Despicable – absolutely

But that’s just business as usual here in Illinois. It’s a daily occurrence here that some politician is either indited, shown to pocket from his position or have his relatives hired for make work jobs. Like MR said “It’s like a herd of cockroaches scampering from light.” but in this case it’s Illinois politicians and not members our illustrious Legislative branch of government.

Here’s one today that surfaced:

“C harles Flowers is a good family man. Many politicians make that claim, but Flowers now has an audit, conducted by the state, to prove it.

Flowers, superintendent of the Suburban Cook County Regional Office of Education, not only hired his two sisters and a nephew to work for him but has dipped into the office cash when the paycheck wasn’t enough for his relatives.

Less than a year after his election, he approved a $6,000 cash advance to sister Barbara Flowers.

“Repayments were to occur each pay period starting on April 4, 2008. The payroll register does not show any repayments between this date and June 30, 2008,” according to a report by the state’s auditor general, who this week called on the Illinois attorney general and Cook County state’s attorney to investigate Flowers’ operation of the office. …

Everyone knows these are difficult economic times. Most of us have family or friends who are struggling to get by.

Flowers didn’t wait for some federal bailout to help his people. He just stuck his hand into the office kitty and began handing the money out. I mean, it’s sort of like the GM and Chrysler bailouts, only without the red tape.

And Flowers is a hard-working fellow. I know that because every time I call and ask to speak to Flowers one of his sisters tells me he’s out of the office and in the field.

This guy isn’t the sort to sit behind a desk. For example, Flowers took $6,669 in cash advances on his office credit card for personal trips in Mississippi and Illinois to purchase a vehicle and furniture for his office, according to the auditor’s report. He also purchased airline tickets to Mississippi for family members and paid for a rental car.”

Full article:
http://www.southtownstar.com/n.....er.article

That my friends, is how Illinois works.

From Wilipedia:

“Insider trading is the trading of a corporation’s stock or other securities (e.g. bonds or stock options) by individuals with potential access to non-public information about the company. ”

“The United States is generally viewed as having the strictest laws against illegal insider trading, and makes the most serious efforts to enforce them.”

So isn’t illegal when Durbin “the day after then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke urged congressional leaders in a closed meeting to craft legislation to help financially troubled banks”?

I have a picture in my mind of the end of that meeting. It’s like a herd of cockroaches scampering from light.

“While lawmakers gave no details at the time, Pelosi has repeatedly said since the meeting that Paulson and Bernanke warned that if Congress didn’t act quickly the U.S. economy would collapse.”

So she and o-blah-blah IMMEDIATELY went to work to make it happen!

Aren’t they doing just a swell job!?!?!?

God help us!

fixed that