[Moneyguy1]

Just a few observations from someone with enough scars from the public sector.........

1. The guy with the most popular votes did not win one recent political election

2. If you have been deprived somehow of true representation, how would you know? It is not like there is any way to rewind the tape and view another possible scenario

3. The higher you go re: government, the more remote and disconnected the elected officials become. The most responsive are those at the local level. And, given more and more unfunded mandates, the least likely to be able to help you.

4. The difference between most corporate and many individual political contributions and the true definition of bribe is semantics, plain and simple. Kind of like the difference between patriot and revolutionary. Point of view.

5. Most elected officials at the federal level are lawyers or at least law school graduates. Hence, the propensity to parse ideas and develop detailed differentiations making a contribution legal and a bribe illegal when, as stated above, the potential result of both can be identical.

I worked with elected oficials on all levels in my former career. I know of what I speak.

Anyone watch the news tonight how Tom Daschell is raising contributions? Interesting procedure involving the presentation of a plaque and a membership in some bogus committee for a sizable contribution, the need for the latter not divulged until the recipient returns a phone call. The written material does not mention the contribution.

Oxymoron: Honest Politician