Reply to post: Re: You don't understand how it works

Re: You don't understand how it works

I just want to say... THIS is how the U.S. government truly works. In the third world, people pay bribes. Bribes for everything to get anything done. We don't pay bribes in the U.S. At least, the average citizen does not. The vast majority of graft is exactly the way the previous comment stated. Campaign contributions and a promise of a 250k per year consultant job when its all over. Just play ball. The lobbying game IS the graft in our society, and its graft from the weathiest to the wealthiest. Bernie Sanders has been in public life all his life... yet he's a multimillionaire. The Clinton's were just about broke when they went to the White House, and now they have hundreds of millions. That Clinton charity wasn't the focus of the GOP for nothing. As long as one can get rich (million$ and million$) serving in public office in the U.S. .. through shady book deals, though shady stock deals, though shady deals of ALL types that LOOK on the surface as if they are legit, then the graft in the U.S. system just keeps pouring in.