1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
Like so many others, she has used insider knowledge to enrich herself. Personal wealth went from $700,000 to over $21 MILLION.
www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-tay...
Like so many others, she has used insider knowledge to enrich herself. Personal wealth went from $700,000 to over $21 MILLION.
www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-tay...
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
—FDR, 1936
—FDR, 1936
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?
Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income.
Who agrees it’s time to scrap the cap?
But Operation Warp Speed would have happened no matter who the President was, even a moron like him. And he knew Kennedy was a crackpot. It was a feature, not a glitch.
But Operation Warp Speed would have happened no matter who the President was, even a moron like him. And he knew Kennedy was a crackpot. It was a feature, not a glitch.
Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.
(In truth, I think that ship has sailed)
(In truth, I think that ship has sailed)
Be warned: this spells doom for our consumer spending-driven economy.
Be warned: this spells doom for our consumer spending-driven economy.
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