Hand In The Pocket
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Pssst, tax slave, lend me your ear.
I hope by now you realize that the entire voting process is controlled by corporatism. Money, of course, is the mother's milk of politics and corporations are the cow. Anyone running for office above dogcatcher must be financed by as many corporations as possible. There is no other way to make a serious bid for any office. Only a small fraction of the contributions come from you small-time tax slaves. That's why politicians spend over half their time fundraising and kissing up to more corporations.
In the 2007 and 2008 election cycles, out of $5,836,415,127 that was given to state and federal candidates 3,123,233,300 or 53.5 percent came from the top 10,000 state and federal contributors i.e. corporations and PACs.
National Educational Association, $56 million. Pechanga Band of Mission Indians i.e. gambling casinos, $45 million. At maximum there could be only a few hundred such Indians. I know, I've been on that reservation. Penn National Gaming, $41 million (gambling). Community Financial Services Association, $34 million. Service Employees International Union, $30 million. National Association of Realtors, $29 million. Lakes Entertainment (gambling), $26 million. Act Blue, $23 million. For a complete list, go to opensecrets.org
This is why a two-party system is so easily subverted so it is not possible for an individual to gain high political office without kissing the ring of the corporations.
Sample, the governor and senators from Indiana all receive large donations from Eli Lilly drug corporation and DuPont. Both corporations sell huge amounts of chemicals for inflated prices used by Colombian drug cartels to process drugs that are shipped back into the United States. But yet these same politicians will swear to you they are fighting a war on drugs.
What I tell you is just the tip of the iceberg and the iceberg is polluted to the core.
Tom Metzger
Warsaw, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
Pssst, tax slave, lend me your ear.
I hope by now you realize that the entire voting process is controlled by corporatism. Money, of course, is the mother's milk of politics and corporations are the cow. Anyone running for office above dogcatcher must be financed by as many corporations as possible. There is no other way to make a serious bid for any office. Only a small fraction of the contributions come from you small-time tax slaves. That's why politicians spend over half their time fundraising and kissing up to more corporations.
In the 2007 and 2008 election cycles, out of $5,836,415,127 that was given to state and federal candidates 3,123,233,300 or 53.5 percent came from the top 10,000 state and federal contributors i.e. corporations and PACs.
National Educational Association, $56 million. Pechanga Band of Mission Indians i.e. gambling casinos, $45 million. At maximum there could be only a few hundred such Indians. I know, I've been on that reservation. Penn National Gaming, $41 million (gambling). Community Financial Services Association, $34 million. Service Employees International Union, $30 million. National Association of Realtors, $29 million. Lakes Entertainment (gambling), $26 million. Act Blue, $23 million. For a complete list, go to opensecrets.org
This is why a two-party system is so easily subverted so it is not possible for an individual to gain high political office without kissing the ring of the corporations.
Sample, the governor and senators from Indiana all receive large donations from Eli Lilly drug corporation and DuPont. Both corporations sell huge amounts of chemicals for inflated prices used by Colombian drug cartels to process drugs that are shipped back into the United States. But yet these same politicians will swear to you they are fighting a war on drugs.
What I tell you is just the tip of the iceberg and the iceberg is polluted to the core.
Tom Metzger
Warsaw, via e-mail[[In-content Ad]]
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