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Hillary Lied (again)

Lies of omission are still lies.

Hillary Clinton hid some $24 MILLION DOLLARS when she listed their income for 2004 - 2006.

What a shock!

From the McClatchy:

WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Clinton excluded nearly $24 million of her
husband's earnings from Senate financial statements from 2004 through
2006, capitalizing on rules that permit senators to limit disclosures
of some of their spouses' income.

[snip]

Bill Buzenberg, the executive director of the Washington-based
Center for Public Integrity, said that the disclosures by the Clintons
and McCain were ``inadequate.''

``There's no other way to
sugarcoat it,'' he said. ``It's not transparent. It needs to be because
it does potentially involve all kinds of entangling things we don't
know.''

The Clintons' tax returns show that Bill Clinton earned
nearly $51 million from 2004 through 2006. His wife informed the Senate
of about $27 million of it, consisting almost entirely of fees from his
globe-trotting speaking tours, from which he has fetched as much as
$400,000 for a single appearance.

Listing TWENTY FOUR MILLION under the category "over $1,000, while
allowed under the FEC guidelines, was meant to hide the income from the
American people.



So, $109 MILLION + $24 MILLION = The $133 MILLION couple.

What makes matters worse are the sources of a lot of the income:

2004 — Hillary Clinton reported on her Senate financial statement
that her husband earned about $9.5 million in 2004, plus unspecified
income from his writings, consulting and a partnership with private
equity fund chief Ronald Burkle. The Clintons' tax return showed that
he made $17.98 million that year, including as much as $4 million from
the offshore partnership with Burkle, the billionaire founder of the
Los Angeles-based Yucaipa Companies LLC.

2005 — Clinton reported on her Senate statement that her husband earned about $7.5 million in 2005, plus unspecified income from his writing and consulting. The Clintons' tax returns showed that he earned $17.33 million that year, including more than $5 million from the Yucaipa partnership.

2006 — Clinton reported on her Senate financial statement that her husband earned about $10.1 million in 2006, plus more than $3,000 in unspecified writing and consulting income. The Clintons' tax returns showed that the former president earned $16.42 million in 2006, including $400,000 from INFOUSA, an Omaha-based company that sells marketing information. He also received $2.6 million, some of it in ``guaranteed payments,'' from the Cayman Islands-based Yucaipa partnership, which invested in Xinhua Finance Media Ltd., China's leading, government-controlled financial and entertainment media company.

Make no mistake about it.  Bill's Yucaipa partnership, Chinese government corporations, etc. all played a major roll in their income.

These people aren't going to fix NAFTA or work on new trade deals with the best interest of Americans in mind. 

They aren't going to hold the Chinese government for their unfair trade practices. 

They're part of the cog that makes this outsourcing wheel go round & round.  They're profiting from it.  Just like the Bush's & Cheney's do from Halliburton & the big oil companies & Saudi Arabia.

And do you really think the fact that Hillary is the candidate who takes the most money from the insurance companies, health care industries, big oil cos. and big pharma co.s (than all the other candidate both still in the race and withdrawn from it...COMBINED) can be the one to fix these industries?

If you do, I want what you're smoking.

The Bush's. The Cheney's and The Clinton's are corrupt to their rotten cores and it's time for this country to wake up and start voting in their best interests.

If you want to understand why Barack Obama will never offer her V.P., you need only follow the money and the Clinton's connections.

He wouldn't stain himself with the criminality & scandals these two would undoubtedly bring  to his administration.

Not a chance.

Comments (2)

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When will the left-wing wackos with their elitist "math" stop whining about ethics and get behind The Rose of Scranton? Her tireless sacrifice in service to working-class America knows no bounds.

LOL.

Thanks for that.

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