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It is a small club and you ain’t in it.
1 posted on 10/11/2022 8:41:55 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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Whenever the absence of corruption is found, THAT is newsworthy. Our government may not be salvageable.


2 posted on 10/11/2022 8:46:50 AM PDT by Spok (Homelessness will not be solved by incentivizing it; it must be made harder, not easier.)
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Isn’t that trading stocks on insider information? Which happens to be illegal? Anyone ask Martha Stewart?


3 posted on 10/11/2022 8:47:25 AM PDT by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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The article is written in the spirit of “too big a problem to care” thesis.


4 posted on 10/11/2022 8:49:19 AM PDT by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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Get rich quick with this one trick.


5 posted on 10/11/2022 8:53:35 AM PDT by robel
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This is a policy that needs to be addressed and enforced. I work for an agency that has hired a few seasoned employees who worked for the contractor. Yes, managers to took a Govt Job.

Part of their retirement package was the contractor’s 401K program and stock purchase program. They do not purchase shares after they started with the agency; but we cannot force them to liquidate their retirement they started before beginning with the Agency

Then there is the consideration of whether they are in a position to influence (either positively or negatively) future Govt contracts. I understand and support the idea of Govt agents or politicians benefiting from stock, via insider trading.

But there are exceptions


6 posted on 10/11/2022 8:59:42 AM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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I’m sorry, but we are going to have to start hanging thieves.

There are too many of them and they aren’t afraid of having to go to prison.


7 posted on 10/11/2022 9:08:19 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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I’ve said for years

Term Limits and Stock Limits on Congressmen are wrong-footed and actually weaken the republic.

Fed.gov is so bloated and massive, its the MIC and bureaucrats who actually make the regulations and receive the bulk of lobbying efforts. They build fiefdoms which are completely unaccountable.

At least you can campaign against a corrupt congressman. You have Zero input over the likes of Fauci or Comey

TERM LIMITS for all Fed.gov bureaucrats and their programs FIRST


8 posted on 10/11/2022 9:09:59 AM PDT by PGR88
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Of course, been happening for a looong time. They legislate for their lobbyists to a profitable outcome for themselves.


9 posted on 10/11/2022 9:31:27 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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Don’t we already know this? Right up there with giving family memebers businesses government contracts


11 posted on 10/11/2022 9:36:28 AM PDT by happilymarriedmom
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Good work if you can get it.


12 posted on 10/11/2022 9:38:31 AM PDT by Pocketdoor
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we slaves who lost 20-50% are getting really pissed..


13 posted on 10/11/2022 9:38:40 AM PDT by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'width=50%>)
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Corruption is endemic to government, at every level. Makes it right? No. I would prefer laws that make it required for all public officials, elected or appointed (including all judges), to put their investments in a blind trust. You are not forced to work in government, but if you choose to any hint of possible conflict of interest should be removed.


15 posted on 10/11/2022 9:39:32 AM PDT by Wuli (ur)
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Didn’t Nan just invest in a drug company that makes radiation fall out treatment?

Didn’t XiDen even MORE recently just make a YUGE purchase of this drug?


16 posted on 10/11/2022 9:40:46 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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They all did their OGE450s and 1)nobody bothered to review them and/or 2) if reviewed, the contents were ignored.


19 posted on 10/11/2022 9:58:38 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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I would love to see how many bureaucrats and politicians bought Pfizer stock in 2019


20 posted on 10/11/2022 11:44:24 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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HHS bought $290 million of radiation medicine from Amgen. Prior to the sale the Pelosi’s purchased 10,000 shares of Amgen.


25 posted on 10/11/2022 2:38:45 PM PDT by 100%FEDUP
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