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Subject: Re: [OM] (OT) (OM) Use of verbs etc
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:25:18 -0500
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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