2023.07.09 19:06
Forget Hunter Biden, what about Jared and Ivanka’s grift?
Jun 29, 2023 Mehdi
If Republicans are truly worried about members of the first family improperly benefitting from their name,
Mehdi says there are two people besides Hunter Biden that they should be looking
at: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
2023.07.09 19:17
2023.07.10 20:09
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/when-congressman-becomes-lobbyist-he-gets-1452-percent-raise-average/
When a Congressman becomes a lobbyist, he gets a 1.452 percent raise on average
Selling out pays. If you’re a corporation or lobbyist, what’s the best way to “buy” a member of Congress? Secretly promise them a million dollars or more in pay if they come to work for you after they leave office. Once a public official makes a deal to go to work for a lobbying firm or corporation after leaving office, he or she becomes loyal to the future employer. And since those deals are done in secret, legislators are largely free to pass laws, special tax cuts, or earmarks that benefit their future employer with little or no accountability to the public. While campaign contributions and super PACS are a big problem, the everyday bribery of the revolving door may be the most pernicious form of corruption today. (See our post on Monday about current members of Congress already negotiating for jobs on K Street.)
*Korean politicians are relatively innocent of what the lobbyists do in America.
I think it is systemically legalized corruption. NRA is a good example. Mass killings
are rampant almost every day, but gun control is far from being done because
NRA buys Senators and representatives through lobbyists. And it is legal in America.
It is another matter that former congressmen get rich by becoming a lobbyist.
Lobbyists make them work for corporations not for the public. It is certainly
corruption but not a crime that supposes to be bribery. What a country!
American corruption goes by "Billions" of dollars,
while Korean corruption lives by a few peanuts.
Among us, Korean Americans, there are a few guys who are madly in love
with fatherly (?) America.
Please listen to this video. You've been cheated by American fraud and misinformation.
We shall live for ourselves now. We have done our job more than what was called for the U.S.
Today, we shall no longer kiss American asses.