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Bettie

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4. A lot of them make a whole lot of

Reply to leftstreet (Reply #3)

Tue Nov 25, 2025, 02:26 PM

Nov 25

money through stock trading while they are in office, since they have inside information.

Over half of the current congress are millionaires.

Of course, I'm sure that we'll be told very soon that being a millionaire is common these days. Not for anyone I've ever known, but hey, I'm just an ordinary person, not wealthy at all.

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