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Old 01-28-2010, 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by aklim View Post
And before this there was no influence peddling? Really? Special interest groups have been in existence since when again? The last week?


They have always been here. But this court ruling will NOW remove almost all restraints.


Going to make it a LOT more easy, and more obvious.


So tell us please: Is that what you LIKE, to see the USA become even *more* like such places as the Phillipines, Peru and Nigeria?


In Peru for example, about 25 years ago, had a working, viable, Social Security system. The President personally looted it, down to the last centavo, and it collapsed. My then (and now -ex) wife's cousin, who was a nurse, Julia, told me personally, she was a nurse in the country, and lost everything she had put into the fund, as did millions of other Peruvians.

30+ years later, the guy said he was "sorry" and begged forgiveness, when he ran for President again.

They believed his apology and he is NOW the president of Peru.

But he never paid back ANYTHING, of what he stole. Nothing


Look it up, if you don't believe me. His name is Alan Garcia Perez, President of Peru since 2006. He stole the Social Security fund dry when he was president before, 1985 - 1990.

You want this kind of thing to happen * here *?


Th US Supreme Court's decision has now opened the floodgates for naked influence peddling, a close cousin to this kind of thing.


So, are you ok with it?
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