How do the Clinton's become rich? Like this.

Via Small Dead Animals, a short list of speaking fees paid to Bill Clinton by the Toronto Dominion Bank.  Read this and be outraged.  Really, if this bank has shareholders, would they not want to know how much their bank is squandering in fees to, for them, foreign politicians?

Would not this kind of easy income plant Billary squarely in the 1%?  Does it really cost this much to bribe prominent politicians not to harm you, or to give you some business advantage?  Disgusting.

You'll need to go to the fully interactive element of this article to confirm, but by my check, the Toronto-Dominion Bank and its affiliates (mostly in eastern North America, the exception being Abu Dhabi), paid Mr. Clinton the following sums for speaking engagements while his wife was Secretary of State of the United States (USD):

2009: $800,000
2010: $350,000
2011: $480,000

Total: $1,630,000 for nine speaking engagements.

TD and its affiliates, apparently, were the only Schedule 1 bank-related financial institutions to pay him anything in the period. (There are lots of other outrages, such as the City of Surrey, BC -- $175,000 to Bill on October 20, 2011, the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, etc., etc., etc.)

And prior to that...

... you may be interested to also know that Bill Clinton was paid the following sums by the TD Bank and/or its affiliates for speaking engagements:

$175,000 -- Montreal QC, November 25, 2008
$175,000 -- Moncton ON, November 25, 2008
$175,000 -- London ON, November 26, 2008

So, Bill was paid $525,000 by the TD Bank and/or its affiliates in a, more or less, 24-hour period. I'm guessing, of course, but I would expect that that would not include, you know, expenses, Secret Service costs, etc., which I'm guessing were reimbursed (as would have been all of the similar expenses in the previous engagements in my previous correspondence) by TD and/or its affiliates.