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Re: watching the GOP continue to implode
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Originally Posted by JoMe
You're right. Both right and left are still guilty of taking money from lobbiest, wealthy individuals, special interest groups and what not. It's no longer a government of the people, by the people and for the people - no. It's a government of the people with deep pockets, by the people with deep pockets, for the people with deep pockets.
The little guys - the soccer mom, the joe sixpack working stiff and the small business owner have a hard time getting their voice heard. This is why town halls have be so popular. IMO, this gov. run health care smells to me like some lobbiest, someone powerful interest with lots of money pressuring our elected officials to force this down our throats - it's the old "follow the money" adage. (I don't don't have any evidence to back that up, just my suspicion)
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Again, deep pockets only work if you keep electing people who are susceptible to it. I can only hope that if I am ever rich I have the freedom to use my money to support political causes. But I dont vote in corrupt politicians who exists to get relected. The rich and corporations have no more say than a poor person at the ballot box. POliticial corruption is already illegal.
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"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."
-Thomas Jefferson
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