When asked how his plans for regulating Wall Street would differ from those proposed by Hillary Clinton during Sunday night’s Democratic presidential debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) took a shot at the former secretary of state’s income from speaking fees.
“Well, the first difference is I don’t take money from big banks. I don’t get personal speaking fees from Goldman Sachs,” Sanders said in response, before launching into his plans for regulating Wall Street.
So far Goldman Sachs has loaned Cruz a million and paid HRC 200K for a speech.
But I’m sure that they expect nothing in return for the money.
Pretty sure Cruz needed that loan a lot more than Hillary needed that speaking fee.
But she wasn’t running for president when she took the money. I am not sure that is such a great argument. You can take their money and not necessarily give them special favors. It doesn’t have to work that way. There are a lot of democrats on Wall Street and a lot of them supported Obama. I am glad they did
Meanwhile, doctors can’t even accept pens from drug reps because that would just be too enticing.
I’m okay with that, but it’s ludicrous to pretend politicians are somehow above that conflict of interest.
Last night with John Oliver went over how drug reps influence doctors, take a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQZ2UeOTO3I