U.S. Politicians only care about 150,000 Americans - the rest of you can F off. Back in the old days, my local Congress person would care about my $2000 donation at a benefit dinner. Now I won't even be invited for a mere $2K. "The core problem with our democracy today is that we have outsourced the funding of campaigns to the tiniest fraction of the 1 percent. As congressmen spend between 30 and 70 percent of their time raising campaign cash, they focus their efforts on no more than 150,000 Americans. The numbers for Super PACs are even more astonishing: In the 2012 election cycle, 132 Americans contributed 60 percent of the SuperPAC money spent in all races. In no conceivable way does this tiny fraction of political donors represent America." Launching A Super PAC To Fight Super PACs http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/launching-a-super-pac-to-fight-super-pacs
This isn't news to anyone who has been paying attention. Our government has been bought and paid for by a select few for quite some time.
We Americans don't yet "get it". America is now an oligarchy.... political elites run the show and are the beneficiaries of everything. 50% of us are parasites who vote for the oligarchs and keep them in power. 50% of us are the makers.... like slave ants... who work to pay for everything.
House Passes Bill To Aid Koch Brothers, Deregulate Wall Street Posted: 06/24/2014 4:33 pm EDT "WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a financial deregulation package that would benefit the Koch brothers and the nation's largest banks by a vote of 265-143. "The legislation would significantly weaken elements of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law dealing with derivatives -- the complex products at the heart of the 2008 meltdown. Many components of the bill approved Tuesday had previously passed the House with bipartisan support. However, Democratic backing had been weakest on the most controversial measure, which allows U.S. firms to skirt domestic regulations on some derivatives by conducting trades through offshore affiliates in other major financial centers. "Republicans were almost uniform in their support, with Rep. Walter Jones (N.C.) the lone GOP holdout. Democratic opposition was broad, with only 46 Democrats voting in support -- a marked change from several recent House votes on Wall Street deregulation that have drawn substantial backing from dozens, and in some cases an overwhelming majority, of House Democrats. The White House issued a formal statement last week saying that it "strongly opposes" the legislation that passed Tuesday. "The bill includes several separate deregulatory measures sought by the largest Wall Street banks and the Koch brothers, who control significant financial and energy derivatives operations..." More>>
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