To quote Theodore White, “The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a POLLUTION of democracy.”
Politics in America is polluted, dirty, and corrupted. Alien to the great ideals the fathers of this nation believed in. The preamble: WE THE PEOPLE has been defiled to become WE THE CORPORATIONS! Two years ago (January 21, 2010) the United States Supreme Court astonished anyone with judicious common sense, by the Robert’s court 5 to 4 decision in favor of CITIZENS UNITED. They threw principal and history out the window and decided corporations have the same rights as people! The five majority upended a century of laws regulating business spending and dashed laws protecting the definition of people, citizens, and voters. In this one swoop these five justices of the Robert’s Court, fictionalized corporations and gave them a right never conceived by the writers of the Constitution .
These corporation “people” are funneling untold and unchecked millions of dollars into SUPER PACs to BUY the elections. The Presidency is now for sale, the Senator is now for sale, and the representative too, The bidding has just begun. After a very private behind closed doors meeting last week in California the super conservative secretive oil billionaires Charles and David KOCH joined with about 250 of their game players and pledged $100 MILLION DOLLARS, $100,000,000 to defeat the present president and BUY the next one. Karl Rove has announced plans to support $240 MILLION DOLLARS, $240,000,000 !! The Chamber of Commerce will do likewise. HELL WITH THE COMMON 99% – WE THE CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE NOW – AND WE ARE RICHER!!! MORE POWERFUL with Washington “friends” we put the right places.
There are limits to how much PEOPLE – an individual – can give to a candidate. So much of the money pledged at these pow wows will go to the SUPER PACs that can spend unlimited amounts of funds, and not have to be identified. Amazing! and Dangerous!
The collapse of the American Middle Class has caused attention grabbing concern throughout the US and world. If you are troubled how it happened just watch how the American political campaigns are financed. Who really chooses the candidates? Who owns and controls the press? What giant corporation is behind the TV “news”? The “establishment” controls all through $$$$$$. Listen to the daily newscaster as he or she measures not the candidates abilities to govern but rather the size of their war chest, how much was raised that day,…It is not about fair policy it is about MONEY.
If you wonder why the United States has so many highly profitable corporations paying no Federal taxes, or receiving unwarranted subsidies, granted comfortable tax loop holes hidden in legislation, allowed to operate off shore subsidies to HIDE profits, move jobs out of the US overseas and STILL receive the financial BLESSING of the Congress …look no further. Look at the campaigning and follow the $$$$$
Wonder why the United States is the only country in the industrialized world not to have a national health care system for its citizens, why do Americans pay the highest prices for prescription drugs, why they spend more money on the military machine than the REST OF THE WORLD COMBINED………….Look at the campaigning and follow the $$$$$. It is the BIG MONEY, the powerful interests, that have taken over every legislative decision. It is the Corporations who often pay more to their K Street lobbyist than they do to Federal taxes. It is BIG MONEY owning most of the politicians. That 5-4 decision allowed the floodgates to open on unchecked, unlimited, unaccountable CORPORATE cash gush in the political campaigns. The system has POISONED the American political system. It has CONTAMINATED the legislative progress. It has brought into question all the policy making from Congress. It has DISTORTED the American democracy, favoring the super wealthy, the 1%, and giant corporations.
SHAME ON YOU SUPREME COURT JUSTICES ……Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Scalia and Kennedy….History will remember each of you!!
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