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To Live and Take in D.C. (Corruption and Theft in DC)
Washington Post ^
| 25 December 2007
| Richard Cohen
Posted on 12/25/2007 8:30:39 AM PST by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd
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posted on
12/25/2007 8:34:55 AM PST
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
To: shrinkermd
Interesting article for Christmas day. . .
Hope you all have a merry one.
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posted on
12/25/2007 8:36:07 AM PST
by
MSSC6644
(Defeat Satan. Pray the Rosary)
To: MSSC6644
So true —and if there was not “federal oversight” of DC, can you imagine how bad this would be. Marion Berry would be so proud of his legacy....
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posted on
12/25/2007 8:41:16 AM PST
by
duckbutt
( If you let a smile be your umbrella, then most likely your butt will get soaking wet.)
To: shrinkermd
the town practices corruption on a scale that compares to kleptocracies like Nigeria or kingdoms like Saudi Arabia. Gee. I wonder why that would be? / sarc
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posted on
12/25/2007 8:41:52 AM PST
by
sionnsar
(trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
To: shrinkermd
This is one you can't pin on the locals.
After all, it's not their money that's being stolen.
It's ours.
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posted on
12/25/2007 8:44:05 AM PST
by
okie01
(THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
To: duckbutt
This is what they have found, think of what they haven’t found.
This is a city EVERY liberal, socialist, feel good experiment has been tried and failed. After dark it is a very dangerous place...don’t hear much about that do you.
I bet the people involved are all Irish Republicans too.
To: shrinkermd
Affirmative action for those competing with Enron, Frankel, Worldcom, and Keating...
To: shrinkermd
from Wikipedia
Although there is a municipal government and a Mayor, Congress has the supreme authority over the city and district, which results in citizens having less self-governance than residents of the states. The District has a non-voting at-large Congressional representative. In the financial year 2004, federal tax collections were $16.9 billion[4] while federal spending in the District was $37.6 billion.[5]
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posted on
12/25/2007 8:54:46 AM PST
by
digger48
To: duckbutt
it’s also DUE TO Federal Oversight. DC is run like a fiefdom of local politicians, and the Feds, who are hamstrung and oh-so-politically-correct only get involved when the news really gets bad.
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posted on
12/25/2007 9:06:47 AM PST
by
PGR88
To: shrinkermd
The things that happen in Washington for some reason stay in Washington. They get almost no national attention, even though the town practices corruption on a scale that compares to kleptocracies like Nigeria or kingdoms like Saudi Arabia ....... or New Orleans
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posted on
12/25/2007 9:12:34 AM PST
by
umgud
(no more subprime politicians)
To: Rumplemeyer
“This is what they have found, think of what they havent found.”
Took them so long to find it because 95% of their “investivgavite” reporters have been on the bash Bush steamroller for the past 7 years.
To: All
“Not a politician involved.”
I suspect Cohen can say this because the purpose of the article is to focus solely on the fraud committed by those he calls “bureaucrats.” However, were he to construct an article focusing on the fraud and embezzlement committed by the politicians involved in running D.C., the numbers would probably dwarf those in the instant article. And that’s not to mention the money that most likely floats from the D.C. bureaucrats back to the patrons in Congress who throw money their way to begin with, in the manner of all government “programs.”
This sounds like a great dodge, a straw man, to give the democrat overseers of D.C. a pass on corruption. But Granny Nancy has proven otherwise. Sorry, Rich, it don’t float.
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posted on
12/25/2007 9:21:07 AM PST
by
DPMD
To: shrinkermd
"Move over, Illinois. Eat your heart out, Maryland. Doff your cap, New York. Have some respect, New Jersey, or, for that matter, Louisiana, a state long admired for its political corruption." Notice how uber-lib and Republican-hater Dickie Cohen doesn't mention that all those states, like DC, are run by corrupt DEMOCRATS?
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posted on
12/25/2007 9:24:06 AM PST
by
oldbill
To: shrinkermd
The Hildebeast will pardon these burricraps! She will then appoint them to lead the new Health Care, Kinder Care, Medicare and Social Care programs.
"It takes a Pillage!"
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posted on
12/25/2007 9:52:17 AM PST
by
Young Werther
(Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
To: shrinkermd
Well, looks look at this. If something similar had happened in a privately run business, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act would hold the CEOs of that business responsible.
Obviously what we need is a Sarbanes-Oxley Act for Government Bureaucracies.
HA!
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posted on
12/25/2007 10:02:59 AM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(Could pacifists exist if there weren't people brave enough to go to war for their right to exist?)
To: shrinkermd
Nothing ever changes. I've been reading about DC corruption since I was a kid back in the '70s. The reason it receives no airplay beyond the Post is 1a.) the criminals are mostly black, 1b.) the criminals are all democrats.
If people ever needed a reason to never vote for democrats, they could use DC Home-Rule as a lesson plan.
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posted on
12/25/2007 10:11:40 AM PST
by
rabidralph
(Go, 'Skins--Beat the 'Boys!)
To: rabidralph
“In the financial year 2004, federal tax collections were $16.9 billion while federal spending in the District was $37.6 billion.”
Yea, and the city has “Taxation without Representation” on their license plates.
Every-time I see one, I think— Thank God for small favors.
Too bad the Feds don’t start spending a couple of billion a year to condemn houses in the district and return it to its natural habitat— A Swamp :-)
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posted on
12/25/2007 1:13:35 PM PST
by
a02001
(Help the third world poor one person at a time- www.kiva.org)
To: digger48
Wash D.C. city government is an accurate reflection of the quality of the Federal Govt’s ability to govern directly.
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posted on
12/25/2007 2:45:27 PM PST
by
OldArmy52
(Bush's Legacy: 100 million new Dem voters in next 20 yrs via the 2007 Amnesty Act.)
To: Western Phil
Sad but true, also remember the folks in D.C. would be fine if the just had mo money.
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