Reply #100: Believe me ,I am not the one that doesn't know how things are done.

[saracat]

I used to believe as you do.The Bush years and the actions of contemporary Democrats have convinced me otherwise. In my own family of liberal Dem's who were part of Roosevelt's brain trust my own grandmother told me how she would carry $10,000 in the heel of her pump and pretend it was broken in order for a prominent statesman to remove the money to ensure legislation. I used to be shocked by the stories and hoped we lived in a different world. The legislation that money bought still stands today.

Politics isn't nice. And the reasons most powerful people are involved isn't altruistic.