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In reply to the discussion: Pres. Obama: Why are you pushing the Koch Supported Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)of Rove who merely works for them. Like a butler works for the prince.
He was genuinely upset. He failed to deliver what they paid him for. But to those who have bought our government, it really doesn't matter any more so long as they get what they want.
Obama received millions of dollars from many of them, equally as much as Romney. Why do you think that happened? I was always nervous when I heard that Bush's former donors were donating to Obama.
We need campaign finance reform, REAL reform forbidding these Corporate donations completely or this country will just keep getting worse and worse and it will be too late to do anything.
Even a good person with good intentions, has to get millions, a billion now it seems, to get to the WH. Once they take that money, they owe people. And if they take it from unsavory people, like Wall St Bankers, then we know who will be demanding decisions that benefit them, not necessarily the rest of us.
It isn't about individual politicians any more. It's about a system that is corrupt and that benefits the top most wealthy individuals and Corporations, and does little any more for the people.