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busdriver
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| Cylinsier wrote: | | Not if the lobbyist checks are big enough. Refer to the blog post I made on that a couple weeks ago. Democrats are just as paid off as Republicans too. They pull in massive amounts of cash from the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries and still keep their jobs because the people running against them don't threaten the status quo and the ones that do can't campaign because they can't compete with those huge lobbyist donations. |
[b] Democrats are just as paid off as Republicans too. [/b]They pull in massive amounts of cash from "any and every one they can"
Cy, as you well know, this is propably the only issue where there will ever be "bi-partison agreement". |
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phonyfeminazi
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| busdriver wrote: | | Cylinsier wrote: | | Not if the lobbyist checks are big enough. Refer to the blog post I made on that a couple weeks ago. Democrats are just as paid off as Republicans too. They pull in massive amounts of cash from the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries and still keep their jobs because the people running against them don't threaten the status quo and the ones that do can't campaign because they can't compete with those huge lobbyist donations. |
[b] Democrats are just as paid off as Republicans too. [/b]They pull in massive amounts of cash from "any and every one they can"
Cy, as you well know, this is propably the only issue where there will ever be "bi-partison agreement". |
Bus, it was, at one time, the job of our Congress to do the work of t he nation.....now, it's their job to pad their wallets.....we have no statesmen in Congress, just filthy, low down criminal politicians.
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Cylinsier
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I agree for the most part. I would say 90% of Congress basically bought their seat by selling their souls to the lobbyists. I understood the need for money to campaign in the past, but with the new era of technology where setting up a web campaign is relatively cheap, grassroots still allows you to touch millions by going online, and word of mouth is actually a reliable and effective method of spreading your platform, I no longer see any reason why politicians should be able to legally take any corporate donations. All campaign donations from private entities should be not just public knowledge, but clearly and openly reported on the homepage of each and every politician. These politicians don't need to be pocketing hundreds of thousands from corporate interest groups on a yearly basis and we all deserve to know exactly who is paying them and exactly how much, and we shouldn't have to look for it. They should be forced to tell us.
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