From SFGate:
Edwards charges $55,000 to speak to UC Davis students about poverty.
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, who recently proposed an educational policy that urged “every financial barrier” be removed for American kids who want to go to college, has been going to college himself — as a high paid speaker, his financial records show.
The candidate charged a whopping $55,000 to speak at to a crowd of 1,787 the taxpayer-funded University of California at Davis on Jan. 9, 2006 last year, Joe Martin, the public relations officer for the campus’ Mondavi Center confirmed Monday.
That amount — which comes to about $31 a person in the audience — included Edwards’ travel and airfare, and was the highest speaking fee in the nine appearances he made before colleges and universities last year, according to his financial records.
That could cause both parents and students to note some irony here: UC Davis — like the rest of the public University of California system — will get hit this year by a 7 percent tuition increase that likely hits many of the kids his speeches are aimed at helping.
We wondered if this is Edwards’ going speaking rate, and how come he didn’t offer to do it gratis for a college, particularly a public institution.
Edwards extracted his largest sum from a public institution funded by taxpayer money. He was, in essence, making more impoverished the very people who was taking to about ending poverty.
As candidate Edwards tells us, there are two Americas, one where people get paid $55,000 for a one hour speech and receive $400 haircuts and then the America the rest of us live in.
This guy is so out of touch with the masses its not even funny. Edwards is a classical Liberal Democrat. He will pledge and promise all the money from hard working American tax payers that he can get his grubby hands on … as long as it’s not HIS money he will pledge it to whoever and whatever he can.
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The most effective engine for the mass reduction of poverty, in all of human history, has been capitalism. This is a system of justice and it is a system roundly despised by professional Democrats, because it treats people according to their production, which varies from man to man, and the value of what is produced, which varies according to the preferences of the buying public. Under such a system, no one is “equal” to anyone else, much to the annoyance of the neo-Socialists.
Edwards is right about there being two Americas. The first is the America that understands that if you want a better life, you work hard for it, and eventually you get it. John Edwards’ parents apparently understood this, and worked their tails off in blue-collar jobs to send him to college. The other America is the one that thinks the reason they don’t have every luxury they might desire is because it is being kept from them. These are the ones who look to someone else to alleviate their needs, because their suffering isn’t their own fault anyway, and must and should be met by government handouts, racial hiring preferences, amnesty for crimes, frivolous lawsuits, and punitive taxes against anyone who “won life’s lottery” and is doing better than they are. |
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