This is nothing. The entire congress is on the take for the Cap and Tax deal too.
Too bad they won’t get Martha Stewarted....you know what I mean. ; )
I don’t think any politicians were hurt or are being hurt by “the worst economic ‘crisis’ since the Great Depression.” Afterall, those bass turds are the ones who caused it!
Anyone that pays honest attention knows these pols are looting.
The very fact that such an oligarchic-sounding phrase barely raises an eyebrow with most "sheeple" is part of the problem. It's antithetic to a free-market system.
Names mentioned here:
Florida Republican Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite (who has since left the committee to join the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee)
Democrat Rep. Charlie Wilson from the eastern Ohio town of Bridgeport, OH
Democrat party Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, a New York Democrat
Democrat Rep. Jackie Speier of California (the transaction should have been listed as her husband’s)
West Virginia’s Shelley Moore Capito (republican? Don’t know)
Also mentioned in the article: A free private Web site called LegiStorm...
Don’t care to investigate the names not mentioned, all 535 + executive.
For anybody else, this would be insider trading. For our lords and masters, it’s just one of the perks.
Response: Of course they did. Made a tidy profit too!
Some won, some lost. Just shows that even these insiders, who we pay to know what they’re doing, were clueless as to what the grand scheme of things held in store for them and us.