[Healeys] Friday Funnies?

[RThrift]

You specifically mention the Clintons.  However, Bush's cronies have profiteered to a FAR greater extent thanks to contracts for "support" in Iraq.  You don't think they'll pay him back in spades after he leaves office?  

Your 2nd paragraph gives a clue.  What you describe is NOT an issue with current politicians.  Rather it's a problem due DIRECTLY to current corporate business practice.

All In The Family -Company Official Defends No-Bid Army Contract
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/25/60minutes/main551091.shtml
Vice President Dick Cheney was the former CEO of Halliburton. 

Richard


---- MBran89793 at aol.com wrote: 
Does this qualify as a Friday  Funnies?
 
Subject: FW: Harry S. Truman GREAT  President! 

When President Truman retired from office in 1952, his  income was
substantially a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a 
year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally 
licking them, granted him an "allowance" and, later, a retroactive  pension 
of $25,000 per year. 

When offered corporate positions at large  salaries, he 
declined, stating, "You don't want me. You want the office of  the 
president, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American  
people and it's not for sale." Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress  
was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he  
refused to accept it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done  anything  
which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise."  

We now see that the Clintons have found a new level of success in  
cashing in on the presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today, many in 
Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while  enjoying 
the fruits of their offices. Politicaloffices  are now for sale. 

Was good old Harry Truman correct when he observed,  "My choice early  
in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician.  And 
to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. I, for one, believe the  
piano  
player job to be much more honorable than current politicians".