Another Trump administration staffer at the Department of the Interior has begun working for a gas and oil company after leaving the government agency.
I’d resign too.
Looks like even right wingers with next to no ethics are bailing on trump.
After reading the 1619 collection of articles on our institutional inheritance, it may be wishful thinking that we could get to some sort of normal cooling off period as officials move across the public-private-sector barrier. We know how much a fresh official out of a department regulating your company is worth, and we know roughly the rate at which that decays. The danger of such moves is that the private company can elicit compromised behavior while the official is in public office and then simply give out a salaried post as a plum for sabotaging the public instution’s enforcement mechanisms or rule-making.
Don’t worry, all of that is a crime. People do go to prison over it - - probably the most famous one was the woman who steered a massive contract to Boeing, then went to work for them.
And then went to prison.
He may be safe now, but only until the Trump Administration is over.
This is going to take a looong time to clean up. And yes, I’m being optimistic.
Do you mean the 1619 Project NYT presented about slavery? They devoted an entire section one Sunday to it, it was done so very well.
its not just for Japanese pro wrestlers.
They’ll call it draining the swamp.
Yes. Must reading. Slavery was the largest component of US GDP for eight decades.
The story grabbed me and didn’t let go and I haven’t read references to it anywhere else which is wrong. We all must listen up and learn about our sins. Let me recommend this book to you. Brillant, heartbreaking but necessary. The Brits were the first to abolish slavery and this is that story.
Vertical integration—first control policy to benefit a particular industry and then join that industry. Only problem is it corrupts the policy process absolutely. What do we expect when the POTUS himself refuses to disclose how his policy pronouncements affect him personally? This is what they do.
So the swamp isn’t being drained, it’s being franchised.
Since I wore out Roger Anderson’s 'Get While the Gettin’s Good ’ on these clowns and they STILL keep leaving, how about Dell Shannon’s Runaway?
I’m curious if anyone has quantified what percent of GDP is generated by both legal and illegal immigrants working for substandard wages in substandard work environments?
While he was working for the Interior, Balash pushed for oil drilling on federal lands.
Basically the same job, but the pay is a lot better.
This has been going on for a long time, the Trump administration has just taken it to previously unknown levels. The revolving door connecting government positions and the industries they are supposed to be monitoring and regulating needs to be shut down permanently.
We either need to raise civil service compensation or tax the heck out of private sector salaries. Because if you’re going to ask smart people to make their careers in government and not just build up a resume for the jump, they’ve got to be able to stop worrying about affording a decent house or sending their kids to college or eating dog food when they retire. (Hmm, maybe some kind of allowance that gets stopped when you leave…)
Another Interior Dep. Official Quits To Work For A Gas And Oil Company
Correction: He has always been working for the Gas and Oil Company, he is just now been officially placed in the company’s payroll.
Isnt this is what government is for? After all these guys have no interest other than their own.