You have to be joking.
What the hell has SHE Done to deserve such fees?
You have to be joking.
What the hell has SHE Done to deserve such fees?
Culture of Entitlement
Makes you cringe
Ummm, isn't this how republicans like it? A free market where people get to decide how much they want to pay someone?
This has nothing to do with what she has done to 'deserve' such speaker fees, or whether she has some notion of being entitled to such fees. She will be entitled to or deserve $75k for a speech when someone decides to pay her the $$. It's a simple market. I am surprised to read anyone on here criticizing such things -- this forum seems pretty consistent in being all for free market, make as much $$ as you can. This one is straightforward: You pay the fee, the person shows up and makes a speech. If you think the fee is too much, you don't make the contract for the speech.
As for me, I would not tune in to hear her thoughts, and certainly would not pay for the opportunity. But I am not in her, or her agent's, target market.
There are a lot of Republican fools who make more than that. I was not pleased when I learned how much my college was paying some of its speakers. I would have preferred lower tuition. It wasn't up to me.
There Are A Lot wrote:
There are a lot of Republican fools who make more than that. I was not pleased when I learned how much my college was paying some of its speakers. I would have preferred lower tuition. It wasn't up to me.
And exactly what does Chelsea have to offer ANYONE for a 75k speech?
This entire Clinton Foundation thing is the most explicitly vulgar shakedown scheme in the history of politics. It is pay-for-play no matter how much you try to defend those leeches.
Yeah... Jenna Bush only charges $29k to talk at you.
http://speakerpedia.com/speakers/jenna-bush-hager
...and Barbara Bush, the daughter, only charges $25k.
http://speakerpedia.com/speakers/jenna-bush-hager
... and poor Jeb Bush can be had for less than $65k.
She wouldn't be charging that much if she couldn't get any speaking engagements. How is charging a market price for a service "entitlement"? You idiots are the same conservatives praising the free market, and yet here's a perfect example of a market price and you lambaste her for it.
The story says Chelsea makes "as much as $75,000" per speech. Which means that she does not always make that much.
"the majority of Chelsea’s speeches are unpaid."
Dear lord it's like celebration Election Day 2008 all over again seeing you people get all riled up over stuff like this!
Chelsea Clinton is saving the world by informing people about the importance of education, an issue that nobody else in the world has ever brought up before.
A better question is. what does she have to say that anyone would be dumb enough to pay $75,000 to hear?
"Culture of Entitlement. Makes you cringe"
no, just makes liberals cringe. red states are the biggest takers of federal handouts. red states with mostly / all white people too.... not just the red states with black people.
get it together, conservative losers, and get a job. empower yourself to.. well, do something!
Hello wrote:
A better question is. what does she have to say that anyone would be dumb enough to pay $75,000 to hear?
An even better question is why are the daughters of G Bush paid so much to speak? Chelsea is only one person. The Bush managed to get two unimportant members of their family juicy speaking fees.
nauseated voter wrote:
You have to be joking.
What the hell has SHE Done to deserve such fees?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/us/politics/chelsea-clinton-follows-parents-lead-as-a-paid-speaker.html?_r=0
Obviously she knows 2x as much as Bristol Palin (was only getting 30k to tell you that abstinence isn't 100% effective. And don't date guys who wear trucker hats;))
You can ask why anyone pays to hear any of these people (and no they are not that exciting and your are not going to learn some earth shattering secrets). Only person I can see spending 15k on to hear speak is Kate Upton.....
Am I the only here to who actually LOSES money by making speeches on Letsrun?
Maybe you think the government should regulate her speaker fees.
gonzod wrote:
"Culture of Entitlement. Makes you cringe"
no, just makes liberals cringe. red states are the biggest takers of federal handouts. red states with mostly / all white people too.... not just the red states with black people.
get it together, conservative losers, and get a job. empower yourself to.. well, do something!
My politically left-of-center friend says the smart thing to do now is to have Conservatives or Republicans as state reps (because they won't spend as much as Liberals or Democrats) and to have Liberals or Democrats as Federal reps (because they'll grab more money from other states).