It’$ Election Time in The U$A

It’s Autumn and it’s election time. You can just smell the money in the air. Yard signs clutter the roads telling us nothing about he candidate, yet getting them elected. What may have been democratic at one time - is now the most elaborate farce on this side of the hemisphere.


According to The Wichita Eagle, last week:

“People and businesses with Wichita addresses have given at least $140,000 since late July in large donations to the two attorney general campaigns, according to The Eagle's review of donations of $1,000 or more.
Businesses and individuals can only contribute $2,000 per reporting period to a statewide candidate. But several people in one family can give the maximum donation, as can several businesses -- even if they are owned by the same company.
It's common for several maximum contributions to come from one company and its subsidiaries.
Companies owned by Koch Industries Inc., for example, gave at least $12,000 to Kline.
"We give to candidates regardless of political affiliation, and our support consistently has been with candidates that are open to market-based solutions to public policy issues," said Katie Stavinoha, a Koch spokeswoman.
Charles Koch and Koch-affiliated companies have given at least $18,000 to Kline since 2002. Koch companies also have funded Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and at least 20 other candidates.”

In addition to this, according to the Idiot factor:

"Mr. Tiahrt knows how to raise money. He doesn’t know anything else, but he does know how to raise money. And there are many rich corporation that want puppet stooges to represent our districts. Koch Industries has rained the most campaign cash, almost $121,000, on Tiahrt. They get what they want. We get boneheads who don’t know anything about politics or what’s in the best interest of their own constituents."


In addition, Since 1990, Big Oil has given more than $190 million to members of Congress and 75% ($142,635,314!) of those donations have gone to Republicans.1 Those donations guarantee an energy policy that serves the oil industry over the public interest. Until our representatives stop taking oil money, it's going to be hard to make progress on global warming and clean energy alternatives.

This is just the tip of the ice-burg. Big money is the main element in all elections. We have a system of $1 one vote. Yes you can vote on election day and it may make a small difference, but the real decisions are made by the large corporations with large amounts of money.