Missing the Point on the Jack Abramoff Scandal
I don’t personally care a whit who goes to Scotland to play a few holes of golf on someone else’s tab or if a legislator is eating steak instead of rattling the pans in the kitchen in his Georgetown pied a terre, heating up the Kraft Dinner. But I do care that various interested groups are paying off our Senators and Representatives to the tune of a couple billion a year.
You think that’s high? I think it may be low by half.
Actually, you can’t get a total number. It’s all hidden, all smoke and mirrors. But the dollar amount is meaningless, it’s the paid special interests that get legislation harmful to your and my (merely tax paid) private interests that cause us to have
The highest cost prescription (and non-prescription) drug costs in the world
World’s most expensive, but 15th ranked, health care system
Health costs that threaten to swamp the nation’s financial boat
A lawyering system that drives doctors out of medicine
None of which contributes to your or my well-being and that’s where w…