Ladies and gentlemen of the Pennsyltucky General Assembly: What are the bids for this fine Senate seat? The energy interests open the bidding at $1 billion,Big Pharma bids $2.5 billion! Do I hear $3 billion? The Wall Street Money Mongers bid a breathtaking $10 billion! Do I hear $11 billion? Going once. Going twice. Gone to Dudley Do Right, former Gubnor of Taxachusetts for only $10 billion!!! Ladies and gentlemen: Line up at the Majority Leader's desk for your respective shares of the cash! Next up: An Act Totally Exempting Investment Income from Any Taxation Whatsoever and Shifting the Burden to the Working Saps! I did LOL at that. Scared the catz and everything.
That was a fine piece of work, and too close to reality.
Someone should do a long winded riff on 'Government to the highest bidder'.
I wonder if Plutarch had anything to say on that subject.....
/johnny