Buying US Elections ,watch out in 2016

So next time a Libtard starts bashing the Koch Bros. 

show them this.

As the late Robin Williams once suggested, a more accurate representation of the political process would occur if candidates wore jerseys like Nascar drivers. They would be covered in patches that said, ‘Astra Zeneca’, or ‘Koch Brothers’, ‘Monsanto’ or ‘Lawyers R Us’ to represent the largest corporate contributions to members of Congress in the 2014 cycle.

Furthermore, we’ve come close several times, to Congress giving an outright blessing for complete exemption of truth about campaign spending.  The Federal Election Commission (FEC) was recently on the verge of granting a prominent Washington, D.C. Tea Party group an exemption from federal reporting and disclosure requirements not only for donors, but also for expenditures.

Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) has blasted the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, calling it one of the “worst” rulings in the history of the court. The 2010 Citizens United ruling struck down restrictions that had barred corporations and unions from spending money from their general treasury funds to support or oppose political candidates. Though the senate had voted 79-18 to debate a constitutional amendment that would reverse two recent Supreme Court rulings that lifted limits on campaign spending, they will remain.

The promise of more transparency and open government by the Feds, is laughable. As long as biotech companies, corporate polluters, and pharmaceutical behemoths, among others, have the opportunity to buy our politicians, we don’t have an open government. Following are just a few examples of corporations who buy votes in Congress and the Senate with their deep pockets:

• Monsanto’s contributions to the House and Senate can be found here.
• Big Pharma spent nearly $2.7 billion on lobbying expenses from 1998 to 2013 —more than any other industry and 42 percent more than the second highest paying industry: insurance.
• The political action committees of the 11 largest health insurance companies and their primary trade group gave $10.2 million to federal politicians (in the last five years) with nearly two-thirds of the total going to Republicans who oppose the law or support its repeal, according to the Center for Public Integrity’s analysis of Federal Election Commission filings.
• Other big donators are in telecom, media, and Internet industries – to promote the limiting of viable, unbiased reporting. You can find a list of these big contributors,here.

It isn’t difficult to see who is running this country. It certainly isn’t the people. When you consider that just a few elite individuals own a majority of the Fortune 500 companies in this country, and that those companies give exorbitant amounts of money to political campaigns, it is obvious we have become an oligarchy.

Charles de Montesquieu, the French politician and philosopher once said, “The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy,” but the US of A is no longer a democracy. It was sold to the highest bidder long ago.

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