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To: yesthatjallen
As Congress considers a bipartisan bill banning members and their families from trading stock while in office,

While it is indeed scandalous that people like Nancy Pelosi or Liz Cheney can enter office with nothing, and leave with $$ tens or $$ hundreds of millions, I don't know if this is the only way to control grifting, or even if its the major source.

It will just be a limitation that discourages smart people from running, will attract low IQ morons and controlled ideologues, and will again degrade the power of Congress in favor of the permanent bureaucracy and deep-state

Does such a bill say ANYTHING about permanent Fed.gov employees like Fauci, Wallensky or Comey, who also become rich while climbing the DC greasy pole?

4 posted on 04/24/2023 10:23:07 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

“While it is indeed scandalous that people like Nancy Pelosi or Liz Cheney can enter office with nothing, and leave with $$ tens or $$ hundreds of millions, I don’t know if this is the only way to control grifting, or even if its the major source.”

Given her father’s position at Halliburton, I suspect that Liz Cheney entered office with a lot more than nothing.


12 posted on 04/24/2023 11:57:28 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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