{"id":27554,"date":"2017-11-02T09:16:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T14:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27554"},"modified":"2017-11-02T09:16:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T14:16:31","slug":"washington-d-c-is-swarming-with-unaccountable-parasites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27554","title":{"rendered":"Washington D.C. is Swarming With Unaccountable Parasites"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Washington D.C. is Swarming With Unaccountable Parasites<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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In theory, Americans should be proud of their national capital and all the important work that gets done there. In theory.<\/p>\n

In reality, our nation\u2019s capital is an utter cesspool of self-serving, unethical and unaccountable parasites. We all know it and, even worse, it\u2019s probably a hundred times more grotesque than we can imagine. A distressingly high number of people attracted to this swamp don\u2019t go there to do good public work or help the American people. They go in order to enrich themselves at our expense.<\/p>\n

A particularly degenerate strain of D.C. cretin is the lobbyist. These people swarm into Washington to influence the purse-strings of the U.S. government and funnel as much American treasure as possible in the direction of their clients, including Wall Street oligarchs, defense contractors and barbaric foreign monarchies like Saudi Arabia. We\u2019re told that Washington D.C. exists specifically to protect and benefit the American public, yet the average citizen is the one constituency which has virtually no actual representation there. Helping the vulnerable doesn\u2019t pay very well.<\/p>\n

Over the past couple of days, I\u2019ve be reading political stories describing the \u201cbeltway buzz\u201d in the aftermath of the Paul Manafort and Rick Gates indictments. I\u2019ve found these articles quite instructive. The common theme is that hordes of the shady crooks who operate in D.C., and add absolutely zero value to society, are panicking that their gravy train of legalized corruption may be coming to an end.<\/p>\n

To see what I mean, let\u2019s examine two recently published articles. First from Politico<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Washington lobbyists who represent foreign powers have taken comfort for decades in the fact that the Justice Department rarely goes after them for potentially breaking the law.<\/strong> That all changed on Monday.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington D.C. is Swarming With Unaccountable Parasites In theory, Americans should be proud of their national capital and all the important work that gets done there. In theory. In reality, our nation\u2019s capital is an utter cesspool of self-serving, unethical and unaccountable parasites. We all know it and, even worse, it\u2019s probably a hundred times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16840,4285,4768,6174,827,865],"class_list":["post-27554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-influence-peddling","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-lobbyists","tag-michael-krieger","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27555,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27554\/revisions\/27555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}