"Financial Strip-Mining"-- how capitalism has ruined the US. Bernie gets it, does Hillary?

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“It’s 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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1. of course she gets it!

Goldman Sachs didn't pay her big speaking fees for nothing.

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4. LOL!

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2. I don't think Hillary sees anything wrong with it, quite frankly. n/t

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5. and that is why so many of us have a problem with her candidacy.

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6. We need a candidate who will give us back the money the 1% effectively stole from us.

[ladjf]

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]

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.

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9. updating the link

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/06/its_shameless_financial_strip_mining_les_leopold_explains_how_the_1_percent_killed_the_middle_class/

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10. Bernie does get it!!!