Let the Kickbacks and Political Paybacks Begin, Chicago Style

April 28, 2017

Obama pocketed two $400,000 speaking fees this week for one-hour speeches.  One was from the Wall Street too-big-to-fail-bailout-recipient bankster firm of Cantor Fitzgerald, and the other was a media company.  The former is comprised of the “fat cat Wall Street bankers” who Obama pretended to condemn when he was emperor.  Pay-to-play politics is getting very expensive now that the Chicago political mafia has been involved in it at the federal level for so long.

 

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Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real LincolnHow Capitalism Saved AmericaLincoln UnmaskedHamilton's CurseOrganized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About GovernmentThe Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics