Harry, Louise and Hillary: Follow the Money

[K Gardner]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/11759

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Big Pharma and the Health Insurance Industry (MOTO) has already socked it to 'em. Even though you never heard the words, "single payer" even whispered, back in '93 when the Clintons were faking a Universal Health Plan, the "industry" dropped Harry and Louise, characters in a TV commercial, on them that exposed their plan as a "Rube Goldberg" that would never work. Now that Hillary is running for president, she is tinkering with another Hillarycare plan. This time she is making sure the plan won't offend the industry. So the industry has opened its "alms" to her.

According to the California Nurses Association and the National Nurses Organizing Committee, the healthcare industry (which includes drug and insurance companies) spent more that $2.2 billion on federal lobbying over the past decade. Senator Hillary Clinton (D) and Senator John McCain (R) collected 40% of the overall total.

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(the whole article is worth reading)

[TomClash]

1. I doubt it

That would mean Hillary and McCain collected at least $880 million. Not likely.

[K Gardner]

2. Is this likely... that she's the choice of the Military Industrial Complex..?

"That's capitalism, for you. Its nature is to show the appearance of democracy, masking the actuality of oligarchic control, while robbing the working class of the surplus value it creates. The Clintons have proven they can do the oligarchy's dirty work when called upon to do it. They will get the prize money for services rendered.

So, let's follow the money.

The Military Industrial Complex is a Member of the Oligarchy (MOTO). This year, the war industry, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop-Grumman, Raytheon and General Dynamics, to name a few, has shelled out more money to Democratic candidates than to Republicans, and Hillary has gotten the lion's share of that. The manipulators of power always hedge their bets. They play both sided against the middle."