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Is it really surprising that our politicians believe they are above the laws that they create? They believe the laws are for us sheep and not for the wolves. L

• hanniabu 11y ago
  Well technically they don't think they are above the law and aren't breaking any laws because they write into legislation exceptions for themselves. And for anybody that doesn't know about the insider trading....insider trading isn't illegal for them. That's most likely one reason they get so rich in office.
• adekok 11y ago
  Never attribute to maliciousness what can be better attributed to stupidity. I've worked with managers who simply couldn't comprehend that a particular issue was a problem for the engineering department. No amount of examples, demonstrations, or complaints helped. It wasn't an issue for them, so the issue didn't exist. Their story changed later when they ran into the issue. It was now a problem that had to be fixed immediately. I would explain very slowly that yes, this was a problem. And that they had been made aware of it months ago. And that they had opposed fixes to the problem. The response, of course, was blank incomprehension. They just couldn't understand that they were incapable of understanding something. Needless to say, I don't work with those kind of people any more.
  • steven2012 11y ago
    I am very, very consciously attributing this to maliciousness. Have you not been paying attention to US politics for the last ~15 years?
  • atom-morgan 11y ago
    > Never attribute to maliciousness what can be better attributed to stupidity. We are talking about the government here.