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I was listening to Dan Carlin's "Common Sense" podcast and he mentioned this. He talked about how this was nothing new. There have been attempts at reform for decades before now. In fact, Prescott Bush, GHW Bush's father and GWB's grandfather, was a Senator for Connecticut from 1952-63. During his time in the Senate there was an attempt for such reform but Prescott Bush opposed it. He said that Senators should be able to be a part of the stock market so they could legislate it better. After all, if the wealth of Senators was just as much at risk they would have an incentive to keep the stock market stable.
Even though there were rules against his staffers doing the exact same thing...
Does every problem in this world come back to 'It is all Bush's fault'? I mean come on man seriously. Unless you are going to say that Prescott rose from the grave and is giving seminars to incoming Congressmen and Senators on how to game the system for cash, then all you are doing is a veiled partisan attack, right?
j-mac