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ChisolmTrailDem

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7. That begs the question I haven't considered before:

Mon Sep 15, 2014, 11:25 AM

Sep 2014

Just who are the people that Hillary considers her close friends? I'm not talking about the niceties of "And now I'd like to introduce to you, my friend, David Axelrod." I'm talking about true friends. Is Alice Walton a true friend of Hillary's? I don't know, but a lot can be learned from knowing this information.

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Meet the 25 Billionaires Who Control Everything (per Brookings Institution) [View all] Octafish Sep 2014 OP

It's great to be very rich in the U.S. NT Trillo Sep 2014 #1

Everybody's your friend when you're rich. Octafish Sep 2014 #20

USA is number one! For billionaires and mega-millionaires. nt valerief Sep 2014 #2

Some believe it's our duty to make the world safe for them. Octafish Sep 2014 #21

And almost all of them are republicans bigdarryl Sep 2014 #3

or libertarian - which to me is the crazy wing of the crazy party rurallib Sep 2014 #5

ironically enough, there used to be a moderate wing to that party hfojvt Sep 2014 #12

I often wonder if many of those became blue-dog dems or rurallib Sep 2014 #13

Hillary was a Rockefeller Republican Laughing Mirror Sep 2014 #37

she worked for Goldwater IIRC rurallib Sep 2014 #41

Ha! Alice Walton big-time supporter of Hillary Clinton. closeupready Sep 2014 #4

That begs the question I haven't considered before: ChisolmTrailDem Sep 2014 #7

If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog Demeter Sep 2014 #18

Those people don't frequent the same places I do. JEB Sep 2014 #6

Almost all are old, white men. chervilant Sep 2014 #8

Neither did the Koch Bros or Donald Trump geardaddy Sep 2014 #9

Except here's a news flash: Sam Walton sucked also. HughBeaumont Sep 2014 #35

Not initially... chervilant Sep 2014 #36

Billionaires ought to be taxed out of existence. hunter Sep 2014 #10

+several brazillion Demeter Sep 2014 #17

^^This!^^ BrotherIvan Sep 2014 #30

A perfect analogy. hifiguy Sep 2014 #34

"control everything" hfojvt Sep 2014 #11

Lenin declared that �A few hundred multi-millionaires and millionaires OnyxCollie Sep 2014 #14

that must have been hfojvt Sep 2014 #15

You mentioned Pete Peterson, OnyxCollie Sep 2014 #23

I'm halfway between you and the OP. It definitely is not 'control' but there is heavy influence stevenleser Sep 2014 #19

That's a reasonable number of targets Demeter Sep 2014 #16

vs. the police forces they've militarized? moondust Sep 2014 #28

Oh, they did. It's just that they were outnumbered Demeter Sep 2014 #38

Donald Trump is a Billionaire? Says who ?? flying-skeleton Sep 2014 #22

A number of those persons support some progressive causes JPZenger Sep 2014 #24

You need a better example. OnyxCollie Sep 2014 #25

serving as a neolib in a neolib's neolib Cabinet is not "progressive" nor "giving something back" MisterP Sep 2014 #33

Penny gave herself back all the cash she put into Obama's campaign Demeter Sep 2014 #39

K&R Cleita Sep 2014 #26

Kochs probably spend more than all others COMBINED. ErikJ Sep 2014 #27

What amazes me the Koch money is an outright personal buy for influence in the Political Elite. gordianot Sep 2014 #29

Most of Koch spending is on negative attack ads. ErikJ Sep 2014 #31

Brookings can't convince me those other billionaires aren't also buying senators valerief Sep 2014 #32

Marc Andreessen is one of the biggest pigs walking. HughBeaumont Sep 2014 #40

George Carlin was right. It's a big club and we're not in it. Initech Sep 2014 #42