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In reply to the discussion: Obamacare architect leaves White House for pharmaceutical industry job [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)10. This is not a payoff. It's a reward for good work.
"You can play ball and good things can happen to you get a big pot of gold at the end of the Wall Street rainbow or you can do your job be aggressive and face personal ruin...We really need to rethink how we govern and how regulate." -- Neil Barofsky.
http://www.businessinsider.com/neil-barofsky-2012-8
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Good riddance baucus, it is people like you who have helped reduce the Democratic party to one that
still_one
Dec 2012
#1
OMG, yes you do. It seems to become more relevant with each passing year. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#26
In partial payment for services rendered to the industry while on the taxpayer payroll.
jsr
Dec 2012
#3
We have so many homeless people. Why not require people to buy more houses?
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#12
If the focus truly was to "make it affordable," 1) no steps would have been taken to make it illegal
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#34
What was PO's rule on the swinging door when he first arrived in the Administration?
ReRe
Dec 2012
#25