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Congress has shown little interest in tightening these requirements, in part because lawmakers don’t want to close off a lucrative career in lobbying after they leave office. More than 400 former lawmakers have become lobbyists or consultants in the last decade.
Eric Lichtblau reported in The Times on Sunday that former Representative William Delahunt, a liberal Democrat from Massachusetts, is making $15,000 a month lobbying for a wind energy project for which he personally earmarked $1.7 million while in Congress. Experts said they had never heard of a lawmaker benefiting so directly from one of his own earmarks. The practice of earmarking has largely been curbed, but the abuses of lobbying will continue to spread until Congress finally decides to act"
I read this in the New York Times yesterday. So let me get this straight----I pay my tax money and these bozos play with my money while they are in Congress. Then they leave office with the hope and dream of continuing to receive my tax money in the form of fees for giving advice to the new legislators spending my tax dollars, who also have the hope one day of sucking fees from my tax money by giving advice to the next group of bozos in Congress who follow them. This is an ‘industry’ that works at perpetuating its own existence using our tax dollars. If they were terribly efficient and very productive, and truly governed with the country’s interests at heart, do you think we’d be in the position we are now? This is corruption in it’s most pure form. Election day is a chance for the average tax payer to take back control of our American Destiny. Select wisely…..
