This article seems to be a bit of grandstanding.
Or is it? Isn't this just business-as-usual? I think this story really confirms a distrust in the American form of government - but I'm not sure. This seems to be an explanation of these people have been given large amounts of influence over the purse strings of the American treasury, such that they can affect their own financial fortunes.
OR Is it an example of a member of the governing class being given a chance to be self-invested? The fact that Inouye only has around $700 grand in reported assets at this point in his career is at least somewhat encouraging to me - or maybe not. He could easily be hiding five times that.
Fuck. Transparancy is such a fucking myth. This whole shit show is smoke and mirrors, all aimed at you getting yours and preventing others from getting theirs.
This is some depressing shit.
― Two Will Get You Three (B.L.A.M.), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 06:04 (fifteen years ago) link
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