Aerlinthian
Posts:
66,222
Registered:
May 7, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 65,491
User ID: 94,919
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
Okay, lets hear the excuses against this one because you don't like him or his other positions.
http://youtu.be/CFe7k9_ESI8
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
Manegarm
Title: European Imperialist Good Guy
Posts:
33,712
Registered:
Aug 11, '03
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 32,596
User ID: 829,780
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
Proven racist bunghole is still a proven racist bunghole..
No wonder why you love him, you know with your violent jew hate and all.
-----signature-----
Europa Eternita!
"Damn, Manegarm; you are HAWT!! " - Taolynn
"To the everlasting glory of the infantry, Shines the name Shines the name of Rodger Young"
ALWAYS ANGRY, ALL THE TIME!
Nein mann ich will noch nicht gehen
|
|
Link to this post
|
Thugoneous
Title: Watching Caliente, BRB.
Posts:
6,060
Registered:
Nov 2, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 5,795
User ID: 734,292
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
|
I'm okay with this. But most of these people stand to gain much more than they'd lose in benefits.l not sure how effective it would be.
-----signature-----
Lady, people aren't chocolates. D'you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
|
|
Link to this post
|
Aerlinthian
Posts:
66,222
Registered:
May 7, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 65,491
User ID: 94,919
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
Thugoneous posted:
I'm okay with this. But most of these people stand to gain much more than they'd lose in benefits.
At least it will stop adding insult to injury.
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
Allstarslacker
Posts:
9,760
Registered:
May 23, '06
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 9,653
User ID: 1,140,793
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
He said it was the least they could do.
I agree with him on this issue.
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
Altra_Shadowstalker
Posts:
17,553
Registered:
Jan 17, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 16,076
User ID: 616,837
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
See? He's a much more effective Congressman than Presidential Candidate.
Out of curiosity, why is Ron Paul against lobbyists and congressmen? The only other citizens who get restricted from certain jobs are convicted felons. Shouldn't he be for these guys having the freedom to decide what their next job is? Why punish them for being productive members of society?
-----signature-----
"Goddammit, Swearengen, I don't trust you as far as I could th'ow you, but I enjoy the way you lie."
I don't typo often, but when I do, I blame Swype.
|
|
Link to this post
|
Scarne
Title: Capo di Scientifico
Posts:
27,710
Registered:
Jul 23, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 22,798
User ID: 272,061
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
If the amendment is added, it could be the tipping point that makes a bill that seems to have enough support into one that doesn't pass.
It wouldn't stop people from pulling a Newt and not directly lobby themselves but just work as a consultant to a firm that does lobbying. 
-----signature-----
E Pluribus Unum
|
|
Link to this post
|
Friarspam
Posts:
12,363
Registered:
Jan 23, '07
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 10,619
User ID: 1,200,702
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
Altra_Shadowstalker posted:
See? He's a much more effective Congressman than Presidential Candidate.
Out of curiosity, why is Ron Paul against lobbyists and congressmen? The only other citizens who get restricted from certain jobs are convicted felons. Shouldn't he be for these guys having the freedom to decide what their next job is? Why punish them for being productive members of society?
Title says Rand Paul.
-----signature-----
My folks went on vacation and all I got was this lousy sig.
|
|
Link to this post
|
Altra_Shadowstalker
Posts:
17,553
Registered:
Jan 17, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 16,076
User ID: 616,837
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
Whoops! Thanks, there's not the first time I've mistaken the two names. Good looking out.
My question remains the same, but obviously not the first paragraph.
-----signature-----
"Goddammit, Swearengen, I don't trust you as far as I could th'ow you, but I enjoy the way you lie."
I don't typo often, but when I do, I blame Swype.
|
|
Link to this post
|
ZigmundZag
Title: Grammar Nazi
Posts:
25,948
Registered:
Mar 25, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 22,707
User ID: 661,552
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
|
I doubt it's going to be worth much. Where do you draw the line between lobbying and legitimate "consulting" work? I doubt there's a former senator alive that hasn't worked for a private organization is some capacity.
-----signature-----
"Take the cheese to sickbay!"
|
|
Link to this post
|
B_Shinkicker
Posts:
23,050
Registered:
Feb 24, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 19,740
User ID: 649,600
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
Newt himself is proof that this amendment won't work. Newt wasn't a lobbyist, he was just paid millions of dollars a year for his "advice" and for his Washington insider beltway connections!
-----signature-----
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted
to a profoundly sick society. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
|
|
Link to this post
|
Eager_Igraine
Posts:
20,126
Registered:
Nov 21, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 19,548
User ID: 740,268
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
B_Shinkicker posted:
Newt himself is proof that this amendment won't work. Newt wasn't a lobbyist, he was just paid millions of dollars a year for his "advice" and for his Washington insider beltway connections!
I was thinking. It makes for a nice sound bite, but any way you define lobbyist can easily be circumvented. Newt was a 'historian' I believe.
-----signature-----
I radiate more heat than light.
I know what you're trying to do but you're just sailing another failboat over the falls. - imaloon1
|
|
Link to this post
|
paulg_68
Posts:
30,961
Registered:
Jul 27, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 30,669
User ID: 1,364,918
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
B_Shinkicker posted:
Newt himself is proof that this amendment won't work.
They just need to better define what constitutes a lobbyist. Either that or expand the restriction to include former congressmen participating in lobbying related activities. The whole thing is a good idea, but you're right, it's not there yet.
-----signature-----
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc "Everyone has a chance to become rich." - Groucho48 "Most of the human wealth on earth exists between the ears of live human beings." - theredkay1
|
|
Link to this post
|
Tych2
Title: Obama Appointed Outpost Czar
Posts:
40,411
Registered:
Mar 1, '05
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 33,378
User ID: 1,032,223
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
Who the hell is Rand Paul? Relative to Ron Paul?
I support this amendment.
-----signature-----
We have enough youth. What we need is a fountain of smart.
Drill Anwar!
Kapie
Drevid in Tanks
|
|
Link to this post
|
imaloon1
Posts:
25,153
Registered:
Sep 15, '03
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 19,758
User ID: 838,293
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
It's his son, Senator from Kentucky.
Good amendment, but pretty much worthless in implementation.
-----signature-----
The time draws nearer to your fate
|
|
Link to this post
|
Tych2
Title: Obama Appointed Outpost Czar
Posts:
40,411
Registered:
Mar 1, '05
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 33,378
User ID: 1,032,223
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
|
So they are a political family, like the Bush's and Kennedy's? Well probably not as bad as both of those families.
-----signature-----
We have enough youth. What we need is a fountain of smart.
Drill Anwar!
Kapie
Drevid in Tanks
|
|
Link to this post
|
paulg_68
Posts:
30,961
Registered:
Jul 27, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 30,669
User ID: 1,364,918
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
Not exactly a political family. More like a son following in his father's footsteps.
-----signature-----
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc "Everyone has a chance to become rich." - Groucho48 "Most of the human wealth on earth exists between the ears of live human beings." - theredkay1
|
|
Link to this post
|
Yukishiro1
Posts:
38,362
Registered:
Sep 20, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 31,453
User ID: 718,633
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
This is sort of the definition of a token effort designed more to soothe people than fix any problem.
The money we're talking about is completely insignificant compared to the damage that having former congresspeople lobbying their colleagues does to the country. If you really cared about the problem you would do something more effective than cut off their congressional retirement, which is bound to be far, far less than they get paid to be a lobbyist.
I don't disagree with the basic idea underlying the legislation but it's pretty much totally pointless on a practical level.
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
paulg_68
Posts:
30,961
Registered:
Jul 27, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 30,669
User ID: 1,364,918
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
Yukishiro1 posted:
The money we're talking about is completely insignificant compared to the damage that having former congresspeople lobbying their colleagues does to the country.
So all lobbying of this sort is bad? If the teachers union employs former congress people to lobby, you oppose that?
-----signature-----
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc "Everyone has a chance to become rich." - Groucho48 "Most of the human wealth on earth exists between the ears of live human beings." - theredkay1
|
|
Link to this post
|
Tych2
Title: Obama Appointed Outpost Czar
Posts:
40,411
Registered:
Mar 1, '05
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 33,378
User ID: 1,032,223
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
paulg_68 posted:
Not exactly a political family. More like a son following in his father's footsteps.
Can't that be said about the BushEs and Kennedys also. I will admit the Pauls probably aren't as bad as the BushEs and Kennedys.
-----signature-----
We have enough youth. What we need is a fountain of smart.
Drill Anwar!
Kapie
Drevid in Tanks
|
|
Link to this post
|
Scarne
Title: Capo di Scientifico
Posts:
27,710
Registered:
Jul 23, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 22,798
User ID: 272,061
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
|
I do like the basic idea of the amendment. But I don't like having him attach it to a mostly unrelated bill. Why not introduce such a lobbying rule as its own bill? Or at least as a part of another bill that is primarily focused on other lobbying rules as well.
-----signature-----
E Pluribus Unum
|
|
Link to this post
|
Cawlin
Posts:
20,754
Registered:
Feb 22, '05
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 20,667
User ID: 1,030,445
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
Tych2 posted:
Also when you pluralize a last name do you add 's or just s? I can never remember that.
I always mess this up too... finally googled it:
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/how-to-make-family-names-plural.aspx
-----signature-----
If ignorance were painful, half the posters here would be on morphine drips.
Everyone playing WoW knows everything about playing two classes: 1) their own and 2) Hunters
|
|
Link to this post
|
Tych2
Title: Obama Appointed Outpost Czar
Posts:
40,411
Registered:
Mar 1, '05
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 33,378
User ID: 1,032,223
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
|
I did the same thing. It was annoying me as soon as I asked.
-----signature-----
We have enough youth. What we need is a fountain of smart.
Drill Anwar!
Kapie
Drevid in Tanks
|
|
Link to this post
|
Cawlin
Posts:
20,754
Registered:
Feb 22, '05
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 20,667
User ID: 1,030,445
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
|
There was a time in (oddly enough) grammar school, when we learned all these rules and they stayed fresh in my mind for many years afterward. Many of them I simply absorbed and use without thinking. Several though, like the one above, just never fully sunk in, or by virtue of doing so much less writing of that nature (as opposed to the technical writing I've done for the majority of my career), I have simply forgotten.
-----signature-----
If ignorance were painful, half the posters here would be on morphine drips.
Everyone playing WoW knows everything about playing two classes: 1) their own and 2) Hunters
|
|
Link to this post
|
Eager_Igraine
Posts:
20,126
Registered:
Nov 21, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 19,548
User ID: 740,268
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
Scarne posted:
I do like the basic idea of the amendment. But I don't like having him attach it to a mostly unrelated bill. Why not introduce such a lobbying rule as its own bill? Or at least as a part of another bill that is primarily focused on other lobbying rules as well.
Interesting that Congress is exempt from insider trading rules, and the Stock Act has been failing to pass for five years now.
-----signature-----
I radiate more heat than light.
I know what you're trying to do but you're just sailing another failboat over the falls. - imaloon1
|
|
Link to this post
|
theredkay1
Posts:
6,731
Registered:
May 16, '08
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 6,729
User ID: 1,297,378
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
How libertarian of him. Its hard to remember when government stepping into the labor market with strict penalties is communism and when its the embodiement of free market principles.
Government shouldnt pass the civil rights act....but it should outlaw certain people from holding certain jobs? 
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
paulg_68
Posts:
30,961
Registered:
Jul 27, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 30,669
User ID: 1,364,918
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
theredkay1 posted:
How libertarian of him. Its hard to remember when government stepping into the labor market with strict penalties is communism and when its the embodiement of free market principles.
Government shouldnt pass the civil rights act....but it should outlaw certain people from holding certain jobs?
So Congress is now the free market?
Have you ever had an economics class?
And how exactly does this outlaw people from holding certain jobs?
-----signature-----
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc "Everyone has a chance to become rich." - Groucho48 "Most of the human wealth on earth exists between the ears of live human beings." - theredkay1
|
|
Link to this post
|
theredkay1
Posts:
6,731
Registered:
May 16, '08
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 6,729
User ID: 1,297,378
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
paulg_68 posted:
So Congress is now the free market?
Huh? You seem confused. The labor market could be a 'free market' but Rand Paul thinks this market works best with the heavy hand of government.
paulg_68 posted:
And how exactly does this outlaw people from holding certain jobs?
Penalize, not outlaw. Bad word choice.
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
Ashmaele
Title: Pastor of Muppets
Posts:
19,662
Registered:
Jan 15, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 15,903
User ID: 612,352
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act that will accomplish absolutely nothing but will make it appear as though he is moral, righteous and ethical.
Fight on brotha
-----signature-----
I had a dream. It was an incredible dream. When I awoke, I had a huge mess to clean up. 
|
|
Link to this post
|
paulg_68
Posts:
30,961
Registered:
Jul 27, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 30,669
User ID: 1,364,918
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
theredkay1 posted:
paulg_68 posted:
So Congress is now the free market?
Huh? You seem confused. The labor market could be a 'free market' but Rand Paul thinks this market works best with the heavy hand of government.
So how does this affect anything in the free market?
I thought it just affected Congress pensions and benefits.
-----signature-----
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc "Everyone has a chance to become rich." - Groucho48 "Most of the human wealth on earth exists between the ears of live human beings." - theredkay1
|
|
Link to this post
|
theredkay1
Posts:
6,731
Registered:
May 16, '08
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 6,729
User ID: 1,297,378
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
There is a market for labor. Rand Paul wants to create financial penalties for certain movements in the labor market. The market does not see the need to penalize this group of people for moving around the labor market but Rand Paul wants it anyway.
The cost of changing jobs is increased for certain individuals. This raises the cost for employers or leads to suboptimal hiring choices. Raising the cost of new employees and increasing the liklihood of less qualified job hires is certainly a government imposition on the labor market.
Its just nice to see the right drop their pretend worship of the 'free market gods' and admit that sometimes direct government intervention into the market will improve the outcome. This is a very basic principle but a large group of people likes to pretend they dont believe it.
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
Yukishiro1
Posts:
38,362
Registered:
Sep 20, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 31,453
User ID: 718,633
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
paulg_68 posted:
Yukishiro1 posted:
The money we're talking about is completely insignificant compared to the damage that having former congresspeople lobbying their colleagues does to the country.
So all lobbying of this sort is bad? If the teachers union employs former congress people to lobby, you oppose that?
Sure. To the same extent I oppose a corporation doing it.
Although what I'm talking about isn't necessarily just generic lobbying but more the "have your former colleague take you out to dinner" sort of stuff.
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
paulg_68
Posts:
30,961
Registered:
Jul 27, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 30,669
User ID: 1,364,918
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
rekday posted:
People on the government payroll working with government is the free market.
-----signature-----
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc "Everyone has a chance to become rich." - Groucho48 "Most of the human wealth on earth exists between the ears of live human beings." - theredkay1
|
|
Link to this post
|
Yukishiro1
Posts:
38,362
Registered:
Sep 20, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 31,453
User ID: 718,633
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
theredkay1 posted:
Its just nice to see the right drop their pretend worship of the 'free market gods' and admit that sometimes direct government intervention into the market will improve the outcome. This is a very basic principle but a large group of people likes to pretend they dont believe it.
Yeah, although that's sorta a straw man. Even most hardcore libertarians believe in antitrust legislation, for example.
Paul is, as usual, doing a miserable job of defending his positions, but I'm not sure they're necessarily anti-libertarian.
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
paulg_68
Posts:
30,961
Registered:
Jul 27, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 30,669
User ID: 1,364,918
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
Yukishiro1 posted:
Sure. To the same extent I oppose a corporation doing it.
Not to the same extent, but it's good to see you acknowledging that they are equivalent.
-----signature-----
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc "Everyone has a chance to become rich." - Groucho48 "Most of the human wealth on earth exists between the ears of live human beings." - theredkay1
|
|
Link to this post
|
Yukishiro1
Posts:
38,362
Registered:
Sep 20, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 31,453
User ID: 718,633
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
paulg_68 posted:
Yukishiro1 posted:
Sure. To the same extent I oppose a corporation doing it.
Not to the same extent, but it's good to see you acknowledging that they are equivalent.
wut
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
paulg_68
Posts:
30,961
Registered:
Jul 27, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 30,669
User ID: 1,364,918
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
The people who treat the free market like a religion are 1% of fiscal conservatives and 90% of libtards.
-----signature-----
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc "Everyone has a chance to become rich." - Groucho48 "Most of the human wealth on earth exists between the ears of live human beings." - theredkay1
|
|
Link to this post
|
paulg_68
Posts:
30,961
Registered:
Jul 27, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 30,669
User ID: 1,364,918
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
Yukishiro1 posted:
paulg_68 posted:
Yukishiro1 posted:
Sure. To the same extent I oppose a corporation doing it.
Not to the same extent, but it's good to see you acknowledging that they are equivalent.
wut
You will quietly acknowledge that a thing is bad when your side does it, but you will actively call it out when the other side does it.
-----signature-----
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc "Everyone has a chance to become rich." - Groucho48 "Most of the human wealth on earth exists between the ears of live human beings." - theredkay1
|
|
Link to this post
|
Yukishiro1
Posts:
38,362
Registered:
Sep 20, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 31,453
User ID: 718,633
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
|
You're just frustrated I refused to be drawn out by your stupid partisan attack and can't gracefully admit defeat.
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
theredkay1
Posts:
6,731
Registered:
May 16, '08
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 6,729
User ID: 1,297,378
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
Yukishiro1 posted:
theredkay1 posted:
Its just nice to see the right drop their pretend worship of the 'free market gods' and admit that sometimes direct government intervention into the market will improve the outcome. This is a very basic principle but a large group of people likes to pretend they dont believe it.
Yeah, although that's sorta a straw man. Even most hardcore libertarians believe in antitrust legislation, for example.
Thats true, I didnt mean to imply this was the only time they have let the mask slip.
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
paulg_68
Posts:
30,961
Registered:
Jul 27, '09
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 30,669
User ID: 1,364,918
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
paulg_68 posted:
The people who treat the free market like a religion are 1% of fiscal conservatives and 90% of libtards.
-----signature-----
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc "Everyone has a chance to become rich." - Groucho48 "Most of the human wealth on earth exists between the ears of live human beings." - theredkay1
|
|
Link to this post
|
Aerlinthian
Posts:
66,222
Registered:
May 7, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 65,491
User ID: 94,919
|
Subject:
Rand Paul offers amendment to Stock Act: If you become a lobbyist, give up your congress benefits
|
Don't be a willful retard theredkay1, elected people to civil service aren't a "labor market".
Further, I would bet dollars to donuts that if this was offered by someone like Denis Kucinich that you would be for it.
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
