I know we all have our differences as far as which side is more corrupt, Democrat or Republican. But a new special on FOX News shows that both sides have some serious problems.
The show focuses on the pork barrel spending, but takes it a step further and shows how some of it borders on criminal.
Just as an example, former speaker of the house and REPUBLICAN (I'm using him as an example to show this isn't a partison thread!) Dennis Hassert dropped an earmark into another bill to include the building of a $200 million dollar highway in the midwest.
No one wanted the highway, most people feel it was not needed as it essentially went nowhere. It cut through farms that had been in families for generations, but now they had to sell parts of their land.
Turns out, in the years before Hassert had formed a legal trust (which can hide from the public who owns it) and had bought up a lot of the land along the planned highway. Investigation by Fox showed his wife wrote the checks to buy the land.
He made millions.
Hopefully this report, which airs this weekend on FOX, will give the justice department some things to chew on, but seriously, we have to figure out a way to get something done about this crap.
That's millions of our dollars going directly into Dennis Hasserts pockets.
