An absurd amount of un-elected power.

He bought his way in. Just with money...not skill, or knowledge, or training, or experience. Just dirty old money.

That always makes me wonder how many decimals I need in MY bank account to do WHATEVER I want. Even if it's illegal.

When PLUNDER becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that AUTHORIZES it and a moral code that GLORIFIES it.

-Frederic Bastiat- (French 1801-1850)

In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit but in his face.

-Diogenes of Sinope- (403 – c. 324 BCE)