The Clinton family may be the worst living example of political parasitism in the US, but people like Eric Cantor are not far behind:
“You know, people are hurting,” Eric Cantor admitted last month, shortly after his humiliating defeat in a Virginia Republican primary. But Cantor, it went without saying, was not one of them. While LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony shopped their talents around the N.B.A. this summer, Cantor was preparing for his own free agency. Fortunately for the former House majority leader, one truth remains self-evident in Washington: No matter how soundly you’ve been walloped by voters, “opportunities in the private sector” await.
Cantor is the latest example of Washington’s upward-failing, golden-parachuted, everybody-wins calculus. Even if he got his clock cleaned by an unknown economics professor, he remains — at least on paper — a five-tool Washington prospect. During his seven terms in Congress, Cantor became one of the most prodigious fund-raisers in the Republican Party; he performed numerous public services for politicians and captains of industry; he developed close ties to the banking and financial-service industries, his most generous campaign contributors; he is a lawyer; his wife, Diana, is a former vice president at Goldman Sachs. So it’s hardly a surprise that Cantor still wants to “find ways that I can be influential” and “continue that drive for solutions” — albeit, this time, with a seven-figure salary. “What seemed really bad at the time,” Cantor continued to Jonathan Karl on ABC’s “This Week,” “may turn out to be really good.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/20/magazine/eric-cantor-is-on-the-market.html
Government "of, by, and for the people"? Ha !!!
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