Just be sure to always see the Toles cartoon. I stand in awe of his consistent ability to absolutely nail it.
Source: Washington Post
For a bit more word salad on some of points raised here, you can read this, written shortly after Cantor’s primary loss.
The revolving door is simply a symptom of the underlying problem: Our government has grown far too powerful and centralized, which has exponentially increased the payouts.
This is FAR SCARIER:
(http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a4oMb1upKEYY)
May 21 (Bloomberg) — Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, has helped Pacific Investment Management Co.[PIMCO] make “billions of dollars” in his role as a consultant, said Bill Gross, the bond manager’s co-chief investment officer.
That’s right, there is a revolving door at the Federal Reserve….a place where un-elected folks can create money out of thin air and spend it to buy private assets. This should scare you, not a little.