Monday, September 21, 2009
How much would you take?
Let's just say that you were given the task of killing about 45,000 people over the next year, screwing 45 million people out of a decent life and guaranteeing the ever increasing bleeding of wallets of another 200 millions into the hands of a greedy few. How much money would you want to perform that fairly hefty task? Your average CEO would do it for $2 to 5 Million plus matching guaranteed bonus, 2x to 10x optional bonus and $100 Million in stock options and grants.
The bipartisan "gang of six" senators who helped craft the health care reform bill going before a key Senate committee Tuesday represent less than 3 percent of the U.S. population - but they hold a lot of power at a crucial policy-shaping moment in Congress.And your influential members get more.
That's why, analysts say, health care industry lobbyists have showered them with more campaign cash on average than other senators this year, in an attempt to influence the outcome.
Three Republican and three Democratic senators in the group, all of them members of the Senate Finance Committee, received an average of $74,600 from health industry lobbyists, according to The Chronicle's analysis of records through June.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Finance Committee who is seen as key to influencing other conservatives, received the most this year - $223,600. Committee chair Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., was second with $141,000.How curious that Grassley is worth more than Baucus. And from from a corporate standpoint, what a bargain! There is not a senior corporate executive in this country who would look twice at the chump change our senators are willing to sell us out for.
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