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To: DJ Frisat

...and Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress who constantly take advantage of insider trading and become multi-millionaires in a matter of years on a $300k salary. Stealing millions from the public is about as “do anything I want” as it gets.


19 posted on 12/30/2011 2:14:33 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Nancy Pelosi - The #1 reason why we need a Constitutional amendment for Congressional drug testing.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

What $300K salary? Rank and file representatives and senators get $174,000 per year, the Speaker, 223,500, the Senate Majority and Minority leaders, $193,400, each.


30 posted on 12/30/2011 4:10:56 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
"Stealing millions from the public is about as “do anything I want” as it gets."

Grant you that, but it's mostly implicit and done on the sly. They don't put their mugs on the nightly news and say, 'I won. I don't believe in this law, so my Justice Department isn't going to enforce it', or 'I have directed so-and-so to do such-and-such' despite the fact that there's no Constitutional authority to take that action.

The President doesn't make laws, the legislature does. At least, that's how the story goes...

51 posted on 12/30/2011 5:31:58 AM PST by DJ Frisat
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