is public office now just a stepping stone for private sector jobs?
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Tue Jan-04-05 03:30 PM
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| is public office now just a stepping stone for private sector jobs? |
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do the people who supposedly work for US do so only until they can get a job on K street? :mad:
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| slackmaster
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Tue Jan-04-05 03:31 PM
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| 1. It's been that way for a looooong time now |
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Since way before President Eisenhower's warning about the military-industrial complex.
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| BlueEyedSon
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Tue Jan-04-05 03:32 PM
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| 2. And vice versa. It's called the "revolving door" and Cheney, |
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Edited on Tue Jan-04-05 03:32 PM by BlueEyedSon
Rumsfeld, et al have all been through it.
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| punpirate
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Tue Jan-04-05 03:33 PM
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... at least a couple of times....
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| IStriker
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We would have to go back a lot of administrations to reach a place in history that this wasn't the case.
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