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The Money That's Buying Our Elections and Government In These United States

Why we must fight to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United Ruling and then fight to end campaign contributions.



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We must.

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New Term for Bought Politicians

So a buddy of mine were talking at work and I gave him my usual, deeply felt opinion, briefly, that I thought the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision had to be overturned and that we had to kill campaign contributions. That, until we do that, nothing would change, it would remain representatives, legislation and so, laws and government for the wealthy and corporations. (I didn't say all that but you get the idea).

And this buddy says we have to end the...

wait for it...

pocketicians.



Dang.

I instantly loved it.

He said it just came to him.

Had to spread the word.  Literally.

(With great thanks to friend Joe--Joe Thompson--for the word. Glad I was there).

We Must Get the Big Money Out of Our Elections and So, Government

We must fight to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision which opened up the financial coffers of the wealthy and corporations. It made it possible to pour unlimited amounts of money into election campaigns in the nation.



Additionally, we must fight to end campaign contributions, completely, totally. We must fight to Get the Big, Ugly Money Out of Our Election System and Government.

If we don't do these things, nothing will change. We won't get our government back for the people.

And this must come from us.

What Campaign Contributions Are

Let's face it, we all know this. This is what campaign contributions have become. They are legal bribes.

We have to fight these things. We have to get the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling overturned and then we need to end campaign contributions totally. Unless or until we do this, nothing will change. It will still be legislation and government for the wealthy and corporations first and for the rest of us a distant second, if at all.

And it has to come from us.

They're "Job Creators", all right

What America needs to do

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A Repubican who got it

Yet another Republican, of course from the past, who understood we couldn't let campaign contributions run amuck in this country:

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Get the Big, Ugly Money Out of Our Election System and Government

From the "Things We Allow Corporations to Get Away With" file

Perhaps you saw some of these headlines in the last few days?

West Virginians to be without water for days because of chemical spill

Tap water fix in West Virginia still days away, official says

Thousands Without Water After Spill in West Virginia

West Virginia chemical spill frustrates residents for fourth day

Which brings up this thought I saw yesterday on Facebook:

"If a foreign terrorist group poisoned the water of an entire region in the U.S. we'd likely be going into another war, but since it's just an improperly regulated company, well, that's just the cost of doing business."

--From a post on Http://Fb.com/TheMarmelPage

Additional link:  The Steve Marmel Page

We must take back our elections and so, our government

Smart kid

 

Fight to end campaign contributions.

 

Let's get the big, ugly, corrupting influence of money from the wealthy and corporations out of our elections and so, our government.

 

It's the only way we'll get our government back for the people.

 

ALL the people.

 

 

 

Let's get the big, ugly money out of our elections

And so, out of our government.

 

Fight to end campaign contributions.

 

 

Yet more reasons we need to end campaign contributions

As though there aren't already enough reasons to end the obscenity that is the campaign contributions of our election and government system--a lot I've written of here--yet more:

Leftover Loot: More Leave Congress With Lots of Campaign Cash

Members of Congress spend much of their careers chasing campaign cash and struggling to boost their war chests to fight off the next rival. When their careers are over, and there are no more rivals, many quickly dispose of what little cash is left by donating it to charity, returning it to donors or transferring it to party committees.
 

But not all. An increasing number find themselves sitting on flush bank accounts. 

 

A Center for Responsive Politics analysis shows that the number of former members of Congress who have campaign committees holding more than $100,000 has dramatically increased. In the 1998 election cycle, there were just 18 former members with war chests of that size. The number rose and fell slightly over the years until 2010, when there were 21. By 2012 there were 37. Now, the campaign accounts of 52 ex-lawmakers hold more than $100,000 in cash -- and eight have more than $1,000,000.

 

For some, this creates an opportunity to continue to play a role in politics or to support politicians they like. But several told OpenSecrets.org that with so many charities and politicians asking for a cut of the action, having a lot of leftover campaign cash becomes something of a burden.

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We need to stop this nonsense.

 

We need to demand an end to campaign contributions in our elections so we can get our government back.

 

For the people.

 

 

 

Think "Obamacare" isn't for you and me?

Think again:

Report: Obamacare's '80/20' rule has led to nearly $4 billion in savings

From that same report:

While "Obamacare" is controversial, a new report shows that it has saved consumers billions of dollars.According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the new "80/20" rule, which requires insurers to spend 80 percent of every dollar earned on medical services, helped saved American consumers $3.9 billion in 2012.

The savings were divided into two areas. About $3.4 billion was saved by insurers keeping their premiums lower in order to comply with the new law and $500 million came in the form of rebates being sent back to consumers who overpaid for their premiums. The total cost wasn't solely the result of the "80/20" rule, but it was the leading cause of premiums being kept at a lower level.

I won't, I can't add anything further to that except to say it's for us. The Affordable Care Act--Obamacare--is for us, not the corporations. 

That and the fact that, if you're against it, you'd better be wealthy and/or in the health care industry and extremely well-paid already.

Yet more on buying and selling our government

What I've said all along--our representatives and their legislation are all, both, bought and paid for, as if you didn't need telling:

9-month-old Florida firm donates $140,000 to Scott and state GOP, gets $52 million state deal

Not only that but our government representatives, their legislation and so, our laws and finally, our government is all bought at exceptionally low rates and the benefits the corporations and wealthy get are exponentially larger, as this shows, above.

Disgusting.

From the file "Why We Need to End Campaign Contributions"

And as soon as possible.

We have to fight this, folks. We have to end campaign contributions. And it has to come from us, the people, so we get our government back.