Sickening confirmation that money rules politics

House Passes Bill Striking Preemptively at EPA's Regulation of Farm Dust | MapLight - Money and Politics:

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Maplight does us the service of showing the money trail and how it favors regressive legislation, lining the pockets of all who vote with the interests.


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All sorts and conditions

AmazingI go out for a walk and think I will go down this streetBut I see there is a serious congestion - a line that seems double wide and more in placesSo I double back and figure I will go across the next blockAs I walk I notice that the line extends to the end of this blockAnd that I cannot parse from looking what they are waitng forThere is no one race or age or dressMost conspicuous would be to me the men wearing coats and ties and standing dignified and silentI hate waiting in lineThis line that looks like America is waiting silentlyAt the corner I see that it extends down the other blockI talk to a young man who stands behind an older womanHe explains that they are waiting for a job fairThe word unemployed escapes his lips In a nanosecond I sense he is vastly qualified and probably one of a million like himselfI suggest that nothing seems to be working and he and the woman both nodI explain that I think circulation of money might do the trick if it was all on a computer and the lower level raises as everyone recycles itAnd jobs become a privilegeAnd truly necessary work is well paidThey nod with approval about the lower level raisingHere at home I think that maybe we are talking the evolution of savings banks
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The problem is that these bundlers are clueless about normal folk and their needs.

Obama fundraising report signals juggernaut campaign - The Washington Post: "President Obama has amassed a formidable team of more than 240 big-dollar fundraisers just three months into his 2012 reelection campaign, including more than two dozen bundlers who have each raised at least $500,000." Obama is on the other side from the rest of us. He may not have been when he started but time works its spurious magic and power does the rest. I am higher up than the bottom third of Obama contributors and from the start I have been unaware that anyone over there has heard a thing I have been saying. Which is a very poor record for someone who has been right 90 percent of the time. These people own and drive cars with no consciousness and live in apartments that would rent for double in a month what people make in a year. They call what they live the good life. By what standard? Jesus?


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Money is one root of personhood

Money is one root of personhood

Like food or books or things the choice is all 

To have and make and share it does us good

Its when we fail in these things that we fall

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