{"id":5627,"date":"2013-03-11T11:08:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T18:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5627"},"modified":"2013-03-11T11:08:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T18:08:59","slug":"friends-sarkozy-provides-another-example-of-someone-selling-contacts-and-prestige-stolen-from-the-taxpayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/friends-sarkozy-provides-another-example-of-someone-selling-contacts-and-prestige-stolen-from-the-taxpayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends, Sarkozy provides another example of someone selling contacts and prestige stolen from the taxpayer."},"content":{"rendered":"
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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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Sarkozy to Start Private Equity Fund Backed by Qatar?<\/strong><\/div>\n

www.cnbc.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Nicolas Sarkozy is being wooed by sovereign wealth funds including Qatar’s who are ready to back him to start a private equity fund.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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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 … […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5629,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627\/revisions\/5629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}