Red Hats, you need to speak up on this

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1972 Grad said:
Good question, but they write the laws.
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Never was there a better recipe for corruption. No wonder they leave as multimillionaires. It would be interesting to track the wealth growth of our millennial congresspeople (jihad squad) and compare it to that of their constituents. I am guessing it will be comparable to that of the CEOs that they so publicly vilify versus the average worker bee they so exploit.
 
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McDad said:
What happens to a constituent who is caught insider trading?
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Senator Burr has just requested that the Senate Ethics Committee open an investigation into his stock selling. Doesn't sound to me like he is trying to hide anything.
 
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hog88 said:
Nope, I can't either. Probably won't see any of those mentioned today investigated or prosecuted.
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So, it's illegal to profit but it happens everyday and neither of us can remember the last time a politician was prosecuted for violating the law and we don't expect the current three to face prosecution, either. That about right?
 
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1972 Grad said:
Senator Burr has just requested that the Senate Ethics Committee open an investigation into his stock selling. Doesn't sound to me like he is trying to hide anything.
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You're free to come to your conclusions. But calling for it does nothing for me. I can't remember the last time one was prosecuted for same. He knows full well he will likely be censured if he acted inappropriately. Big deal.

Politicians should be the only class of Americans who are guilty until proven innocent.
 
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I hate them. I hate them all. I am racist towards politicians. There needs to be a word which describes that failing.

Blight supremacist???

Neo PolitiNazi, maybe.
 
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McDad said:
So, it's illegal to profit but it happens everyday and neither of us can remember the last time a politician was prosecuted for violating the law and we don't expect the current three to face prosecution, either. That about right?
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That's about right. You're smart enough to know there are those who are above the law governing us peasants.
 
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McDad said:
You're free to come to your conclusions. But calling for it does nothing for me. I can't remember the last time one was prosecuted for same. He knows full well he will likely be censured if he acted inappropriately. Big deal.

Politicians should be the only class of Americans who are guilty until proven innocent.
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I'm not willing to rush to judgement about him selling. He isn't the only person in the world that sold stocks during that time period. Why did others sell? I'm talking about regular folks, not politicians.
 
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hog88 said:
That's about right. You're smart enough to know there are those who are above the law governing us peasants.
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I rarely get this worked up, anymore. It's the most ridiculous thing for this to be stuck in my craw. It doesn't affect me one way or the other if they inside trade.
It just doesn't sit well with me when there are one set of laws for "them" and another set for "us". I am too honest. I should have been more like them and thumbed my nose at the law for wealth.
I could have been a great drug smuggler! I'm smart. Careful. I could have made a fortune.
 
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1972 Grad said:
I'm not willing to rush to judgement about him selling. He isn't the only person in the world that sold stocks during that time period. Why did others sell? I'm talking about regular folks, not politicians.
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I probably would give benefit of the doubt to if there wasn't a pattern of behavior of politicians from both parties doing it.
 
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1972 Grad said:
I'm not willing to rush to judgement about him selling. He isn't the only person in the world that sold stocks during that time period. Why did others sell? I'm talking about regular folks, not politicians.
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Most, if not all politicians, have their portfolios managed by professionals so they don't have to do the dirty work themselves. All that needs to happen is some aide calls some douche nozzle in the vast black hole of some investment company with a suggestion and bam, money is made. They will never be charged with insider knowledge.
Look at Tennessee's career public servants like Lamar Alexander and Al Gore. Neither of them worked in the private sector unless it was in between government jobs and they are both filthy rich. They didn't get that way because they were great day traders that spent the days governing and the nights researching companies.
 
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McDad said:
I probably would give benefit of the doubt to if there wasn't a pattern of behavior of politicians from both parties doing it.
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He may or may not be guilty, but I'm not convicting someone based on what we know so far. In my mind, he is innocent until proven guilty. I mean what if he just decided it was time to get out. I came real close to doing the same thing at about the same time, due to the possibility of Bernie or one of the socialists getting elected. I wish I would have followed my gut feeling. Maybe he thought the same. Who knows?
 
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1972 Grad said:
He may or may not be guilty, but I'm not convicting someone based on what we know so far. In my mind, he is innocent until proven guilty. I mean what if he just decided it was time to get out. I came real close to doing the same thing at about the same time, due to the possibility of Bernie or one of the socialists getting elected. I wish I would have followed my gut feeling. Maybe he thought the same. Who knows?
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Sure. But if you and 2 of your colleagues all decided the same course of action after a private meeting, that would be an incredible coincidence.

He's guilty as hell.
 
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1972 Grad said:
He may or may not be guilty, but I'm not convicting someone based on what we know so far. In my mind, he is innocent until proven guilty. I mean what if he just decided it was time to get out. I came real close to doing the same thing at about the same time, due to the possibility of Bernie or one of the socialists getting elected. I wish I would have followed my gut feeling. Maybe he thought the same. Who knows?
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I'll bet you'll find that his money is "managed" for him and he had no knowledge that any trades were happening.
 
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McDad said:
I hate them. I hate them all. I am racist towards politicians. There needs to be a word which describes that failing.

Blight supremacist???

Neo PolitiNazi, maybe.
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Politicist
 
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