let me give you some fun and depressing fax about money in politics in america
so all mama's campaign although it had a lot of donors
uh... actually had over two-thirds of the money sixty eight percent
come from
ronnie's david of course at eighty two percent of the money coming from large
donors
of surprises that low for on me
uh... so in reality
present no bomb is more beholden to big donors that he is a small donors of
course
in fact is
over point three percent of americans donated two hundred dollars or more to
candidates
impacts this year
so that is a very very small percentage of us
but they actually care about
but it's actually even smaller than that because look if you give two hundred
bucks for four hundred bucks you think it'll bomb was in a related to the white
house beating george w_ bush is gonna have used part of his energy task force
a dick cheney rent of course not
but as a cannot who was a cube over ten thousand dollars
so what percentage of americans here over ten thousand
or one percent
so in reality we're not talking about the one percent
where you can talk about the point one percent
the guys who actually run this country although
point or one percent
and you could be among the top one oh one percent richest but if you don't
give money to politicians that you don't get the bible
the ones that actually purchase our politicians are not point no one percent
and they set the loss of their advantage
so that they would
speed which properties elbows in two thousand four they had what was called
amusing lee than american jobs creation act which did no such thing several law
passed
a lot of these companies did not hire people u_s_a_ fire
it was about job creation it was about lining their pockets
well they lobbied for that and spent a considerable amount of money to do that
it was actually
to repatriate their money back here in the u_s_ that money abroad they want to
bring you back here but
and pay very little taxes are paid thirty five percent
they want to pay in the ball part of about five percent
and they got their way
you know what rate of return they got on the money they invested in politicians
twenty-two
thousand percent
rate of return
gee i wonder why corporations and big business wants a by politicians
invaded be immediate nafta
we allow legalized bribery here in the united states of america
and you'd be a sucker not to participate now
but a former bribery is
now i just campaign donations and not just lobbyists but hey if your
correctional staffer
or you're actually congressman a senator
wait till you get out of office
and how we greece europe
in fact over the last ten years that we know the numbers for from two thousand
one to twenty eleven five thousand four hundred congressional staffers and close
to four hundred members
left capitol the gulf of reliance
and it was the guys who admitted
not like newt gingrich who says he's a historical advisor to companies well
please
so that's a huge number on the stand four hundred members of the house and
there's only five hundred thirty five members now of course number ten years
as a larger number before hundred to give me a sense of perspective
is endchar
and trunk of those folks
what pay increase
that those people get when they
left the actual congressmen senators
to become lobbyists
they are paying crease of one thousand four hundred and fifty two percent on
aff
she ever wonder why they do
exactly what big business tells them to do it
because that's how they get reelected that setting at their funding for their
elections
and that's how they get paid
was saying leave office
in the rest of the world might not quite be aware
americans are aware
in fact when they ask
the what is your top
priorities in the top runs in the country
at at this election
jobs came in number one but just behind
the issued that nobody talks about none of the media asked about in this
election cycle one of them did stories on
something of course both parties and both candidates should not discuss
number two overall
was corruption
eighty seven percent of the country
ease seven percent had never seen number that large says that a money influence
our paul
and at least of corruption
so we know it here in the united states you might not know all the details that
i just gave you but we know what it almost as we see it everyday they take
the money from the lobbyists
and they do exactly what the lobbyists
asking to do when they don't give a damn what we think
the polls and
and and how we vote
is ignored immediately after the election ballot the world might not know
that
in my come as a surprise to them
that in america
bribery is done on a professional level
that it's not something that is underhanded and you're right a little
you give me a little money in an envelope in a stash in a way no we
legalize that'd
and institutionalize that we made it systemic
so it has taken over the whole
body of politics in america
this is how it works and that's how the american people get screwed this is how
we lost our democracy
you know what i think idea i have a we need to get a constitutional amendment
to fix this to get money out of politics so that big business cannot spend are
limited money
corrupting our politicians
doing crony capitalism and so that we publicly finance elections so the
politicians work for all us
is so their donors
wolpe dash pack dot com
the website that we set up to try to fight back
we'll be joined us in that fight this is the number one issue in america