>Power hungry certainly, but if they were really greedy they could satisfy that far more easily in private industry for the same amount of talent and work. Not

>Power hungry certainly, but if they were really greedy they could satisfy that far more easily in private industry for the same amount of talent and work. Not really. The private industry takes far more effort. A guy like George Bush Jr. (family aside) could never had made it anywhere except maybe in a used car dealership in Odessa, TX, or as a McDonalds manager at Boise, ID. The same applies for most good at nothing, silver spoon fed, sons and daughters of statesmen, politicians and the like. And it's not like what they make is their salary at the government or GOP. It's the under the table and side deals that make up most of it. Corporate contributions rarely stop at the party level.