Aa
Who your next President will answer to
"...money.
Long before the season of baby-kissing and caucus-going begins in early primary states, a no less decisive series of contests is playing out among the potential 2016 contenders along a trail that traces the cold-weather destinations of the wealthy and private-jet-equipped.
In one resort town after another — Rancho Mirage, California; Sea Island, Georgia; Las Vegas — the candidates are making their cases to exclusive gatherings of donors whose wealth, fully unleashed by the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision, has granted them the kind of influence and convening power once held by urban political bosses and party chairmen...."
http://www.telegram.com/article/20150301/NEWS/303019920/1052
"In Rancho Mirage, Cal., Sea Island, Ga., and Las Vegas, the Republican "money primary" is occurring, in which GOP candidates are making their cases to exclusive gatherings of wealthy donors whose riches have granted them far more power than held in the first Gilded Age by political bosses and party chairmen. At least in that age, those bosses were indirectly bound to networks of ethnic urban voters and those chairmen had to court the party hacks beneath them. Now in this second Gilded Age the billionaires have responsibility to nothing and no one but themselves and their heirs. And the deals they're making, unleashed by the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, will add still more to their riches, and compound their power for the next round of payoffs. That the Democrats will have to make similar deals with perhaps more publicly-spirited billionaires does not balance the playing field.
It is now the privileged and the powerful of both parties against the rest of us, whose voices are rapidly disappearing. We must not only vote in 2016, but create an indelible mandate to reverse this obscene corruption."
Robert Reich
Long before the season of baby-kissing and caucus-going begins in early primary states, a no less decisive series of contests is playing out among the potential 2016 contenders along a trail that traces the cold-weather destinations of the wealthy and private-jet-equipped.
In one resort town after another — Rancho Mirage, California; Sea Island, Georgia; Las Vegas — the candidates are making their cases to exclusive gatherings of donors whose wealth, fully unleashed by the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision, has granted them the kind of influence and convening power once held by urban political bosses and party chairmen...."
http://www.telegram.com/article/20150301/NEWS/303019920/1052
"In Rancho Mirage, Cal., Sea Island, Ga., and Las Vegas, the Republican "money primary" is occurring, in which GOP candidates are making their cases to exclusive gatherings of wealthy donors whose riches have granted them far more power than held in the first Gilded Age by political bosses and party chairmen. At least in that age, those bosses were indirectly bound to networks of ethnic urban voters and those chairmen had to court the party hacks beneath them. Now in this second Gilded Age the billionaires have responsibility to nothing and no one but themselves and their heirs. And the deals they're making, unleashed by the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, will add still more to their riches, and compound their power for the next round of payoffs. That the Democrats will have to make similar deals with perhaps more publicly-spirited billionaires does not balance the playing field.
It is now the privileged and the powerful of both parties against the rest of us, whose voices are rapidly disappearing. We must not only vote in 2016, but create an indelible mandate to reverse this obscene corruption."
Robert Reich
"Will have to"??? They already do.
I don't care if candidate X answers to Kock, Soros or whoever as long as he/she follows the Constitution. If that is followed then he will be hard pressed to do anything that is wild and crazy.
People on the left many not like Bush but he followed the Constitution, people on the right may not like Clinton but he followed the Constitution. Obama has not in several cases and things are being over turned and will be over turned by the courts.
I don't care if candidate X answers to Kock, Soros or whoever as long as he/she follows the Constitution. If that is followed then he will be hard pressed to do anything that is wild and crazy.
People on the left many not like Bush but he followed the Constitution, people on the right may not like Clinton but he followed the Constitution. Obama has not in several cases and things are being over turned and will be over turned by the courts.
How about not lying to the public? I'm good with that.
"That the Democrats will have to make similar deals with perhaps more publicly-spirited billionaires does not balance the playing field.
It is now the privileged and the powerful of both parties against the rest of us, whose voices are rapidly disappearing."
There. Saved you the trouble.
It is now the privileged and the powerful of both parties against the rest of us, whose voices are rapidly disappearing."
There. Saved you the trouble.
You must join this user group in order to participate in this discussion.
You are reading content posted in the Current Events . . . Group
A list of national and international resources and hotlines to help connect you to needed health and medical services.
Herpes sores blister, then burst, scab and heal.
Herpes spreads by oral, vaginal and anal sex.
STIs are the most common cause of genital sores.
Condoms are the most effective way to prevent HIV and STDs.
PrEP is used by people with high risk to prevent HIV infection.
