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“When the stock portfolios of members of Congress regularly beat the S&P 500 and members leave the office with vastly higher net worths than when they arrived, the public is right to be alarmed,” U.S. Rep. Mary Miller said.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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“ When Pelosi talks, investors listen.”
When he was in the Senate, Harry Truman, a scrupulously ethical man, proposed a simple ethics test for public officials. It asked them only to list their net worth before coming to Washington, and to list their current net worth. The poor guy was nearly run out of town. Nothing has changed.
Both parties will fight any laws to keep them from becoming rich by insider trading and taking money from corporations to vote in their favor. I would love a list of political donations to politicians, directly or funneled through PACs.. would be interesting to see how much stock politicians have invested in pharmaceutical and heath care companies.