton photo courtesy of the Munich Security Conference via CC BY 3.0 license.
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