Well-discussed and revealed is the arrangement our federal system has arrived at wherein those who pass legislation are not necessarily bound to its constraints and effects.  Notable are the securities insider trading laws and the health insurance mandates of late. Congress and their staffs have different guidelines for securities trading, still.  Despite a brief “blip” in the media covered outrage, this insider trading issue has gone to the dust bin.  The health insurance matter of what is good for “thee” does not apply to “we” still festers with the high information citizen. Madison had warned of all this in his Federalist 57.  He offered that the “promise” of this form of government would be that “that they (Congress) can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.” If it were only also true for the Federal...(Read Full Post)