Reply #15: Part and parcel of the DC culture [View All]

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While being a lobbyist for Amtrak is about as benign a lobbying job as you can get, the fact remains that it is unethical for the blood relatives of high government officeholders to be lobbying the government for money. You'd have to be a fool to believe that there's any other reason that so many of these relations to officeholders have these jobs other than nepotism, and a de facto bribe to the officeholders through their relatives.

Unfortunately that's how DC does business. It's who you know, and the country can be damned as long as the insiders get theirs. And it's a good example of why the government is completely dysfunctional, serves only a select few in abdication of its reason for existence, and is leading us to ruin.