Money won . There is no doubt our election funding system is partially responsible. It costs a billion dollars to run for president. If we do not get public funding the wealthy will just get more powerful until the people are irrelevant. Our financial crisis was orchestrated by the wealthy to enrich themselves. Our warrior ways are making the military/industrial complex richer and richer. Who can stand up to them and live.
If you condemned our current President for breaking his promise to run his campaign on public funds, I must have missed it. Although it is good to see that you now realize that Obama is merely a toll of the wealthy and powerful, and is out to screw you bloody.
Did you happen to have a cite for this piece of stupidity? Or are the Illuminati too clever for that?
Regards,
Shodan
Of course the wealthy are orchestrating things to enrich themselves – that’s how they get wealthy – but the current financial crisis is an accidental by-product rather than a deliberate part of the enrichment process. Many wealthy people have lost significant sums in this crisis.
That’s just what they want you to think…
Regards,
Shodan
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Yes, we know. As are they all. Obama’s innovation was to raise much of his funds from many tiny anonymous donors, making him less proportionally to the giant banks that gave him huge monies. In time, we shall probably realize that this merely created a false sense of participation on the part of the peons, & allowed his true masters to pay less for his victory.
Well, I can think of one exception.
Regards,
Shodan
Really. I suppose the Gramm removal of Glass was an accident.And the financial modernization act was an accident. Then the creation of exotic and complicated financial instruments with no government or business oversight just happened. The regulators were removed .They did not die in a plane accident. Paulson and the big financial wigs exerted huge pressure to dismantle regulation. They made billions using a a plan to make it all possible.
Well, I wouldn’t say they, ‘engineered’, it but it was caused by a lot of people who DID know better doing things that were unsustainable, but they thought they’d get away with it. Bernie Madoff, Dick Fuld, and all these guys were messing about and playing games that they knew weren’t kosher. It wasn’t their intent to make the economy collapse but they knew what they were doing.
Only the crash was not part of the plan. They thought it would last forever. Paulson made a mere 800 mill and then was kind enough to fix the mess for us. Of course he funneled billions into the Goldman so they were made whole. Goldman experts are all over the bailout . AIG was into Goldman for billions. Coincidence that they were saved.
So let me get this straight. McCain had trouble fundraising but received funds from the same groups as Obama on the higher end of financing, but was stomped at the grassroots level where Obama raised the lion’s share of his money, and somehow this make McCain more honest in his campaigning?
What a bizarre little world you live in.