Corporate Shillary

One of the most important issues in this election is Campaign Finance Reform. The reason it is so important, corporate interests have tendrils throughout our government. If politicians are receiving large sums of money from corporations and special interest, who are they beholden to? Certainly not the American people. Huge campaign donations made thanks to citizens united and the creation of Super PACs have made the corruption problem even worse. Hillary Clinton has deep ties to wall Street. She has given dozens of paid speeches for up to $275,000 each. Her response to the criticism, paraphrasing here....everyone does it. Do I need to pull out the old adage about jumping off a bridge?

Per Wikipedia, "A shill...is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with the person or organization."

Hillary Clinton refutes any discussion regarding her ties to Wall Street and refuses to release the transcripts of these speeches, her standard speaking contract, includes clauses that prohibit recording of the speech, and whoever is paying for the speech must agree to pay $1,250 to a stenographer, who will transcribe the speech for Clinton’s records.  She said she will look in to getting the transcripts, but according to her own contract they are in her possession.  What does she say in those speeches that she does not want to release?  Would they lean along the lines of Romney's 47% of people feel they are entitled to healthcare a place to live and food comments?  Who knows?  She won't release them.  Some insiders have come out to say that she sounded like a managing director for Goldman-Sachs and that it was a "rah rah" speech.

She sat on the board of Wal-Mart for six years.  They pay some of the lowest wages in the country and are one of the biggest beneficiaries in the Welfare system, even passing out food stamp applications with job offers.  Not to say she did not do some good on the board pushing for more women in management and better environmental policies, but she was largely silent on the fight with the retail workers union.

I welcome any comment and opinions on this matter, and I am always open to discussion.