Posted on Aug 9, 2015
Welcome to the millionaire's club, aka 'How America's laws are passed'.
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Do our elected officials vote their conscience or their checkbooks? When you have millions in the bank and are used to a lavish lifestyle, do you see laws being passed for anything other than for the benefit of those controlling the vote? I love this badass country and spent a lifetime defending it, but we need real change.....not more rhetoric. There are lots of political threads on here and it looks like members are dividing into their camps, but count me out. I'll cast my votes when the time comes, but unfortunately I feel like elections have become having to choose between the lesser of two evils. If anyone else feels the same as I do, what can we do about it? By the way, since all the media outlets are owned by the mega-rich, good luck getting our ideas for change heard. What can we demand as the little people? Who works for whom anyway?
http://time.com/373/congress-is-now-mostly-a-millionaires-club/
http://time.com/373/congress-is-now-mostly-a-millionaires-club/
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Like you, I feel like elections are reduced to having to elect the the lesser of two evils, who both win in the end, financially, anyway; and as far as what can we do about it? Sadly, not a whole lot, unless you have the funding to make a difference. Even if the most qualified & experienced someone among us wanted to run, the cost is so ridiculous, who, among us, can even afford it? American politics is a rich mans game, and its the financial gain that win's votes and decides policy... That issue with Planned Parenthood is a good example as there are quite a few congressmen getting a little pocket change from it's operations, then they plead stupidity because of society and fast track a bill that will still knowingly fund it, waiting for it to blow over in 6 months or so, so that everything will continue as before; and we, the American people, will allow it as the media will focus on something "pretty" to draw us away to something else... As far as American politics goes, it's one more piece of Americana that we will never be able to afford, and even if we could, you would have to be just as corrupt to play along...
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SFC Mark Merino If someone earned it before Congress then good for them and I am happy they pay taxes. I just wonder how many were millionaires before they arrived or just 'got that way' on the back of their years in Congress.
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