Its going to get worse. The SCOTUS is hearing another couple of election funding cases: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-case-could-give-wealthy-donors-more-latitude-in-elections/2013/10/03/26a66d82-2ad4-11e3-b139-029811dbb57f_story.html
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > No one gets elected without the money from the lobbyists so expecting > politicians to listen to the people they are supposed to work for instead > of the special interests that put them in office is a waste of time. And > after the Supreme Court handed the power to the corporations with the > Citizens United decision, any power the people ever had is gone. > Government "of the people, by the people and for the people" was never > anything more than a line in a speech. > > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:45 AM, Bruce Sorge <sor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Maybe, over time we would have a cause and effect type of outcome. In > > other words, enough of them get fired for being the way they are now, and > > over time the message sinks in that you really need to do what you were > > elected to do rather than what your lobbyists tell you to do. > > > > > > On Oct 4, 2013, at 6:34 AM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > The problem with "fire them all" is there are no viable candidates to > > > replace "them". > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:367603 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
