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Buying a congressional hearing

November 6, 2011 4:02 PM

Congressional hearings are the "grand show of Washington," Jack Abramoff tells Lesley Stahl, explaining how lobbyists use hearings to push their own agenda.?

Jack Abramoff: The lobbyist's playbook
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by mike60min November 10, 2011 1:00 AM EST
I read somewhere that Bribery of Our Congress, both House and Senate started over 25 years ago, when some Southern Congressman was getting hammered by a "person with money" and "Opened the door to Bribery". Who has that kind of money, how about Corporations, Wall Street, Banks, and the wealthy.
What have we evolved into?
Laws that prevent new Unions or organized labor, "Get the government (cops) off our back" that has been "music to Financial Criminals", the 401K failure with huge amounts of money being poured into Wall Street, Coputerized trading schemes that "skims $Billions every day buying and selling millions of shares of stock every minute and nothing being put in place to make it illegal, Flat wages of 30 years, Price Fixing of the Health Care Monopoly, Lotteries, Indian Gaming, Privatized Student loans with Government money and uplift, Underfunded SEC, CFTC, and FBI to catch guys like Maddoff, Incumbant Senators who spend $8 million of Bribery money to defeat opposition who spend $250,000, shifting from a Democratic Republic to a Plutocracy, Poverty and demise of the Middle Class, CEO's and the 1% Exective staff taxed at 15%(paid in stock), Loss of 100,000 defined benefit pensions of the babyboomers who cannot retire even though they contributed earnings that were eventually stolen(Retirement Heist - Schultz), Medical Services Indebtedness Bankruptcies of 900,000 families every year(no other country permits Medical Indebtedness Bankruptcy), FCC rulings allowing consolidation of Media(TV, Radio, Newsprint in the same market) while 90% of the public cried against it, loss of 18,000 investigative reporters, Predatory Banks with deception in lending, Subprimes, derivatives, CDS's and CDO's that are financial weapons of mass destruction and no one in our government to stop them that continues operation, forcing foreclosures and shortsales while making money via Secret Loss share agreement payments from the FDIC via the FED and 13 million kids homeless, one out of five Americans in Poverty, FCC selling Spectrum and selling public lands at $120 an acre, underfunding the agencies that could go after the Ponzi Scheme Maddoffs in the Dodd-Frank Bill presently and a Political Party of NO who votes against anything that will turn our economy around as a strategy to regain power in both houses of Congress and the Presidency along with key chairmanships to make sure the economy is in the toilet when the 2012 election rolls around in 12 months.
Well, to my Party of NO former buddies, don't be so sure your strategy will work. The "kids" in the Occupy Parks have figured you out and they are leading the charge for change.

Thanks to Abramoff for his disclosure but what turned him around? Jail? If that is the case, the 100 Congressmen he mentioned, not by name, need to go to the same jail.

To see who and how much Congress is bribed visit Open Secrets dot org.
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