Worker's Paradise

[69dejavue]

The Little Red Hen ------------------

 

 

 

The little red hen called all of her Democrat neighbors together and said, "If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?"

 

"Not I," said the cow.

 

"Not I," said the duck.

 

"Not I," said the pig.

 

"Not I," said the goose.

 

"Then I will do it by myself," said the little red hen, and so

 

she did. The wheat grew very tall and ripened into golden grain.

 

"Who will help me reap my wheat?" asked the little red hen.

 

“Not I," said the duck.

 

“Out of my classification," said the pig.

 

"I'd lose my seniority," said the cow.

 

"I'd lose my unemployment compensation," said the goose.

 

"Then I will do it by myself," said the little red hen, and so

 

she did.

 

At last it came time to bake the bread.

 

"Who will help me bake the bread?" asked the little red hen.

 

"That would be overtime for me," said the cow.

 

"I'd lose my welfare benefits," said the duck.

 

"I'm a dropout and never learned how," said the pig.

 

"If I'm to be the only helper, that's discrimination," said the goose.

 

“Then I will do it by myself," said the little red hen.

 

She baked five loaves and held them up for all of her neighbors to see. They wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But the little red hen said, "No, I shall eat all five loaves."

 

"Excess profits!" cried the cow. (Nancy Pelosi)

 

"Capitalist leech!" screamed the duck. (Barbara Boxer)

 

"I demand equal rights!" yelled the goose. (Jesse Jackson)

 

The pig just grunted in disdain. (Ted Kennedy)

 

And they all painted 'Unfair!' picket signs and marched around and around the little red hen, shouting obscenities.

 

Then the farmer (Obama) came. He said to the little red hen, "You must not be so greedy."

 

"But I earned the bread," said the little red hen.”

 

“Exactly," said Barack the farmer. "That is what makes our free enterprise system so wonderful. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern government regulations, the productive workers must divide the fruits of their labor with those who are lazy and idle."

 

And they all lived happily ever after, including the little red

 

hen, who smiled and clucked, "I am grateful, for now I truly understand." But her neighbors became quite disappointed in her. She never again baked bread because she joined the 'party' and got her bread free. And all the Democrats smiled. 'Fairness' had been established.

 

Individual initiative had died, but nobody noticed; perhaps no one cared...so long as there was free bread that 'the rich' were paying for.

 

EPILOGUE

 

Bill Clinton is getting $12 million for his memoirs.

 

Hillary got $8 million for hers.

 

That's $20 million for the memories from two people, who for eight years, repeatedly testified, under oath, that they couldn't remember anything.

 

IS THIS A GREAT BARNYARD OR WHAT?

[svtkeith]

Now that was well put together...And to the point.

[stormeaston]

[Boss Doctor]

[SicShelby]

Unfortunate... but true.

 

What ever happened discipline?

[JeffIsHereToo]

Bill Clinton is getting $12 million for his memoirs.

 

Hillary got $8 million for hers.

 

That's $20 million for the memories from two people, who for eight years, repeatedly testified, under oath, that they couldn't remember anything.

 

Well, let's look at some facts here rather than fiction...BTW the total speech take is much more...

 

Last year, according to a Washington Post article, Clinton gave 352 speeches. Of the $10 million he reportedly "earned" last year, only 20 percent was for personal income.

 

So that is 352 speeches with 2 million dollars going into Bill Clinton's pocket.

 

"Indeed, the Clintons -- who left the White House with an estimated $12 million in legal debts rung up during the Whitewater, campaign fundraising and Monica S. Lewinsky investigations" Republican which hunts that after years and millions of tax payer dollars found NOTHING implicating the Clintons.

 

Now.. let's go back to 1989.. when right after leaving office Reagan flew off to Japan for nine days and pocketed 2 million dollars for just two speeches.

 

Now Clinton did make $475,000 once for 2 speeches. However, still, his average personal take last year was $5681 per speech, a lot of money for you and me but less than a lot of others could earn. (Also, the article reports that the elder Bush also has received six figure speaking fees.)

 

Now, no doubt, Reagan also gave speeches where his fee was donated. Still, if Clinton gave two speeches for two million dollars, there would be questions, especially if he did so right after he left office.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...7022202189.html

[69dejavue]

Well, let's look at some facts here rather than fiction...BTW the total speech take is much more...

 

Last year, according to a Washington Post article, Clinton gave 352 speeches. Of the $10 million he reportedly "earned" last year, only 20 percent was for personal income.

 

So that is 352 speeches with 2 million dollars going into Bill Clinton's pocket.

 

"Indeed, the Clintons -- who left the White House with an estimated $12 million in legal debts rung up during the Whitewater, campaign fundraising and Monica S. Lewinsky investigations" Republican which hunts that after years and millions of tax payer dollars found NOTHING implicating the Clintons.

 

Now.. let's go back to 1989.. when right after leaving office Reagan flew off to Japan for nine days and pocketed 2 million dollars for just two speeches.

 

Now Clinton did make $475,000 once for 2 speeches. However, still, his average personal take last year was $5681 per speech, a lot of money for you and me but less than a lot of others could earn. (Also, the article reports that the elder Bush also has received six figure speaking fees.)

 

Now, no doubt, Reagan also gave speeches where his fee was donated. Still, if Clinton gave two speeches for two million dollars, there would be questions, especially if he did so right after he left office.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...7022202189.html

 

 

Well lets look at some facts here......If Klinton earned 10 million but only kept 2 million for personal income? Then where did the other 8 million go? Contributions to the Klinton-Hustler library should not be tax deductible. Lets look at some facts here. Millions spent to implicate the Klintons and..........convictions in the White Water Case, convictions in campaign finance, convictions in Monica Lewinsky case. Yep, I would call those facts......facts the Klintons would like to disappear.

[69dejavue]

Well, let's look at some facts here rather than fiction...BTW the total speech take is much more...

 

Last year, according to a Washington Post article, Clinton gave 352 speeches. Of the $10 million he reportedly "earned" last year, only 20 percent was for personal income.

 

So that is 352 speeches with 2 million dollars going into Bill Clinton's pocket.

 

"Indeed, the Clintons -- who left the White House with an estimated $12 million in legal debts rung up during the Whitewater, campaign fundraising and Monica S. Lewinsky investigations" Republican which hunts that after years and millions of tax payer dollars found NOTHING implicating the Clintons.

 

Now.. let's go back to 1989.. when right after leaving office Reagan flew off to Japan for nine days and pocketed 2 million dollars for just two speeches.

 

Now Clinton did make $475,000 once for 2 speeches. However, still, his average personal take last year was $5681 per speech, a lot of money for you and me but less than a lot of others could earn. (Also, the article reports that the elder Bush also has received six figure speaking fees.)

, no doubt, Reagan also gave speeches where his fee was donated. Still, if Clinton gave two speeches for two million dollars, there would be questions, especially if he did so right after he left office.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...7022202189.html

 

 

Jeff, how much did Klinton earn as a lobbyist for Dubai and other middle eastern concerns in the last 8 years?

[69dejavue]

Bill Clinton Earned $15.4 Million From Burkle Firm (Update2)

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By Ryan J. Donmoyer

 

April 5 (Bloomberg) -- Former President Bill Clinton has earned $15.4 million from billionaire Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Cos. investment firm since 2003, according to tax documents released by his wife, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

 

The earnings represent 20 percent of the approximately $75 million Bill Clinton earned during the same period, according to the documents. That may raise new questions about what services he performed for Los Angeles-based Yucaipa, whose investors include the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al- Maktoum.

 

Tax lawyers said the Yucaipa partnership income for Bill Clinton looks to be a form of salary because it was in round numbers for most years.

 

``Most people who make that much money work for it,'' said Yale University tax law professor Michael Graetz, a former Treasury Department official in President George H.W. Bush's administration. ``What are they being paid for, and if it's the Sheikh of Dubai paying the husband of somebody who might be the next president of the United States, what do they think they're paying for?''

 

Jay Carson, a spokesman for New York Senator Clinton, said in an e-mailed statement that former President Clinton is a partner in a Yucaipa fund and ``provides his best advice on potential investments, advocates generally on behalf of the funds, and seeks to create opportunities for investors to consider investing in the fund.''

 

Carson didn't respond to a question about whether Bill Clinton did any work for Dubai. In 2006 Senator Clinton opposed efforts by a Dubai-based company to acquire control over six U.S. ports.

 

Tax Returns

 

The payments from Yucaipa to Bill Clinton were detailed in seven years of tax returns released by Hillary Clinton, 60, following pressure to disclose them from rival Barack Obama, the Illinois senator who made public his own returns in March.

 

The returns covered tax years 2000 through 2006. Hillary Clinton's campaign also released information about the couple's 2007 income, although they haven't yet filed a return for that year. Obama has yet to release information on his 2007 income.

 

The former president, 61, received $1 million from Yucaipa in 2003, $4 million in 2004 and $5 million in 2005. In 2006, he received a guaranteed payment of $2.5 million plus a $156,611 share of the profits. The campaign said he earned $2.75 million from partnership income in 2007.

 

Amounts `Odd'

 

``The flat amounts received from Yucaipa are odd,'' said Tom Ochsenschlager, vice president of taxation at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, who agreed that it signaled Bill Clinton was performing a service. ``That's quite unusual.''

 

Previously, Hillary Clinton reported only that the former president earned ``more than $1,000'' a year from Yucaipa on financial disclosure forms she is required to file in the Senate.

 

In all, the Clintons earned $109 million from 2000 through 2007 and paid $33.8 million in federal taxes, the returns and campaign documents show. They donated $10.3 million of their income over that time to charities.

 

The bulk of those charitable donations went to the family foundation. From 2002 through 2006, $5.9 million of the $6.4 million, or 93 percent, of the Clinton's charitable giving went directly to the Clinton Family Foundation, according to the tax returns and foundation records.

 

Cayman Islands Funds

 

The tax returns indicate the couple paid all the U.S. federal taxes owed on the income from Yucaipa, which controls three funds located in the Cayman Islands. The Cayman Islands doesn't charge any individual or corporate income tax and has strict bank secrecy laws.

 

Bill Clinton's ties to Yucaipa have sparked controversy over the past year, including a September report in the Wall Street Journal that detailed how one of the former president's aides had helped arrange a partnership with Burkle that dissolved amid litigation over allegations of misused funds.

 

Yucaipa spokesman Frank Quintero didn't return calls seeking comment about what services Bill Clinton performed for the company. Forbes Magazine listed Burkle, 55, as the 91st richest American last year, with a net worth of $3.5 billion.

 

Bill Clinton also earned $800,000 in 2006 and 2007 as an adviser to infoUSA Inc., a data-mining company owned by Vinod Gupta, a longtime supporter.

 

Carson said in December that the former president ``is taking steps to ensure'' that ``there will be an appropriate transition from those relationships'' if his wife receives the Democratic presidential nomination.

 

Rising Income

 

The 210 pages of documents released yesterday chronicle the Clintons' rising income since 1999, the last year for which they had previously released a tax return. The couple earned $20.4 million last year, compared with less than $420,000 in 1999, the year before they left the White House.

 

The bulk of their income, $51.9 million, came from Bill Clinton's speeches, the campaign said in a summary. The former president also earned $1.2 million from his presidential pension and $29.6 million from royalties and an advance for his autobiography.

 

Hillary Clinton earned $10.5 million in book royalties and advances and a total of $1.1 million from her Senate salaries since 2001. In 1999, the Clintons earned $417,467, had $334,681 in taxable income after deductions including $39,200 to charity, and paid $92,104 in federal taxes.

 

Among other details the couple listed $250,000 in cleaning and maintenance expenses on their home for 2003 and 2004 for which they took a partial deduction for their separate home offices.

 

At a Democratic Party convention in Grand Forks, North Dakota, last night, Hillary Clinton said that her husband ``has made a lot of money since he left the White House doing what he loves most, talking to people.''

 

To contact the reporter on this story: Ryan J. Donmoyer in Washington at rdonmoyer@bloomberg.net;

[69dejavue]

FOLLOW HILLARY CLINTON’S MONEY!

By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann 02.11.2008 Published on FOXNews.com on February 8, 2008.

 

Hillary Clinton’s decision to lend her presidential campaign $5 million raises a key question: Where did the money come from?

 

Hillary says it’s all her money. But, is it?

 

 

The Clintons had a negative net worth when they left the White House. They had lucrative book deals for their memoirs. Together, they pocketed an estimated $20 million in advances and royalties during the past seven years, before federal and New York state taxes. But, they’ve also spent a lot of it: they’ve purchased two homes valued at over $5 million, commissioned an addition of over $1 million to the D.C. mansion that Hillary shares with her mother, paid over $4 million in legal fees, and, in addition to taxes, presumably paid normal living expenses.

 

According to Hillary’s financial statements, the remainder of their income, apart from her Senate salary of $162,500, comes from Bill’s speeches (many to foreign audiences and corporations doing business with foreign countries), $3.3 million from InfoUSA (a company reportedly under investigation for providing lists of vulnerable elderly to criminal con artists), and a reported $10 million a year from a partnership with supermarket magnate Ron Burkle and the Emir of Dubai to manage the Sheikh’s investments.

 

Their substantial income from foreign sources makes it appropriate to ask if the funds now flowing into the Clinton campaign from their joint personal finances are just laundered overseas money which could not be given directly to Hillary’s treasury.

Unlike previous presidential candidates, like Bill, Hillary has refused to release her income tax returns and won’t indicate how much her husband gets from his partnership with the Emir of Dubai. On her disclosure form she only indicates, as required, that it comes to more than $1,000 a year.

 

But newspaper reports suggest that, in addition to the $10 million given to Bill annually, he is seeking a buyout of his share of the partnership for an additional $20 million. Could that windfall be funding Hillary’s campaign? And, if it is, is the Emir passing money through Bill to help Hillary get elected?

 

Foreigners are not allowed to contribute to presidential campaigns. But Bill’s 1996 campaign was accused of taking funds from the Chinese government passed through James Riady and through Al Gore’s visit to a Buddhist temple.

The Emir of Dubai must be smarting from the rejection of his efforts to take over security for key American ports and one can easily imagine that a desire for political acceptance by the next president may have been behind his generosity to Bill Clinton over this decade. Dubai has been gobbling up U.S. businesses. It recently bought a 20 percent stake in Nasdaq, Barney’s, Loehmann’s, it bought the Essex House Hotel, a 4 percent stake in Chrysler, a $5 million stake in MGM Mirage. In other words, Dubai is here to stay and may need help and permission for further investments from the federal government. Is it too much of a leap to speculate that the Emir might want to protect his investment by buying out Bill so that he can lend much needed cash to Hillary at a crucial moment in her campaign?

 

Especially at a time when Dubai and other foreign sovereign wealth funds are seeking to buy significant shares of cash-poor American banks, the major infusion of money into the Clinton campaign from the Middle East could become an important campaign issue.

 

Hillary and Bill could clear all this up by simply releasing the details of their personal finances as it was once customary for candidates to do. Unlike Mitt Romney who is funding his campaign with personal wealth that is both inherited and amassed over the years, the Clintons’ wealth is of very recent origin and much of it may represent the fruits of influence seeking by wealthy foreigners like the Emir of Dubai.

 

As long as Hillary and Bill’s personal finances were, indeed, personal, questions about the source of their newfound wealth were on the periphery of the campaign. But now that this personal money is funding her campaign, voters are entitled to answers about what they made from who and where the $5 million comes from.

 

It’s time for the Clintons to release their tax returns — as Obama has done — and disclose all of the contributors to the Library.