Of course it wasn't - but it's an ideal. This suggestion is literally the equivalent of putting a "smart people not wanted" sign up. And "young people not wanted" since you wouldn't be able to save and invest for retirement, meaning you can't ever leave even if you want to. You'd basically be targeting people who need a lifetime guaranteed government job. And you can't vote them out of office if you don't like what they are doing. You tell me if that's quality of people you want and if that resembles anything remotely like a democracy.
The stock trades piss me off. But, what makes me even more angry is the lack of action after Burr and others got information that this virus was very dangerous. He compared it to the 1918 Spanish flu. Burr clearly saw this virus as something that was going to take many lives, and wreck the economy. I assume the President also got this same information. People kept their mouths shut about this coming disaster, but they sure made some fortunate moves in the stock market. The president was downplaying the threat from the Coronavirus, while at the same time getting reports about the seriousness of this probable pandemic. Shame on all of them.
In reality I don't think Trump believed any of the reports. I think he's just plain stupid and refused to accept any of this as real because it was bad for him. Republicans like Burr had to stay in line because the president would turn on them. They once again didn't want to be seen as a traitor to Trump instead of worrying about America. Trump was out there calling it the "new impeachment hoax" while his buddies Dobbs and Hannity were calling it a hoax, Rush was saying it was scheme by Democrats to take out Trump...these Republicans knew the truth and stayed silent while the economy was set to crash and people would die all because they didn't want Trump to mean tweet them.
Why waste your time on @Trader_Jorge he is a troll. Terrible one at that. He is lacking one good trait to be a troll. That is intelligence
yup , putting party and personal wealth over country is not what we should aspire our lawmakers to do . But , it seems that’s the case for far too many .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act (Pub.L. 112–105, S. 2038, 126 Stat. 291, enacted April 4, 2012) is an Act of Congress designed to combat insider trading. It was signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 4, 2012. The bill prohibits the use of non-public information for private profit, including insider trading by members of Congress and other government employees. It confirms changes to the Commodity Exchange Act, specifies reporting intervals for financial transactions. After a 60 Minutes segment on congressional insider trading in 2011, Republican Senator Scott Brown and Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand introduced bills to combat the practice. In February 2012, the STOCK Act passed in the Senate by a 96–3 vote; the only no votes were senators Jeff Bingaman, Richard Burr, and Tom Coburn.[2] Later the House of Representatives passed it by a 417–2 vote.[3] The bill was supported heavily by vulnerable incumbents and signed into law by President Obama.[4] According to the current United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics, "A member, officer, or employee of the Senate shall not receive any compensation, nor shall he permit any compensation to accrue to his beneficial interest from any source, the receipt or accrual of which would occur by virtue of influence improperly exerted from his position as a member, officer, or employee."[5]
meh May sound good but people will find a way to work around it IT's not more rules. . . It's not more regulations Until you can change the greedy seedy human's heart Nothing will change They will simply find new ways of be corrupt Rocket River
All Republican politicians do is keep their mouths shut on the important issues, then nitpick symbolic liberal gaffes, such as the NBA's initial response to Murray or unisex restrooms, and make it a bigger deal than say ...how ready America is dealing with a catastrophic social, economic, healthcare events like climate change, infrastructure repair, chemicals slowly killing us or making us sterile. They ape corporate negligence of stock buybacks with their own personal kickbacks that feed back into their bank accounts all while claiming The Other Side is out to make their lives miserable. White Collar Crime 101: If you can make pennies to the dollar for free, blow up the budget during a growing economy with non essential spending. oh wait! I get a tax rebate and a weekly infusion of tears from liberal elitists... All is forgiven!
Shareholder suit accuses Sen. Richard Burr of securities fraud The lawsuit alleges Burr had confidential information about the effects of coronavirus when he sold up to $1.7 million in stocks. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/23/richard-burr-lawsuit-coronavirus-145564
He'll get a three month stay at home sentence or some **** because he's politically connected. At the same time keep trading his stocks.
Loeffler is weaseling her way out of this one despite being the heaviest hitter - and that can only mean her husband has way too much pull. If you believe in healthy econmies, you need charges against her brought asap, virus or not. Burr can easily get nothing from a lawsuit because what he did wasn't as blatant and public information was out there by the time he made the moves. With Loeffler you have timing to prove it wasn't the case.
Has White collar crime even net a serious jail sentence over the years? The more you steal the more you're somebody, forgot if it was Don or Jeffrey who last said it. Bernie Madoff really drew the short stick at the bimonthly Illuminati g*ngbang. One of them had to be made an example of after ruining hundred of thousands of lives (each). Only one though, we can talk about it over and over as the exception that proves the rule. They better bring back the bread and circuses pronto before we have another "zany" Occupy Situation with Marie Antoinette taking about the virtues of her new clothing line.
