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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Well look at Congress, insider trading was actually LEGAL for them until a couple years ago.

Congress did enact a law in 2012 making insider trading illegal for themselves but here is the latest news:

Repeal of insider trading ban frees top officials to line their pockets again

April 24, 2013

"Congress passed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act in 2012 in response to the public outcry over members' self-serving insider trading scandal last year. As with most laws, what is a crime for citizens was not illegal or unethical for members of Congress and their staffs. The STOCK Act addressed this loophole by requiring lawmakers and government officials to post their financial transactions online.

It was a fleeting moment of transparency and accountability. Like a cowardly thief in the night, members of Congress quietly colluded to repeal the reporting requirements of the STOCK Act this year by unanimous consent: The shameful ordeal took all of 10 seconds in the Senate and 14 seconds in the House.

See: http://tinyurl.com/cjjttbo


19 posted on 05/20/2013 7:49:45 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Obama-Ville - Land of The Freebies, Home of the Enslaved)
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To: Iron Munro

UNreal!! Holy crap does that get my blood boiling! And they want to take our guns? F THEM! This media can absolutely kiss my ASS because NONE of them report this crap, you actually have to seek it out on the web, the MSM completely ignores it, unreal. We live under a monarchy, we really do with all these slime bag monarchs doing whatever the hell they please. Enriching themselves tens of millions of times over by STEALING from the public because that is EXACTLY what insider trading is! It is stealing! There is absolutely NO difference between members of Congress and your local sanitation dept. that picks up garbage. Both are financed by taxes, they SERVE the public yet this media, these utter subhuman pieces of pig slop running the media constantly cover for these sc*mbags in Congress.


25 posted on 05/20/2013 8:53:30 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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