Hypocrite multiplied. Panderer Magnificent. RedState:
Bonus:
Clinton’s most lucrative year was 2013, right after stepping down as secretary of state. That year, she made $2.3 million for three speeches to Goldman Sachs and individual speeches to Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Investments, Apollo Management Holdings, UBS, Bank of America, and Golden Tree Asset Managers.
The following year, she picked up $485,000 for a speech to Deutsche Bank and an address to Ameriprise. Last year, she made $150,000 from a lecture before the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
To put these numbers into perspective, compare them to lifetime earnings of the median American worker. In 2011, the Census Bureau estimated that, across all majors, a “bachelor’s degree holder can expect to earn about $2.4 million over his or her work life.” A Pew Research analysis published the same year estimated that a “typical high school graduate” can expect to make just $770,000 over the course of his or her lifetime.
Not to be outdone, while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, her husband, Bill Clinton, made $17 million giving speeches to the financial industry.
So all of this wailing and gnashing of teeth on her part are all a facade. She is not of “common” people even as she desperately tries to portray herself as one. Don’t get me wrong – if they can earn it, more power to them. But it is the height of hypocrisy, simple to pander to votes, to kvetch about the 1% where upon she (and horny Bill) have traded their political influence and power for dollar bills.
Lots of them. More than you and I will ever see.
