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84% Of Americans Want Tougher Online Privacy Laws, But Congress Is Too Corrupt To Follow Through (www.techdirt.com)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

And for the cost, they get to retire with nice government pensions and better healthcare than any of their voters will ever see.

They get way more than just that if they are good little piggies for the ownership class. They get "advisory" positions and board membership that give massive salaries for doing fuck-all as they already did their "job" in government. Totes not a bribe of course, because technicallyyyyy....