Just to emphasize measuring by Wall Street is by design, I give you Senator Burr or North Carolina.

Post #433,092 by mmoffitt 3/20/20 11:53:11 AM 3/20/20 11:53:11 AM Reply	Just to emphasize measuring by Wall Street is by design, I give you Senator Burr or North Carolina. Soon after he offered public assurances that the government was ready to battle the coronavirus, the powerful chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, sold off a significant percentage of his stocks, unloading between $628,000 and $1.72 million of his holdings on Feb. 13 in 33 separate transactions. As the head of the intelligence committee, Burr, a North Carolina Republican, has access to the government’s most highly classified information about threats to America’s security. His committee was receiving daily coronavirus briefings around this time, according to a Reuters story. A week after Burr’s sales, the stock market began a sharp decline and has lost about 30% since. *[And here we see his concern for the little guy...]* On Thursday, Burr came under fire after NPR obtained a secret recording from Feb. 27, in which the lawmaker gave a VIP group at an exclusive social club a much more dire preview of the economic impact of the coronavirus than what he had told the public. https://www.propublica.org/article/senator-dumped-up-to-1-6-million-of-stock-after-reassuring-public-about-coronavirus-preparedness bcnu, Mikem It's mourning in America again.
Post #433,094 by Ashton 3/20/20 4:00:49 PM 3/20/20 4:00:49 PM Reply	short form: 'A Nation of Grifters' ... to replace the Notional Anthem. A plebiscite?==>Official!
Post #433,096 by a6l6e6x 3/20/20 9:41:04 PM 3/20/20 9:41:04 PM Reply	Not the only one. NY Times The four other senators — Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, James M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, Kelly Loeffler, Republican of Georgia, and David Perdue, Republican of Georgia — have each rejected any suggestion that they played any role in the stock sales, saying their portfolios are managed by others and they were perhaps not even aware the securities were being sold. But Mr. Burr has not disputed that he was involved in the decision, nor that it was motivated by a fear that markets in the United States were about to decline. He said on Friday that his decision had been based “solely on public news reports” out of Asia, largely from CNBC. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #433,117 by mmoffitt 3/23/20 8:49:12 AM 3/23/20 8:49:12 AM Reply	Which makes Burr worse, no? bcnu, Mikem It's mourning in America again.
Post #433,127 by a6l6e6x 3/23/20 8:21:58 PM 3/23/20 8:21:58 PM Reply	Yep, he should resign. But, he would need some sense of honor and justice. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov

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