Uncle Sam Get's Rich off the Nonchalant

Raj Rajaratman -
11 years in Prison for Insider Trading
(worldsetrends.blogspot.com)

US Congress - Infinite years
 of Re-election regardless of Insider Trading
(euobserver.com)

Recently, it has been released that over 70 members of the House of Representatives and the Senate - including top members of Congress, like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio - have been profiting handsomely off of insider information. And they've done it all legally!

What's going on is that when takeover bids occur in the United States, they have to send the government certain documents for approval. This is because of governmental anti-trust laws in place to prevent collusion and monopoly within various industries. Members of Congress are privy to this information and, unfortunately, profit from it!

This info was released on CBS’s programme 60 Minutes and has caused a deeply resentful public to become further alienated to their representatives.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57323527/congress-trading-stock-on-inside-information/

(postamericana.word)

If you or me did this, we would be in jail like Raj, but not if we were in the government! Why, because the government writes the laws! If the Congress decides to slip in a law under the people's noses that lets them do inside deals and basically free money, they can! What infuriates me is not so much that Uncle Sam is so unbelievably corrupt - everyone knows that - but that the American people are not more upset by this.

Why aren't the Occupy Wall Street hippies occupying Washington D.C.? Why isn't there a forced government shutdown and massive inquiry into Congress? Why isn't the law changed overnight? Why are do these people have a 15% approval rating but an 80% re-election rate?

(www.rickperry.org) 

Because Americans are stoooopid, politically at least. Regardless of how corrupt the system is, each side will support their respective parties. If you ask an Obama supporter why they voted for him: 'Oh I didn't like Bush's wars.' (Still in 'em, buddy!). Ask a Republican why they don't like Obama: 'Look at all that debt!' (uh... did you see Doubya's debt?!). Because party loyalists defend there respective sides, real solutions are never developed and corruption persists. I hope the next generation is wiser.