Bernie Sanders Exposes the 26 Billionaires who are Buying the 2012 Election
http://www.politicususa.com/bernie-sanders-exposes-26-billionaires-buying-2012-election.htmlBernie Sanders Exposes the 26 Billionaires who are Buying the 2012 Election
By: Jason Easley
July 24th, 2012see
In his new report, America For Sale: A Report on Billionaires Buying the 2012 Election, Sen. Bernie Sanders named names and called out the billionaires who using Citizens United to buy our democracy.
In front of a Senate panel today, Sen. Bernie Sanders outed the 26 billionaires who are members of 23 billionaire families that are using Citizens United to buy elections. Sen. Sanders estimated that these 26 billionaires are the tip of the iceberg. “My guess is that number is really much greater because many of these contributions are made in secret. In other words, not content to own our economy, the 1 percent want to own our government as well.”
Sanders explained how the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision put the government up for sale, “What the Supreme Court did in Citizens United is to say to these same billionaires and the corporations they control: ‘You own and control the economy, you own Wall Street, you own the coal companies, you own the oil companies. Now, for a very small percentage of your wealth, we’re going to give you the opportunity to own the United States government.’”
Sen. Sanders also did the last thing the billionaires wanted. He called them out by name.
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With his report today, Sen. Sanders has made it more difficult for thieves of liberty to keep operating in the night. We now have a list of names and we know what they are trying to do to our government. Sen. Sanders is one of the few federally elected officials who has the courage to talk about these people in public.
Most of the members of the House and Senate are too afraid to speak of, much less take on, the billionaires. Even those decent members of Congress who might speak out against them have been terrified into silence by threats of multimillion dollar negative ad buys that will run against the incumbent back home.
Bernie Sanders is displaying a brand of political courage that is sorely lacking in American politics today, and he needs you to stand with him to protect our liberties, our freedoms, and to battle to return the government back to the American people.
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Bernie Sanders is such a fine Senator and I wish there were more of him!!!
Thank-you Bernie for doing what others refuse to do!
And he goes on to say that those 26 are only the tip of the iceberg.
Jeez......
Like the 1% of the time: Royals and Lords.
July 20, 1776
Mr. Thomas Jefferson
Continental Congress
Independence Hall
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Mr. Jefferson:
We have read your "Declaration of Independence" with great interest. Certainly, it represents a considerable undertaking, and many of your statements do merit serious consideration. Unfortunately, the Declaration as a whole fails to meet recently adopted specifications for proposals to the Crown, so we must return the document to you for further refinement. The questions which follow might assist you in your process of revision.
In your opening paragraph you use the phrase "the Laws of Nature and Nature's God." What are these laws? In what way are they the criteria on which you base your central arguments? Please document with citations from the recent literature.
In the same paragraph you refer to the "opinions of mankind." Whose polling data are you using? Without specific evidence, it seems to us, the "opinions of mankind" are a matter of opinion.
You hold certain truths to be "self-evident." Could you please elaborate. If they are as evident as you claim, then it should not be difficult for you to locate the appropriate supporting statistics.
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" seem to be the goals of your proposal. These are not measurable goals. If you were to say that "among these is the ability to sustain an average life expectancy in six of the 13 colonies of at least 55 years, and to enable all newspapers in the colonies to print news without outside interference, and to raise the average income of the colonists by 10 percent in the next 10 years," these would be measurable goals. Please clarify.
You state that "whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government. ..." Have you weighed this assertion against all the alternatives? Or is it predicated solely on the baser instincts?
Your description of the existing situation is quite extensive. Such a long list of grievances should precede the statement of goals, not follow it.
Your strategy for achieving your goal is not developed at all. You state that the colonies "ought to be Free and Independent States," and that they are "Absolved from All Allegiance to the British Crown." Who or what must change to achieve this objective? In what way must they change? What resistance must you overcome to achieve the change? What specific steps will you take to overcome the resistance? How long will it take? We have found that a little foresight in these areas helps to prevent careless errors later on.
Who among the list of signatories will be responsible for implementing your strategy? Who conceived it? Who provided the theoretical research? Who will constitute the advisory committee? Please submit an organization chart.
You must include an evaluation design. We have been requiring this since Queen Anne's War.
What impact will your program have? Your failure to include any assessment of this inspires little confidence in the long-range prospects of your undertaking.
Please submit a PERT diagram, an activity chart, and an itemized budget.
We hope that these comments prove useful in revising your "Declaration of Independence."
Best Wishes,
Lord North
"Who among the list of signatories will be responsible for implementing your strategy? Who conceived it? Who provided the theoretical research? Who will constitute the advisory committee? Please submit an organization chart." like the one percenter's ask the OWS movement!
An honest man with guts and a genuine public servant. 
Sorry, iPhones don't do this so easily.
R&
and sent the link to everyone on my email lists. What else can we do?
1. Sheldon Adelson: casino owner and possible money launderer for foreign businessmen in places like China. What better way to funnel illegal foreign money into U.S. politics? “Lose” big at Adelson’s Macau casino, and he sends the money to Washington. Adelson is also trying to buy immunity from federal prosecution, because he paid out illegal bribes to foreign officials to get his casinos built.
2. The Koch Brothers: trying to buy more corporate welfare. This family, which got its start drilling oil for Stalin in Communist USSR sees no reason that it cannot get the USA to support it in the lifestyle to which it has grown accustomed. The cut down government owned trees using government built roads in order to create product for Georgia-Pacific and Dixie Cup. They graze their cattle on federal land for free. And they were paid a ton of money by W. to stockpile oil in the strategic oil reserve. They are buying the right to continue to manipulate oil prices for short term gain----and long term disaster for the U.S. manufacturing, transportation , travel and retail sectors.
3. Jim Walton wants Wal-Mart to be the ONLY store in town—and the only employer, too. He doesn’t want to have to pay overtime or provide benefits. And he will do anything to keep the unions out.
4. Harold Simmons runs something euphemistically called “NL”---for “National Lead.” He does not see why he has to dip into his own pocket to pay to clean up Superfund sites around the country. What is a little lead going to do to your baby?
5. Peter Thiel thinks that democracy went downhill when women were given the right to vote. He is a hedge fund manager and a venture capitalist. Enough said.
6. Jerrold Perenchio owns Univision, the largest Spanish language channel in the country. He lobbied heavily against an education bill in California designed to teach children English—presumably because it would have cut into his audience share. The GOP’s efforts to dismantle our public education system will allow his business to grow.
7. Kenneth Griffin: Another hedge fund manager.
8. James Simons: yet another hedge fund manager.
9. Julian Robertson: Eeks! It’s attack of the hedge fund managers!
10. Robert Rowling Oilman from Texas.
11. John Paulson: hedge fund manager.
12. Richard and J.W. Marriott: Mormons.
13. James Davis: founder of Major League Lacrosse. Wants more millionaires.
14. Harold Hamm Another oilman.
15. Kenny Trout. Does he mean Kenny Troutt, communications executive? No idea what he wants. Maybe another company since he sold his.
16. Louis Bacon Another hedge fund manager! That make six so far. Let’s hear it for the B Ark! As in...
Golgafrincham is a red semi-desert planet that is home of the Great Circling Poets of Arium and a species of particularly inspiring lichen. Its people decided it was time to rid themselves of an entire useless third of their population, and so the descendants of the Circling Poets concocted a story that their planet would shortly be destroyed in a great catastrophe. (It was apparently under threat from a "mutant star goat". The useless third of the population (consisting of hairdressers, tired TV producers*, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, management consultants, telephone sanitisers and the like) were packed into the B-Ark, one of three purported giant Ark spaceships, and told that everyone else would follow shortly in the other two. The other two thirds of the population, of course, did not follow and "led full, rich and happy lives until they were all suddenly wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_in_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
17. Bruce Kovner Hedge fund.
18. Warren Stephens Investment banking.
19. David Tepper Wait for it….Hedge fund! What are all the hedge fund managers and investment bankers buying with their millions? Immunity from prosecution for the part they played in destroying our economy?
20. Samuel Zell Destroyed the LA Times. Sees the mortgage crisis as a great way to get more people into his rental properties.
In April 2008, Zell made a controversial comment about the subprime mortgage crisis at a conference in Los Angeles, where he stated, "This country needs a cleansing. We need to clean out all those people who never should have bought in the first place, and not give them sympathy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Zell
21. Leslie Wexner. Controls The Limited and Victoria’s Secrets which use slave labor.
22. Charles Schwab Investment broker.
23. Kelcy Warren. Natural gas and propane.
Note that 10 of the top 23 are hedge fund managers or investment bankers. These are the folks who destroyed our economy, and now they want to do it all over again.
Sarah Jessica Parker! Barbara Streisand!! Barney Frank . .. BARNEY FRAAAAAAANK!!!!
Add Plastic Mannequin Steve Wynn to that list.
Seriously, dude, the Madame Tussaud's treatment doesn't make you look younger, it makes you look creepier. EEEEEEEECH.
K & R.
