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Originally Posted by Robbie
I think of it like this...
If you like strippers, you go to the strip club.
If you are a entertaining con man you might go to work at a place where you pay no taxes and there is very little legal or govt. oversight: You would become a preacher.
If you are greedy and crave power...there is no place better than Washington, DC
They have their hands on more money than any big company anywhere in the world. They answer to pretty much nobody. They keep their "job" for life. They get free health care, They call all the shots.
So yeah, con men and thieves just naturally migrate there. It's the "Super Bowl" of stealing.
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Great analogies.
When did politicians become celebrities? There used to be a time that the President was the only one you ever really saw. Now they are all on TV.
We have nine supreme court justices... They are their own entire wing of government and need no security in their private lives because nobody knows who they are.
In every other branch it seems like everybody thinks they need a security detail.