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The daughter of former President Bill Clinton and ex-Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, explained in a new interview why she left lucrative professions and opted to work with her family’s philanthropic foundation: “I was curious if I could care about (money) on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t.” she said.

Hillary Clinton insists she isn’t “well-off” and now daughter Chelsea says she couldn’t care less about money.

“I was curious if I could care about (money) on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,” she told UK’s The Telegraph, explaining why she gave up lucrative gigs to join her family’s philanthropic foundation.

Comparing her experience to the average millennial, the 34-year-old former first daughter defended jumping around to different careers - from consulting to a hedge fund to academia to journalism - before finding her true calling working with her parents.

“It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents? I’ve tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents … it’s a funny thing to realize I feel called to this work, both as a daughter and also as someone who believes I have contributions to make,” she continued about her reluctant status as a boomerang kid.

The Clinton name likely opened doors for the political heiress, including an eye-popping $600,000 annual salary for an irregular stint as an NBC special correspondent, but Chelsea insists her work speaks for itself.

“I will just always work harder (than anybody else) and hopefully perform better,” she said.

“And hopefully, over time, I preempt and erase whatever expectations people have of me not having a good work ethic, or not being smart, or not being motivated.”

Clinton wed husband Marc Mezvinsky, a former Goldman Sachs banker who started his own hedge fund, in a lavish 2010 ceremony estimated to have cost $3 million.

Chelsea Clinton, $10M Apartment, $3M Wedding, $600K Job: I Just Don’t Care About Money

 

what's in a name...

Impossible to compare this spoiled brat, Chelsea Clinton, to the other person with the same first name — Chelsea Manning. Manning did an incalculable service to humanity, Chelsea Clinton seems to be a waste of space... Manning ended up in Prison for 15 years for her good deed. Clinton can pick and choose which waste of time she is going to get the cash she "doesn't care about" — possibly because she has plenty of it. UGLY world we live in.

and the NYP continues with a nanny...

 

Hillary Clinton is proposing limiting the cost of child care to 10 percent of family income — but the family of the Democratic presidential candidate used government-paid staffers to help raise their daughter, Chelsea.

A 1981 government audit — assessing when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas — found that the Clintons had hired a nurse at taxpayer expense to care for Chelsea.

The nurse was paid $9,785 — what was then nearly double minimum wage — according to a 1981 article in the Arkansas Gazette.

The nurse was listed on the payroll as a security guard, which Bill Clinton admitted was only because it was the sole empty slot available on the governor’s staff.

The Clintons repeated the trick when they moved into the White House, where nanny Helen Dickey drew a $20,000-a-year salary as a “staff assistant” to care for the first daughter.

Now, as a candidate for president, Hillary Clinton doesn’t mention the government-sponsored nanny.

“I am aware of what’s going on in the lives of Americans. And I bring different experiences, because yes, I’ve been a daughter, a mother, a grandmother. And so child care for me is not some abstract policy issue, I remember when I was a young mother and getting the child care that I needed for my daughter and so I know what the struggles are like on a day-to-day basis,” Clinton said at a January town hall in Rochester, New Hampshire.

 

 

From the New York Post...

 

Gus: Nanny and child care BASED on income? The rich getting better child care from the public purse than the poor? Blimey... It was the same capers that Tony Turdy tried here in Aussieland...