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MADem

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7. Every country does this, and the price is pretty much the same

Wed May 4, 2016, 05:49 AM

May 2016

give or take a bit. It's wrong as hell, but Canada does it, Australia, pretty much anywhere you want to live, if you have the money, they have the entry papers. Remember when Russia (ugh) gave Gerard Depardieu citizenship when he was pissed off at Hollande for raising the taxes? Even Johnny Depp pulled up stakes and said "Fuck these taxes." The rich get richer...! And they stay that way, too.

I feel sorry for the investors, buying their green cards like good little rich people, and then finding they've been MADOFFED! They're probably thinking, shit, we should've gone to Canada instead!

I'm just kid of surprised that the guy who likes to play the Holier Than Thou card is mixed up in this at all. First, the F-35, and the drones, and the Sandia deal...and now this?

Politics as usual.

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Vermont's huge eb-5 scandal is likely the tip of the iceberg [View all] cali May 2016 OP

K&R Dragonfli May 2016 #1

cali lives! nt thereismore May 2016 #2

According to this 2013 article, Leahy and Sanders helped EB-5 get passed by Congress. pnwmom May 2016 #3

This is bad news for the ENTIRE VT delegation and the governor as well--all Dems. MADem May 2016 #5

Every politician in VT knows these guys. UH OH.... MADem May 2016 #4

And Bernie's been ducking questions about this. I wonder why he hasn't been supporting pnwmom May 2016 #6

Every country does this, and the price is pretty much the same MADem May 2016 #7

Yes, and he's a politician, not a saint. n/t pnwmom May 2016 #8

He sure is--and it's in for a penny, in for a pound. MADem May 2016 #15

Bernie's role in this is rather minor. Leahy's is not. Nor is Shumlin's. cali May 2016 #16

They're all boosters and they've voted for this odious program. MADem May 2016 #17

He sure was a booster. And he's swept up in it nonetheless. pnwmom May 2016 #18

We have one if these cases here where I live Dyedinthewoolliberal May 2016 #9

My guess is there are many more of these assholes cali May 2016 #10

I don't see this as a black eye for Bernie Dyedinthewoolliberal May 2016 #13

Leahy was trying to reform the system but Bernie has been refusing pnwmom May 2016 #19

I didn't know that Dyedinthewoolliberal May 2016 #20

Here is more. pnwmom May 2016 #23

Sorry, you are not well informed. I am. Very. I live here. cali May 2016 #21

You live there but I am actually reading the articles that you must be skipping. pnwmom May 2016 #22

they are talking about the same thing hfojvt May 2016 #11

I've been posting about this scandal for weeks in the Vermont Group. TexasTowelie May 2016 #12

Thanks, TT! cali May 2016 #14