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A Democratic congresswoman from Texas has admitted to inappropriately giving thousands of dollars in college scholarships to four of her own relatives and her top aide's two children, the Dallas Morning News first reported.
Hope they penalize her (not the children) and have her pay it all back.
Since our elected representatives are just that, elected by the voice of The People, I believe it would be well to be able to examine the finances of these "Representatives". There should be zero tolerance for these kinds of infractions.
I've actually heard of this kind of thing before, usually by someone involved in the distribution of scholarships. One of my kids swears that a college friend even told people that he was the recipient of this sort of impropriety thanks to a relative with some kind of inside position.
Amazing how we all know what she did is wrong, but she is claiming.."I had no clue otherwise I wouldn't have done it"...maybe they need to look more into her background, i bet she didn't know she has to declare all her taxes, etc....
..and why again are people against regulations and oversight?
If needed, regulations are a good thing. Often they are simply not needed.
Oversight, if needed, is a good thing, but the problem with oversight is corruption. And, as we have seen with the oil spill in the Gulf, oversight is only useful when those doing the overseeing are not corrupt.
When the corrupt make the regulations, the problem becomes worse since they may not only sell made to order regulations but selectively enforce or not enforce them.
Our government is now hopelessly corrupt and unaccountable to the voters. They sell regulations designed by dominant corporations to destroy their smaller competitors and often get a pass on the regulations themselves (see BP).
In the case described in the OP, the overseer was the one who needed to be watched.
Never have understood why liberals think government can be trusted to regulate and oversee industry when the companies being regulated are often their biggest campaign donors. Yes liberals, we do know corporations are greedy, corrupt and heartless, but Congress is far worse on all three counts.
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