How is this not illegal?.....................
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From what I have heard, this is done ALL THE TIME.
It’s basically standard practice for family members of career politicians to either be involved their own non-profits or other NGO, or to have one formed basically for them so that they draw income from it, or work as a ‘consultant’, or get into the boardrooms of all kinds of private sector institutions and rake it in.
It’s not just family members. It used to be laughable how often DC politicians ended up getting cushy jobs with Wall Street entities after they retired. These days, it’s more like silicon valley and other entities like the green energy sector, with corporations popping up to get people rich, and then go bankrupt after taking (b)millions from the government.
The government doesn’t work for you!
The private sector exists to serve and bolster the government.
But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got.
Because the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners.
They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.
They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right.
They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting f____d by a system that threw them overboard 30 f___ing years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly s___tier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, ‘cause they own this f___ing place. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.
-George Carlin