Get
this: The president of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter has apologized to
the company’s clients for inviting Bill Clinton to address a company
conference last week. It seems that some of Morgan Stanley’s clients
took a break from investing in Third World sweatshops to complain about
their broker paying the ex-president an estimated $150,000 to entertain
the firm’s annual "High Net Worth" conference in Florida.
Talk
about ingrates!
Bill
Clinton spent eight years carrying water for Wall Street — supporting
NAFTA, GATT, permanent normal trade relations with China and every other
sleazy deal that put the U.S. government on the side of corporate profits
at the expense of workers, the environment and human rights. Clinton
cheated social spending in order to eliminate the deficit — allowing
business to reap record profits while the number of Americans without
health insurance rose. Clinton even supported tax breaks that grew the
gap between rich and poor to unprecedented levels.
By
any measure, Bill Clinton was the best president Wall Street ever had.
But
now that he is no longer in a position to deliver for his corporate
pals, he is persona non grata.
That’s
gratitude for ya.
Copyright 2001 The Capital Times
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