The Scum Bags of Washington: Why so many politicians become “rich” in office

I am not a fan of Elizabeth Warren, and I fully support profitable endeavors, but I do not like it when politicians rally against the evils of Wall Street while they take bribes on K-Street. In my opinion the K-Street bribes are a far greater problem.  But I will give credit where credit is due, Warren asked recently the hard question as to why there has not been justice done on behalf of government when crimes are known to be openly committed, particularly in the financial sector.  When people are openly robbed by greedy crony capitalism, who is looking out for the victims?  Warren at least addressed the issue which Darryl Parks covered during his Saturday show on 700 WLW.  Darryl for a number of years has been asking how can congressman and senators who make a yearly salary of just over six figures become millionaires within a few years of taking office?  The answer is in corruption deals where they all put their hand in the bucket and take out as much money as they want—which is the standard practice in modern politics.    Have a listen, it’s well worth your time:

Warren obviously as a progressive does not like Wall Street or oil companies, so she will have a tendency to put them in the spotlight whenever possible to make her point—but in this case she was right.   I’m sure Warren has nothing to say about the recent Facebook announcement of paying zero taxes on over a billion dollars made during 2012.  She is picking winners and losers in business as notoriously as any politician, so she is no saint by any measure.  But as a new senator she knows that there are crooked deals, and she made a point to expose one in her opening days of office—which as Darryl pointed out, Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid will surely quickly get under control.  The other senators on Capitol Hill will not let Warren expose their easy cash gravy trains for long, so enjoy the bursts of honesty while it lasts.

If anyone thinks that Jessie Jackson Jr. is alone in his fall from grace, guess again.  Jackson is only the latest to get caught dipping is hand into campaign donations to buy Rolex watches and other tid-bits of pleasure while working in government.  Politicians who would otherwise be unsuccessful in business find they can become respected in public office, but they lack the mental aptitude to resist temptation making them for the most part scandalous bands of thieves always looking to partner up with a financial pirate or public con artist.  The Jackson case is fresh from the press and shows to what extent the trouble in government runs.  I would say that Jessie Jackson’s tendency to throw his wife under the bus in his plea deal to get reduced jail time says everything about the quality of person Jackson is and all politicians in general.  Read more about his case at the link below:

http://sandrarose.com/2013/02/jesse-jackson-jr-s-plea-deal-incriminates-his-wife/

The trouble with politicians is that they represent the low quality constituents that America has become.  Just the other day as I was listening to Bill Cunningham on the radio, he was rather animated over John Boehner’s long time position against earmarks in congressional bills.  Cunningham on the air stated that his golf buddy John should drop a few billion dollars worth of earmarks into some bill to pay for the new bridge that needs to replace the Brent Spence connecting I-75 in Cincinnati and Covington, Kentucky.  “Nobody would notice,” Cunningham said.  “Everyone else does it, so why doesn’t Boehner?”  That statement ladies and gentlemen is why we have so many scum bags in politics.  The more money that is thrown into the public treasury, there are far too many hands who wish to take it and use it for some pet project to satisfy the whims of any of the multiple lobbyists on K-Street.  Wall Street to hedge their bets and keep government looters out of their pockets is happy to include politicians in their scams to keep the law off their back.  Politicians like Jackson can’t resist the call of easy money, so they start taking it and buy themselves expensive watches, and real estate investments off money that isn’t technically theirs.  Boehner is a Washington insider who considers himself an honest politician compared to the rest because he has a long-term policy against putting earmarks in congressional bills, but at the same time his golf buddies who claim to be conservative hawks want him to take money out of the treasury to pay for pet projects in the Speaker’s district—which is just as corrupt as when some politician on the other side of the country does it.

The trouble is in the lack of personal responsibility, the disconnect between the value of money and the value of the people stealing it.  When people of little personal value have their hands on money of great value, the attraction is unfathomable.  When Jessie Jackson Jr. took money to buy lavish gifts for himself, he did it to fill a void in himself that lacks personal character.  When Bill Cunningham urges John Boehner to install earmarks in some meaningless congressional bill to raise the billions of dollars for a new bridge, he is making such statements from a lack of personal value.  The money is there to be taken, so somebody should take it and use it on something needed.  When Elizabeth Warren asks why there is a cozy relationship between Wall Street and politicians on Capitol Hill, she is really positioning herself for a candidacy in 2016 for President.  She doesn’t care about the corruption really, but rather sticking to the progressive party talking points that wants to destroy Wall Street while making waves that place her on the national scene.  Politics is all screwed up and is run by thieves and con artists because the values of our society are so bad that nobody sees such things as wrong any more.  Nobody wishes to uphold a moral order, so there is no consequence for actions.  That is unless, as in the case of Jessie Jackson Jr., he understates his income on his tax returns.  Then, justice is swift and true. Government must have its money to pay for all the bandits that hold office there, and wish to make sweet-heart deals with scum bags on K-Street.  When taxes aren’t paid, even Al Capone was sent to jail—because government is not about caring for people in a republic.  It’s about making politicians rich off the backs of extortion and shell games of injustice that makes Las Vegas look like a church on a Sunday morning.

Rich Hoffman

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