Posted on 05/03/2015 12:44:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Sunday on Fox News Channel’s “MediaBuzz,” “Clinton Cash” author Peter Schweizer said he is motivated by making sure the “wealth accumulation by elected officials” is legitimate.
When asked if he felt the mainstream media was giving him a harder time because he is going after the Clintons?
Schweizer said, “I think there’s a certain element of that, yes. I think part of it is because there have been a lot of scandal books, so-called scandal books in the past. But I also think there’s this sense that they’re looking for political motivation in what I’m doing. And, you know, I think you certainly could look at the motivations behind what people are doing, but you want to look at facts themselves and most reporters have been fair in doing that.”
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So far Hillary has not denied anything in is book. Attacks on Schweizer that I have seen have been personal, not about the content. He certainly is not a tool of the GOP. I heard his next book deals with Jeb Bush.
Ever noticed how so many of them arrive in Washington DC of modest means, and then miraculously throughout the years, they end up becoming very very wealthy?
Well, it’s because they derive power and wealth through their access to our money – to taxpayer dollars.
They use it to bailout their friends on Wall Street and their corporate cronies, and to reward contributors, and to buy votes via earmarks, There is so much waste.
And there is a name for this.
It is called corporate crony capitalism.
SARAH PALIN, Indianola, Iowa - Sept 3, 2011
Most elected Democrats are in politics just to line their pockets and write pork bills, but you’ll never hear a liberal complain. It’s private corporations they have a problem with, who earn their money legitimately.
They make way more through insider information on the stock markets.
Its the ultimate ponzi scheme.
Not just Washington. In the county where I grew up, it was notorious that the sheriff would be elected for four years, then become rich enough to retire to Florida. Illegal gambling and racketeering were rife in the county.
Then he’s going to love Scott Walker who has the lowest net worth of all candidates and who gave back 1/2 of his salary for the first 4 years as County Exeutive.
Most Republicans do the same damn thing.
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Which is why Sarah Palin is far more likely to support his candidacy than Cruz's. Palin epitomizes Peter Schweizer's thought process about corruption in government and the need to end it.
Here’s the rub: we excuse it when they’re on our side, and bemoan it when they’re not. No principles.
It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. - George Carlin
I know he said his next investigation was of Jeb, and while that’s interesting, the Bushes were never poor. A more interesting inquiry would be how Harry Reid progressed from dirt-poor to a multi-millionaire without ever holding a a non-government job.
It’s about time this was brought up. They’re not getting rich just because people just want to give it to them and they’re damn sure not earning it. I think maybe “pandering for profit and influence for “donations” would be the appropriate terminilogy.
They say they want to go to Washington to do well for others but end up doing very well for themselves.
As a starter there should be no retirement for any elected official.
Then there are about one hundred other changes that should be made including drastically limiting the amount of money they (and their PACs) can spend on election campaigns.
When someone spends $50 to $100 million dollars to be elected to a job that pays $174,000 a year you know they aren't doing it for the salary.
The government spends so much watching us, when it is them that should be watched. Not only watched, but financially vetted and watched to see that they don’t exceed their earned financial gains ‘earned’ in office, and nailed if they or theirs live above their declared means. Why not, they do it to us!
Pay Congressmen $1 million salaries, $2 million for Senators, and $5 million for President.
HOORAY Peter Schweizer!
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt…
7. It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game. This is an essential point, and happily is attended with no difficulty. A sufficient number, properly disposed, can alternately legislate and speculate, and speculate and legislate, and buy and sell, and sell and buy, until a due portion of the property of their constituents has passed into their hands to give them an interest against their constituents, and to ensure the part they are to act.
8. (4) A great debt will require great taxes; great taxes, many taxgatherers and other officers; and all officers are auxiliaries of power.
9. The management of a great funded debt and a extensive system of taxes will afford a plea, not to be neglected, for establishment of a great incorporated bank. the use of such a machine is well understood. If the Constitution, according to its fair meaning, should not authorize it, so much the better. Push it through by a forced meaning and you will get in the bargain an admirable precedent for future misconstructions.
10. “Divide and govern”…
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks.
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm
—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
DEFUND/DISMANTLE socialist collectives, foreign and domestic. DEPOPULATE socialists from the body politic.
It’s easy to…
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I’m going to offer a different perspective. You don’t have to use graft or insider information to get rich in politics.
To get elected, you have to be in the know of what is going on in your communities. That makes you an expert at the projects and opportunities that are 3-5 years from reality.
Example. When I unsuccessfully ran for office, I was attending all kinds of meetings and sharing floor time with other projects. I listened to three separate public meetings about a proposed subdivision with new access roads being built 5 years down the road. All sparsely attended meetings. All public information. An investment then would have paid off handsomely now. If you’re just in it for money, who doesn’t want a Wal-mart near land you paid 6-8K/ac a few years before it opened to buy?
Is it cheating to take the time and effort used to be involved and act on the public information as a result to benefit myself? Sure the land prices around these projects start to go up immediately but there’s a significant lag between start to finish and plenty of opportunity to buy low and sell high. That’s just one example.
Multiply that by a hundred times and a hundred opportunities and the opportunity to enrich yourself is there.
Most major investment opportunities require government interaction, be it permits, zoning, infrastructure improvements, etc. These things are all public information. Elected officials more or less have it in their job descriptions to be aware of this information.
I’m not saying it’s right. I’m saying that being privy to every major and minor investment opportunity in your area means you accumulate wealth, or you’re not trying to do so.
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