corporations having their way. The Gulf oil spill proves that! Every governor of a Gulf coast state is bought off. Obama is bought off. Do you remember the mood when we watched that oil coming out of that riser everyday before the mid-term elections? People were saying it was Obama's Katrina until they came out with the 20 billion dollar fund. It was not Obama's idea, BP came to him with Ken Feinberg and this lie about a fund with 20 billion in it. The Judge (before BP got to him) later signed an Order stating that Feinberg had never been "Independant" and was always BP's representative. Obama gave BP the use of the Coast Guard who parroted everything BP told them to say, and actually used their planes to spray the dispersant to hide the oil from, you guessed it, our government!
Big corporations buy off opposition where they can, and bury the rest. The only solution to these problems is, COMPLETE CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM! Corporations OWN our government plain and simple! You can talk about Repugs and Democrats all day, but know this, there is a reason no one from Wall Street has been arrested. No one goes down unless they want them to. BP offered up a couple of minor players, but no one who caused the spill got arrested. Where have the Democrats been on these issues?
EVERYONE NEEDS TO KEEP DEMANDING COMPLETE CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM OVER AND OVER ON EVERY ISSUE ON DU OR ANYWHERE ELSE!!!!!! Until this happens, we can continue to get screwed. Climate change will not be stopped, social safety nets will continue to erode, and we will never have Universal Health Care!
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