Clinton’s Made More Than $25 million ‘Talk is Not Cheap’ hey
There is nothing like the freedom to make millions. According to the article this was around 104 speeches which equates to around 250,000 per speech. That is enough to pay 5 people on 50,000 salary for a whole year, not 20 minutes. As my heading says ‘talk is not cheap’. Bill is reported as saying “I gotta pay our bills,” he told NBC News. That’s a good one. This is what inequality looks like and it reflects a belief in many people they are worth-less. For myself, I don’t care about money at all. I am looking at the quality of character, that is what I value. I am interested in who people really are. What was interesting in the article is that the focus was only money not content on what was actually said. That would be an interesting analysis and may provide insights into what they want people to think.
I like this song, it just floated into my mind. Just exchange musicians for pollies. Poly want a cracker! I am sure they crack up a lot as we keep paying them. I think it sums it up beautifully.
I smile, yet again. What a game! How many homeless people could be given food and housed (tiny houses even)?
Clintons have made more than $25 million for speaking since January 2014
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During the 11 years Hillary Clinton served as a U.S. senator and then secretary of state, she reported that her husband made $105 million for delivering more than 540 speeches. Bill Clinton’s fees rose over time. In 2012, her last year at the State Department, he earned more than $16.3 million for 72 speeches.
Until Friday’s financial disclosure filing, there had not been a complete picture of which groups she addressed on the speaking circuit or how much she made.
According to the disclosure, Hillary Clinton delivered 51 speeches in 2014 and the first three months of 2015, earning more than $11 million. Her fees varied, but she earned as much as $315,000 for speaking to eBay in San Jose on March 11; she also collected $325,000 for speaking to the technology company Cisco in Las Vegas in August.
After she left her post, Hillary Clinton’s huge speaking fees at times attracted criticism. In particular, she charged as much as $300,000 to speak at public universities, though she generally donated the funds to Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. Those engagements are not reflected among the new disclosures, since they did not provide Clinton with personal income.
Her earnings drew immediate rebuke from Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who termed the haul “staggering” and said it showed how “out-of-touch [the Clintons have] truly become.”
The new information covers a period beginning in January 2014 and shows the Clintons were paid about $250,000 every time they spoke. She has not been required to release any details about what she earned in the 2013 calendar year after she leftthe State Department.
Now that she is running for president, Hillary Clinton has stopped giving paid speeches. But Bill Clinton said this month that he intends to continue to collect speaking fees, even as his wife campaigns.
“I gotta pay our bills,” he told NBC News.
According to the disclosure form, Bill Clinton has delivered 53 speeches since January 2014, including engagements this month. Clinton earned $500,000 on Tuesday alone, collecting $250,000 each for lectures at Univision and Apollo Management Holdings.
In May 2014, the former president was paid $275,000 to speak to the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies in Toronto.
Because the Clintons have kept their money in cash, they had no capital gains last year, a senior campaign official said. The couple liquidated their investments in 2007, during Hillary Clinton’s previous campaign for president, after federal officials deemed a blind trust established during Bill Clinton’s presidency to be out-of-date.
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The couple paid an effective tax rate of more than 30 percent, the campaign official said. They recently moved some of their money into a Vanguard index fund.
Rubio’s filing showed no change in his liabilities from 2013 to 2014. He holds three mortgages, including a home equity line of credit. Between the three, Rubio owes at least $450,000 and as much as $1 million. His assets — which include checking and savings accounts, college funds for his children and a rental property in Tallahassee — are worth between $361,018 and $1,035,000.
The filing shows his family’s income outside his congressional pay grew in 2014. His wife’s event-planning services firm, JDR Events, which he had indicated in 2013 had earned at least $1,000, did better in 2014, collecting somewhere between $15,001 and $50,000.
The New York Times reported this month that the foundation of Florida billionaire Norman Braman had hired Rubio’s wife through JDR Events to advise its charitable efforts. The Times said Braman had declined to discuss her compensation.
The Times also reported that Braman, a political and personal benefactor of Rubio’s, had underwritten his salary as a senior fellow at Florida International University. Rubio reported that in 2014, as in 2013, he was paid $22,115 for the job.
Presidential candidates are required to file the financial information with the Federal Election Commission within 30 days of declaring their candidacy. But they can seek up to two 45-day extensions. Republican candidates Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky sought extensions rather than filing Friday.
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Anupama Narayanswamy contributed to this report.