Some interesting facts from the video. The amount Goldman-Sachs spent on Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign this year was $583,000. On McCain, Goldman-Sacs spent $178,000.
The total campaign contributions from the real estate, insurance, and financial industries are as follows:
Obama: $25 million.
McCain: $22.1 million.
This profoundly disturbing page from comes from today’s Huffington Post. (The arrows are mine, of course.) We have in the Internet an instrument of mass communication that a founding father like Ben Franklin would have sold his last pair of bifocals to participate in, giving each of us unprecedented power to communicate with others. Yet in the face of yet another screwing from our representatives … our leaders … those corporate thugs in Congress, it’s all we can do to try our partisan best to elect yet another generation of these reprehensible criminals to Congress and the Presidency.
The Huffington Post finds it more important what Sarah Palin thinks of Katie Couric than the fact that their beloved Democrats just screwed us all to the tune of $700 Billion that the government doesn’t have. In fact, if you’ll read the smaller headlines on the bottom carefully, you’ll see that not only are they not expressing the public’s rage over this decision — they’re taking credit for it! And well they may, for it was Barney Frank and Chris Dodd who led the dizzying charge to abdicate their responsibility as an opposition party in their enthusiasm to sign on to yet another George Bush freedom fire drill.
The Difference Between The Two Parties We Fight So Hard Over
What’s the difference between Republicans and Democrats? Here it is in a nutshell:
Republicans are people with who admit they have business agendas, then screw you. Democrats don’t admit they have business agendas.
Of course, we need to exclude from that judgement those statesmen in both parties who voted against this heinous bit of legislation, and I especially commend folks like Ron Paul on the Right and Dennis Kuccinich on the left who voiced their emphatic opposition.
Indeed, I say with the same conviction as Kuccinich, though without his faith in his Party: Wake up, America! Wake up, America! Wake up, America!
Vote for a third party candidate in November. Better yet, vote for more than one. Because if you believe what the media tells you and vote for one of the other party because you don’t want to "throw your vote away", you’re missing an opportunity to weaken the conspiracy of corporations an utterly corrupt and reprehensible government. Vote for a third party candidate. It matters less which one you choose, than that you walk away from the one party system masquerading as a two party system. They divide us into red and blue to conquer us, for if the electorate ever moved past the facile partisanship of The Huffington Post and the Drudge Report, we’d have a government of the people, by the People, and for the people again.
Maybe the idea that we ever had such a government is just a dream we all had, but it’s a dream worth speaking and voting and fighting for.
Here’s how it happened in a nutshell.
If I still had any money left, I’d read this book.
Wake up. Wake up. Please wake up.