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Related: About this forum"Financial Strip-Mining"-- how capitalism has ruined the US. Bernie gets it, does Hillary?
Its shameless financial strip-mining: Les Leopold explains how the 1 percent killed the middle class
The "pro-business" model of capitalism is broken and getting worse, author and activist Les Leopold tells Salon
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/05/its_shameless_financial_strip_mining_les_leopold_explains_how_the_1_percent_killed_the_middle_class/
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"Financial Strip-Mining"-- how capitalism has ruined the US. Bernie gets it, does Hillary? (Original Post)
Fast Walker 52
Mar 2016
OP
We need a candidate who will give us back the money the 1% effectively stole from us.
reformist2
Mar 2016
#6
It's true they are just exploiting and extracting value out of people like we were a mineral mine or
Cheese Sandwich
Mar 2016
#8
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)1. of course she gets it!
Goldman Sachs didn't pay her big speaking fees for nothing.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)4. LOL!
djean111
(14,255 posts)2. I don't think Hillary sees anything wrong with it, quite frankly. n/t
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)5. and that is why so many of us have a problem with her candidacy.
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reformist2
(9,841 posts)6. We need a candidate who will give us back the money the 1% effectively stole from us.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)7. Environmental degradation is not a priority with Clinton. She seems to
be more interested in speaking fees. If those speeches are so benign, why hasn't she made them public?
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)8. It's true they are just exploiting and extracting value out of people like we were a mineral mine or
something like that. Bernie does get it and Hillary is part of the problem.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)9. updating the link
Bread and Circus
(9,454 posts)10. Bernie does get it!!!