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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 10:18 PM Sep 2014

John Stewart nails it. "Eric Cantor's $3.5 million salary is not salary, it is for services already [View all]

rendered."

This is the beating heart of corruption that is destroying good governance for common folk in favour of the rich, and they own the game.

Every current member of Congress, as Stewart also said, has their eyes lit up with Wall Street dollar signs even as they accept massive campaign donations from the very same people they then go "work" for. It is immoral and why it is not a crime is a mystery.

This has to end.

You can only change the rules of the game now by the only thing they still fear, common folks voting in their great unwashed hordes.

Everything else is locked up tight, but this carefully constructed vault has one major weakness.

You and me and some of our friends who need to find their way to the voting booths.

It is a path to the inside still open.

They can not see you in there, or how many are going to show up, it makes them very nervous.

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