GRAFT & CORRUPTION
The possibilities are endless with this much control over MONEY!
Do you remember how Hank Paulson left GS to become treasury secretary?
That worked out well for him and GS, didn't it?
Especially when the financial crisis hit and GS was able destroy it's competition while Paulson was given billions to secretly do with as he pleased. We will never know what happened to that money.
Now it's the administration's David Axelrod who left his lobbying firm AKP&D to push healthcare.
AKP&D is handling the public relations campaign for a coalition of groups that support health insurance reform. Part of this coalition is PhRMA.
The money paid by PhRMA helps to pay the salary of David Axelrod's son, who remains at the firm. That money also supports Axelrod's own 2 million dollar payout from the firm.
No wonder Axelrod set up a snitch website right in the White House! LINK
Imagine a politician who's wife/husband/son/daughter is a lobbyist for some medical supplier seeking a government contract.
Their product may be inferior and overpriced, but with the right "contacts" they might get the lucrative government contracts.
This will be better than the pentagon's $434 hammer and a $600 toilet seat cover and the half-billion-dollar travel booking system.
All this for a program that NO POLITICIAN will want or be on.
They get to keep their privately run health care, while selling us $1,000 bandaids.
Line up sheeple. It's time to be skinned. Again.
But it's your "right."
Edited by Rogerdodger, 23 August 2009 - 09:48 AM.