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Originally Posted by kane
I had read that Clinton was deeply in debt when he left the white house because he hand't made a ton of money before or during his time in and he spent so much on lawyers it drained him dry. Within 12 months of leaving the white house he had earned about $40 million dollars. Within a few months of leaving the white house he and Hillary bought a multi-million dollar home in New York.
Politics is the only job where people will give you millions in order to help you get the job, then when you are done with it they give you millions more to come work for them using your influence on others. It is flat out insane and no wonder our system is broken.
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There was a bill floated in Congress not long ago which would stop any member of Congress from being able to get hired as a lobbyist or for govt contractors for something like 3 years after their last term ended. It obviously didn't pass.. Anyway it's pretty obvious the entire system is corrupt when these guys spend millions to get a job that pays a few hundred thousand.