Hey Republicans - where are the spending cuts?

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> recipe for payola

They arrive in DC "AVERAGE", and many of them leave extraordinary "WEALTHY".

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I agree. I don't think any politician goes to DC thinking he's going to be crooked. I think he/she soon finds that the old boy network stymies any honest attempt to accomplish anything. Add in lobbyists and you've got a recipe for payola.

It has to do with extraordinary rules afforded to representatives not available to the general public. Trading on inside info. Knowing about policy coming down the pike like: We'll be excluding BP from drilling Jan 1 2012 in US territory. Don't you think BP stock will take a hit after Congress places the limit. Meaning Mr. Congressperson sells their BP before Jan 1.

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Where did you get those ideas?

Well, if you are going to run government like a business, one needs to look at cost and profit and to a lesser degree beenfit to the market you are doing business in, to posibly protect profit.

Airdvr, nice remark about not for profit corporations (or nonprofit organizations), but I doubt that those who claim a country should be run as a business had nonprofits in mind.

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Some movement:

www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2012/12/17/boehner-agrees-to-a-millionaire-tax-and-put-us-closer-to-a-fiscal-cliff-deal/

Poor Grover!

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