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Originally posted by Penske_Account
the difference is setting someone up with cushy lobbying gigs or speech circuits is different than cooking the books such that one client's commodity trading account takes a hit to funnel cash to another more preferred client's account. Why not make insider trading legal too then? (which, actually, I am in favour of).
Why isn't that no one on the left can ever criticise the Clintons blatantly illegal behaviour? Sad.
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I'm not trying to defend the Clinton's behavior. I'm simply suggesting that the futures account scheme was no different ethically or morally (and I can't comment on legality only because we don't have the facts) than the special allocations Bush I and Jim Baker get from the Carlyle Group or the special allocations Bush II got from the Rangers limited partnership.
In each case the same thing happens: the favored party gets a distribution of cash, and someone looking to buy influence takes the economic hit.
Either way, gov't is for sale on both sides of the aisle and it's only the public that gets fucked.
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