“It's another example, unfortunately, where the rules that apply to the rest of us, don't really apply to the members of Congress,” said Schweizer on 60 Minutes.
The report, which contained selected material from Schweizer’s forthcoming book Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets, revealed embarrassing and outlandish instances of cronyism and self-enrichment by members of Congress. Despite the fact that funds from leadership PACs are supposed to go to help elect fellow members of one’s own political party, lax campaign laws allow lawmakers to turn their leadership PACs into private slush funds to fund just about anything.
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I hope everyone in this country is made aware of this. From my perspective we no no longer have a middle class, is has been and is fading away. We now have the very wealthy and the lower class. And among the very wealthiest are the politicians that see themselves in a separate class above everyone else. They control the rest of us by creating legislation that buries the rest of us in taxes and fees.
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