Getting Paid To Do Nothing

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And the filling of that swamp continues:

When Nancy Pelosi was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, she promised to change things — to enact serious, and long overdue, ethical reforms — to stop the growing trend of legislators and their families accepting gifts, trips, and jobs from lobbyists and corporations.

Well, some things never change.

Several days ago, Newsmax.com disclosed that in February, shortly after his mother became the first woman speaker, Paul Pelosi Jr., was hired by InfoUSA for $180,000 a year as its vice president for Strategic Planning. Pelosi also kept his other full-time day job as a mortgage loan officer for Countrywide Loans in California. And, unlike all of the other InfoUSA employees, he did not report to work at the company’s headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska.

InfoUSA is the same company that has been cited by the New York Times for creating marketing lists that were used by con artists to fleece vulnerable elderly people. The lists had provocative names and offered the names of elderly people with cancer, elderly people with Alzheimer’s and gamblers over 55 years of age who think their luck will change. After purchasing the lists, the con artists would call and convince the elderly person that they had actually ordered an expensive item. Once they received the victim’s financial information, they often emptied their bank accounts, leaving many people penniless. Some of InfoUSA’s internal e-mails suggest that company employees were aware that several of the companies they sold the lists to were under investigation.

Oh, it doesn’t stop at Pelosi either:

And InfoUSA is also the same company that Bill Clinton works for as a consultant, and for which the former president was paid $3.3 million over the past five years. In addition, the Clintons got $900,000 worth of free travel.

[…]The chairman of InfoUSA, Vin Gupta, is a large donor to Democratic candidates. Minority shareholders have questioned his payments to Bill Clinton and his gifts of free travel to Hillary. The shareholders claim that Gupta has been improperly using corporate resources to further his own political goals. Gupta gave over $1 million to the Clinton Library and $2 million towards Hillary Clinton’s $16 million millennium New Years’ Eve Party.

So, there’s no question that Gupta likes to be close to the powerful. He’s stayed in the Lincoln bedroom and hosted the Clintons on a $146,000 vacation trip to Acapulco on his corporate jet. Lately, Pelosi’s son has been accompanying Gupta on his jet. He claims that it’s been strictly business and is “nothing like the Clinton situation.”

Yup, nothing like the Clinton situation.  A man who just so happens to be the son of the Speaker of the House is paid highly for a job in which he has NO experience, gets to ride in the Chairman’s private jet, and never even has to show up to work.

Nothing unusual there.

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Let me guess the response.

“Oh well, they’re all corrupt I guess. Whatcha gonna do?”

while 12 months ago

“They’re corrupt. They should lose office, skip the trial and go directly to jail.”

Pigloooshi has accomplished a lot. She has provided 6 months of unending comedy and insured that prison guards in the future will have no shortage of prisoners. Did anyone, democrat or republican expect anything but a return to the criminal activity of the 90’s?

More examples of the change voters were looking for in the 06 election cycle.

Hope they are happy…