“The wealth of another region excites their greed; and if it is weak, their lust for power as well. Nothing from the rising to the setting of the sun is enough for them.
Among all others only they are compelled to attack the poor as well as the rich. Robbery, rape, and slaughter they falsely call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.”
Tacitus, Agricola
People are discouraged and disillusioned after almost thirty years of distorted governance, specially in the aftermath of the ‘Hope and Change’ which quickly became ‘Vain Hope for Change.’ Most cannot admit that their guys were in the pockets of Big Defense, Big Pharma, Big Energy, and Wall Street.
The real question about Hillary comes down to this. Can you trust her to do what she says she will do, the right things for her putative constituents and not her big money donors and paymasters, once she takes office?
Or will that poor family who left the White House ‘broke’ and then mysteriously obtained a fortune of over $100 million in the following years, thanks to enormous payments for ‘speeches’ from large financial firms and huge donations to their Trust once again take care of the hand that pays them the most?
This is not to say that there is a better alternative amongst the leading Republican candidates, who have been and are still under the same types of payment arrangements, only with different people signing the checks.
This post was published at Jesses Crossroads Cafe on 17 NOVEMBER 2015.
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