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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JBTFD who wrote (731371)	3/13/2006 2:05:41 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I did look it up. Because Donald Rumsfeld is no longer a director his holdings are no longer reported to the SEC as an officer or director. The fact remains that Cliff made a specious claim that being employed when not in government service was a sign of corruption. You claim that accepting payment for work is now defined as "profiteering from your position of influence" and a sign of corruption. I have to admit I have read funnier things, but generally they are penned by professional comedians. Perhaps you believe that having a job is a bad thing. Attitudes like that are not ones that help our nation's economy. I remember people like you and Cliff whining about Dick Cheney getting paid for running Halliburton too. Do you remember when Lee Iacocca made a big deal about only being paid $1? He was taking big stock options. He was not complying with your egalitarian ideals of not being paid for work. Why don't you whine about Hamilton Jordan's corruption? He was taking "bribes" from the companies he was director of while advising Clinton. That is serious because it was simultaneous.