Money In politics= corruption

804brown

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Details of mayoral race bribery scheme implicating state Sen. Malcolm Smith and Councilman Dan Halloran shine light on devious tactics - NY Daily News

Former SEC chief Mary Schapiro joins D.C. consulting firm - latimes.com

Mary Jo White and the Incestuous Mutually Beneficial Relationship Between Regulators and Wall Street

Its not ideology that is killing our democracy. It is the revolving door between govt/regulators and big business. It is the huge sums of money that goes into campaigns and the favors they receive in return. Until we get real campaign finance reform which takes all the private money out of elections (PUBLIC FINANCING IS THE ANSWER) our democracy will continue to suffer.
 

wkmac

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Its not ideology that is killing our democracy. It is the revolving door between govt/regulators and big business. It is the huge sums of money that goes into campaigns and the favors they receive in return. Until we get real campaign finance reform which takes all the private money out of elections (PUBLIC FINANCING IS THE ANSWER) our democracy will continue to suffer.

Kevin Carson's latest at C4SS speaks somewhat up this alley concerning the "limited state" Koch Bros.

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.
One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

The State represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.I look upon an increase of the power of the State with the greatest fear, because although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality, which lies at the root of all progress. We know of so many cases where men have adopted trusteeship, but none where the State has really lived for the poor.

Gandhi
 
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