Budget showdown,
government shutdown, debt ceiling debacle—the stakes are real but the
establishment seems to feed off the chaos they create as a means to foment fear
and outrage and translate it into campaign donations for themselves. Look closely and you’ll see that something
seismic is going on under the surface of the manufactured chaos in D.C.
Washington has
morphed into an extortion racket, a place where members of the permanent
political class threaten to inflict legislative and regulatory pain to extract
campaign donations that they can then siphon into the pockets of themselves and
their family members.
In a new book
featured this Sunday on 60 Minutes
titled Extortion:
How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets,
Peter Schweizer explains how Washington politicians use a set of
mafia-style legislative tactics to extort people and industries into donating
to them out of fear of political and legal reprisals. …..To Read More….
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