I’m no Marxist. I don’t have a problem with people becoming wealthy through their own acumen and effort. I would almost be able to accept it if our Congressmen and women became wealthy doing a good job, improving our country, our economy. However, they have become wealthy in the process of betraying us and the oath of office they took when they were elected. They have become wealthy through institutionalized corruption, committing crimes that would certainly send any citizen – like Martha Stewart – to prison, but they are immunized by their own legislation from being subject to the very laws we suffer under.
Mr. Pollock misses another interpretation for what is happening, though. Perhaps it isn’t fear of failing to be re-elected that causes them to retire. Perhaps it is the insider knowledge they possess of how bad things will get when the collapse of Europe’s economy is followed by the requisite collapse of our economy. Perhaps they fear the righteous wrath the citizens of this country will feel when this happens, and fear for their lives if they were still in the public view.
However, if the collapse that they have caused, or been a party to, does indeed occur, they will not be able to hide.
