yeah I often talk to you about money in politics and how important it is
and sometimes it's obvious it's like oil subsidies and the oil companies give the
money
the politicians and then they get billions of dollars every year in
subsidies
the healthcare companies give tremendous amount of money %uh to the politicians
especially drug companies
and then they literally kill off the competition you can't we import drugs
they extend their patents
I you can even negotiate a drug prices that stuff is obvious
but in case a national security might not be as obvious sometimes like for
example
we just have the vote on justina marshes amendment as amendment that said then
essays doing
%uh intruding into our privacy too much you doing blanket moral a surveillance
which they shouldn't do
on all Americans now that seems like a point love
ideology philosophy and it was really bipartisan it was a vote that was
nearly split in the middle between Republicans and Democrats now they wound
up losing 205 217
this Abbas 11 on that but what's really interesting is
how much defense industry has donated
to the people who voted on different sites this is a great little thing that
map light did
first while they explain members of congress who voted
to voted not to rein in an essay phone spying
received more than twice as much defense industry campaign
cash as those voting to n the spying
what an amazing coincidence again remember there's not a Republican or
Democrat think
spokes a lot of problems democrats on both sides but when you look at all that
wall of the one thing that matters is it turns out the guys who voted
to continue you spying get twice as much money from the defense industry
that does the spying will you look at that
in fact I love this bar graph here that they did
average defense industry spending and contributions
on the two different assess a vos said the no vote on the amendment that was
arraigned in that essay
hun average they got forty-one thousand dollars per
congressperson and the ones that the voted
YES on that amendment got over 18,000 does not like they didn't get anything
so but it's a hundred and twenty-two percent more for the guys who happen
to vote the right way in fact if s industry campaign contributions
to pro NSA spying lawmakers
just in the 2012 elections was
third Tina million dollars
he what's funny is
they give thirty million dollars they get just enough boats
from the guys they give more money to thing guess what happens
private contractors that dude NSA spying for example Booz Allen
gets six billion dollars
in government contracts now thirty million
as you make a lot of money when just one of those companies
get $6 billion in return and that's
how politics works in america it is become
open season its corruption that is legalize
systemic and raisin
everybody sees this and every looks the other way
now how often did you see in the cable news coverage to this story
this story about how much the congress people were paid
by the defense industry they were voting my guess is
you didn't see it at all in the mainstream media
because they never cover it their part the problem then up are the solution
our government has been sold off to the highest bidder
you know what I think
you know if you don't get a constitutional amendment to stop
this onslaught this lot of money pouring in
to buyer politicians your crazy if you think we live in a democracy
we are mean on an incredibly rare key
case we might win a voter to is that the rule that we have to work see no
he would be the exception we got throw here cuz we came close
and it might be that we only came close this vote because the defense industry
for got the bride the other half of Congress
enough believe me they'll fix that the next time around
so it is depressing the degree to which our government has been sold off
of course I think the answer is to get that amendment
you do through constitutional commissions so you don't have to rely
on any these corrupt politicians in Washington
if you want to find out more and you want to be part of the solution
you wanna fight back you want to get our government back.
go to wolf dash pack dot com
the only reason we start a Wolfpack issues I don't see any other way out
if I had sorta Wolfpack and they're doing great progress down also to
different states
and remember were not the minority
where the majority the power stab wish min
that systematically corrupted is that tiny minority
the overwhelming majority the country agrees with us we just can't get
anything done
because we run into a wall of my like we did in this case
and the reason I started and we spent all this time on it is because
if we didn't have it what the hell us are we supposed to do
I was was his bow our heads and say oh yes oh congratulations
I guess you bought our congressmen so
have added cost do whatever the hell you like we're screwed anyway
you gotta fight back it's your only hope