We’ve lost control of politicians
How can a guy, Newt Gingrich, whose parents were teenagers and divorced right after his birth and his mother remarried to a military man shortly after, become so filthy rich?
It is obvious he did not inherit money. He made it while he was in Congress.
He was elected to Congress when he was in his young thirties and has been a professional politician ever since.
I had no idea Congress paid so well that he could become so absolutely filthy rich on a politician’s salary, so rich they say that he can afford to give his wife $300,000 Christmas gifts from Tiffany’s.
Just recently we have learned Fannie Mae has paid for his consulting over $1.6 million. This is just one deal recently disclosed. How many more of these kind of deals has he been involved in over the years since 1978?
This is outrageous and nobody seems to care.
What is happening in Washington? What is happening to America? What is happening to us that we no longer have any control over our politicians?
Leo A. Dietrich
Lake Villa