Friends, Sarkozy provides another example of someone selling contacts and prestige stolen from the taxpayer. We find it shocking if someone took priesthood “for a few years” in order to acquire contacts and to subsequently take a job as a salesman for Goldman Sachs; but we accept civil service as a nice career builder … And of course we are offered the sophistry “everyone should be able to make a living”.
The only way to 1 filter politicians and 2 purge the system from tacit delayed corruption is by forcing repayment of all income subsequently earned by ex-officials that is deemed to belong to the taxpayer.Contrast this with Charles de Gaulle who, upon leaving office, spent a decade philosophizing in his austere country home.Current culprits are: Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, John Major, etc. I can hardly find an exception.
I was offered a position in a “governance” thinktank with such blokes as Sarkozy, Blair, Schroder, etc. who have the nerve to talk about such a subject. I declined to be part of it.
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