Ain't it funny how that works? (Answer: Not really.)
A story appeared in the Portland Press Herald a month of so ago, page 4A. It
summed up the problem in a few simple paragraphs by informing that despite most
of us being bludgeoned by the recession/depression, the income of all members
of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate (also known as the Hundred
Little Presidents), rose by an average of 9 percent last year. Regardless of
party affiliation.
Thus the dirty little secret of politics: you win office, you prosper. You can
do it legally because being elected to Congress, for example, means the ready
availability of all sorts of financial opportunities: low interest loans, board
memberships, stock tips, etc. Well, the stock tips might be a little on the
shady side, but if they came through a "legitimate" broker (is there such?),
then plausible deniability is firmly in place.
The sons of bitches have us at one another's throats over health care and
school vouchers, etc., while they are padding their own pockets. Some of them
actually don't know that's what they're doing, but the quickest way to see the
truth is to try actual reform of the two-party system. Talk about
bi-partisanship taking the lead! Phew!
AAARRRGGGGGGGGG!
--Bob
On Feb 2, 2011, at 7:11 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
> She now has a high post at the UN,
> set up when it was clear she would lose the last election.
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