How Congressional Members Get Rich

Seeded on Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:53 PM EDT (Money News)

A new study has found that investments held by members of Congress significantly outpace the broader market, raising questions about insider information available to elected officials — but not to ordinary Americans. The study of stock investments by members of the House …

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Leftwingers, unionists, and socialists/Marxist thinkers. Why?
Thu May 3, 2012
- Not one worker went unpaid all that time. No, they went underpaid. That is where the capital came from that was "invested" by capitalists. They stole the profits from the productivity of the workers. Capitalists don't produce anything--they confiscate profits.
Krugman: Wasting Our Minds
Mon Apr 30, 2012
- I cannot reply, Roger Rabbit, because your paragraph (above) is basically incoherant.
Leftwingers, unionists, and socialists/Marxist thinkers. Why?
Thu May 3, 2012
- Anthony apparently has never engaged in actual labor, because he seems unfamiliar with how it works: To make anything labor has to have tools Who made the tools? Labor has to have materials delivered Who delivers the materials?
What Everyone Should Know About The Secretive Group Trying To Swift Boat Barack Obama
Sun May 6, 2012
- I'm no fan of Obama, but the activities of right wing extremists, financed by wealthy sources such as the Koch brothers, should alarm each and every American. Right wing extremists and communists are similar because they represent grave dangers to liberty and freedom.
“We are Preparing for Massive Civil War,” Says DHS Informant
Sat May 5, 2012
- More and more, we are beginning to resemble Germany in 1932.
Krugman: Wasting Our Minds
Mon Apr 30, 2012
- Roger Rabbit said:
Leftwingers, unionists, and socialists/Marxist thinkers. Why?
Thu May 3, 2012
- Anthony said: The middle class would not have any materials to make anything without capital to buy it and supply them. Wrong again.
Leftwingers, unionists, and socialists/Marxist thinkers. Why?
Thu May 3, 2012
- Anthony said: I'm glad you hate it because Traders made the middle class not employees or unions. Actually, for clarification, "traders" actually preferred slaves and brought them first--until it was outlawed. Now they are opting for child labor in China.
Krugman: Wasting Our Minds
Mon Apr 30, 2012
- Roger Rabbit said: You words are deeply disturbing and they affirm my suspicion that this modern American liberastic pinko-commie socialist movement has no idea about it's past, and how closelythis views align with Lenin/Stalin and yes Hitler - who FYI was a socialist, just like you.
Krugman to Obama: You're gonna lose unless you demand a huge stimulus package
Thu May 3, 2012
- The federal debt does not cause me any problems. Joblessness does, however, pose a threat--as does declining wages and a shifting tax structure. Work on those things, not the debt. I do not care about the debt. Like the Bush/Rove team said in 2003, "deficits do not matter."

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