Basil Venitis points out Amerikleptocrats are out of control! There is a reason the first three letters of Congress, aka Parliament of Whores, spell Con. Like good con artists they continue to promise the impossible and steal Americans' money in the process. Unlike most con artists however, they don't have the good taste to disappear forever when you finally figure out you have been taken.
Democrats have urged Amerikleptocrat Rangel, the most powerful and one of the most senior members of the Parliament of Whores, to settle the charges to avoid an Ethics Committee trial they fear could hurt them in the November congressional elections where they are struggling to retain their majorities.
Rangel said on Tuesday he was not resigning in the face of ethics charges and asked for an expedited resolution of his case before he has to face voters in November elections. The Parliament of Whores Ethics Committee charged Rangel with only 13 violations last month, including omitting information on financial disclosure forms, using a rent-stabilized apartment for his campaign committee, and failure to report income from renting out his villa in the Dominican Republic. Nevermind, that Rangel received myriad kickbacks!
The political class seems to believe they have carte blanche to do as they please. While they have been turning a deaf ear to increasingly vocal expressions of frustration by the American people, if the trend in primary voting continues, our Washington elite may just be jarred awake.
The Declaration of Independence says governments are created to secure our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In other words, to leave us the hell alone. It doesn't take a village, we get along fine when we each strive to achieve our own goals.
Basil Venitis, an Athenian orator, muses that congressmen think Americans sent them to the Parliament of Whores to solve problems when Americans sent them there to see to it that Americans are left alone to solve their own problems. Add to that the fact that many of American problems have been created by the Parliament of Whores, and Americans have the basis for a healthy, peaceful revolution.
Instead of looking at ways to truly empower community, too many organizations that claim to represent Americans continue to place their faith in government, rather than in individuals. This is disheartening. Part of the genius of America is the entrepreneurial and creative spirit, which has opened the door for prosperity and a better quality of life for all Americans. This is precisely what brought many people to America.
New York! How does the song go? "If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere!" If you can make it there, you're some kind of genius. "This is the worst fiscal downturn since the Great Depression," announced the Governor. So what's he doing? He's bringing in the biggest tax hike in New York history. If you can make it there, he can take it there—via state tax, sales tax, municipal tax, a doubled beer tax, a tax on clothing, a tax on cab rides, an "iTunes tax," a tax on haircuts, 137 new tax hikes in all. If you can make it there, you'll certainly have no difficulty making it even in Greece, the most corrupt country on Earth!
To a penniless immigrant called Arnold Schwarzenegger, California was a land of plenty. Now Arnold is an immigrant of plenty in a penniless land: That's not an improvement. One of his predecessors as governor of California, Ronald Reagan, famously said, "We are a nation that has a government, not the other way around." In California, it's now the other way around: California is increasingly a government that has a State.
Venitis points out there is a golden American revolving door for the movement of Amerikleptocrats between roles as legislators and regulators and the industries affected by the legislation and regulation and pullpeddlers. An unhealthy relationship develops between the private sector and American government, based on the granting of reciprocated privileges to the detriment of Americans, leading to American regulatory capture. Democrats failed on their promise to drain the swamp.
Robert Rubin, who helped create the world that led to the 2008 financial meltdown as Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, then took a top position at Citibank and made more than $100 million before it tanked on his watch. In the fall of 2008, when Citigroup was saved from bankruptcy with a taxpayer bailout, Rubin quietly slipped out the back door with his money, resigning from his position at Citigroup. Only recently Rubin made the headlines for offering the least apologetic non-apology imaginable for taking the American people to the cleaners.
Hedge fund manager John Paulson tapped former SEC chairman Harvey Pitt and former commissioner Roel Campos as outside directors at some funds run by his $35 billion firm, to help beef up compliance and governance operations.
Pitt plus former SEC Commissioners Aulana Peters and Joseph Grundfest signed on as advisers to Israel Englander's $7.8 billion Millennium Management hedge fund. Former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt also is doing his fair share of consulting work for private equity firms and hedge funds.
More than 200 former Congressional aides and lawmakers are now working for financial firms as part of a multibillion-dollar effort to shape, and often scale back, federal regulatory power. In other words, the regulators and their aides legislate the rules and then simply step through that infamous revolving door and pick up a handsome check on the other side. There are 20,000 well-employed registered pullpeddlers in Washington today. A $7 billion industry, lobbying is definitely a field to get into, even in bad times, and when the cost of grass-roots efforts and of strategic advisers are all counted, total spending on influencing policy in Washington approaches $15 billion a year.
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