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it’s almost as if they are just lying about the purpose and doing it for some other purpose that it is perfectly effective for

Self-enrichment on the part of government employees?! I am SHOCKED BEYOND ALL BELIEF.

/s

We need more judges and prosecutors that are hungry to catch corruption and are willing to go after white collar crime.

We need people of the "can't afford a house, making 50K a year in a rural state" class in politics.

That would shake things up.

They will mysteriously suddenly be able to afford houses (plural) without making much more than 50K a year.

It's a distinct signal of pure ignorance that you conflate the highest levels of publicly elected executive leadership with "government employees".