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"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with
power to endanger the public liberty." - - - - John Adams

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Congressional Corruption - Everyone is on the take



"Corruptus in Extremis"
  • We are ruled by a government of whores.
  • Let's boil this down, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans give a shit about the average American.  Washington is one giant pig trough of corruption and everyone is lining their pockets with cold hard cash.


Retroactive Bribery  -  Bribery is simply a matter of timing.  If you take an envelope full of cash for "services rendered" while in office then you go to jail.  But if you take that very same envelope for "services rendered" after you leave office then it is a job related bonus.  Legal bribery.

The nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation found that former congressional staffers who take jobs as lobbyists make considerably more than the average lobbyist with no government attachments, showing the revolving door between Capitol Hill and K Street.

According to the study, both former staffers who list their previous congressional office and Hill alumni who choose not to advertise that information make substantially more than the average contract lobbyist.

Between 1998 and 2012, the median revolving door lobbyist who disclosed his congressional office earned $87,680 more than the median revolver who did not. In 2006, the difference was a little more than $122,000 reports the Daily Caller.

As of 2012, the median salary for a lobbyist who listed their former place of Hill employment is slightly above $300,000 and a former Hill staffer who did not reveal this information takes in around $280,000. Lobbyists with no government experience barely make it past six figures.

Here are the top five congressional offices that brought in the highest annual median salary per lobbyist between 1998 and 2012:

  • Maryland Democratic Rep. Steny Hoyer: - - -  $641,095
  • Tennessee Republican Sen. Bill First: - - - - - - $630,619
  • Montana Democratic Sen. Max Baucus - - - - - $576,275
  • Mississippi Republican Sen. Trent Lott: - - - -  $418,268
  • Louisiana Democratic Sen. John Breaux:  - - -  $415,433

Hoyer was House Democratic leader, Lott and Frist Senate Republican leaders. Baucus chairs the Senate Finance Committee, on which Breaux once served.

Some congressional offices have established larger footprints on K Street than others.

Here are the top five offices with the most former staffers-turned-lobbyists:

Pennsylvania Democratic and Republican Sen. Arlen Specter : 27
Mississippi Republican Sen. Trent Lott: 25
Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy: 21
Tennessee Republican Sen. Bill Frist: 20
Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison: 19


Corporatism Rules America
Wall Street raped the financial system with phony home loans and imploded the economy causing a Depression.  The criminals who did this are then bailed out with taxpayer cash by the politicians who looked the other way rather do proper oversight.  No one on Wall Street went to jail and the "fines" paid by the banks were covered by cash from the Treasury or the Federal Reserve. 
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The political liars and their aids who made it all possible are rewarded with retroactive bribes in the form of high paying jobs as lobbyists or in corporations for services rendered. 



There's no Democrats and Republicans.
"There are no sides. There's no Sunnis and Shiites. There's no Democrats and Republicans. There's only HAVES and HAVE-NOTS. 
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This is a country, where the Secretary of Defense can go on T.V., and tell the American public, oh, that "This is about freedom! It's not about oil!" And nobody questions him, cuz they don't wanna hear the answer, because it's a lie! There are only so many places at the table, Gunnie. Now, are you on the INSIDE, or are you on the OUT?"
Senator Charles F. Meachum
Shooter (2007)
 

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