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Too Big to Nail: The Biggest Scandals...
Breitbart ^ | 02/02/2013 | Virgil

Posted on 02/04/2013 3:17:30 PM PST by a5478

In other words, inside the Beltway, if the dollar numbers associated with shenanigans are big enough, they don’t call it a “crime,” they simply call it “policy.” That is, past a certain point, the money amounts are so huge that the whole system is implicated in the corruption. And nobody in DC wants to see that, lest the taxpayers out in flyover country start to wonder if there’s something systemically wrong with Washington. And so, through the power of spin, and with the complicity of the MSM, massively awful actions--the bank bailouts being the most spectacular example--are declared to be something much different; they are categorized, instead, as honest actions that some folks might have a problem with. So the Powertown thinking goes: Let’s chase after the little guys, because the big guys are, shall we say, too big to nail. As the Czech peasants of yore used to say, “The big thieves hang the small thieves.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bailouts; corruption; menendez; washington
This article exposes the real issue at the center of federal power. Read the article carefully. Everyone, including AP, Politico, Washington reporters are in on the switch. Use this to see where you want your political donation or letter to go. Menendez is small-fry.
1 posted on 02/04/2013 3:17:37 PM PST by a5478
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“Show me a politician who is poor, and I’ll show you a poor politician.” Unknown Mexican politician.

“Steal a little money and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king.” Bob Dylan

To extend Willie Sutton’s remarks about why he robbed banks, crooks go into politics “because that’s where the money is.”


2 posted on 02/04/2013 4:27:41 PM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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lest the taxpayers out in flyover country start to wonder if there’s something systemically wrong with Washington.

Wonder? The only thing I am wondering is what can be done about the Mafia in Congress.

3 posted on 02/04/2013 5:32:43 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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The article also details the government-insurance company partnership in Obamacare. The insurance companies benefiti from a government that forces consumers to purchase a product.


4 posted on 02/04/2013 7:44:51 PM PST by a5478 (a5478)
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The article also details the government-insurance company partnership in Obamacare. The insurance companies benefit from a government that forces consumers to purchase a product.


5 posted on 02/04/2013 7:45:01 PM PST by a5478 (a5478)
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