Senator Bernie Sanders dishes on the corruption and collusion between major corporations, Wall Street lobbyists, and Congress.
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Who Owns Congress?
Over a year ago, we suffered the most significant financial collapse since the Great Depression, and the result of that is massive unemployment and underemployment. People lost their savings. People lost their homes. Now, despite the greed and illegal behavior of Wall Street, there is a massive effort to make sure that Congress does nothing about it. You know what? That might end up being the result.
How does it happen that Wall Street was able to convince Congress to deregulate their industry, to be in a position to bring the economy down? How does it happen that they are able to fend off serious efforts in Congress to try to re-regulate the financial institutions to protect the American people? Here’s the answer: In the last 10 years, Wall Street and big financial institutions have spent over $5 billion in campaign contributions and in lobbying activities. It doesn’t matter whether you are a Democrat or a Republican; if you have any influence they are going to go after you.
5 Comments
volumptuous"US Congress Bought & Paid For?"
Why is this a question?
YogiI love how easily he breaks this down and points it out. It's not allowed to be talked about yet it's so obvious. This is not a functioning democracy.
GenjiKilpatrickgrr. a million questions fill my head when it comes to these topics.
If all of us don't like this. Why does it still happen?
Humans are not as smart as we assume.
NordlichReiter>> ^volumptuous:
"US Congress Bought & Paid For?"
Why is this a question?
Something I agree with.
Stormsinger>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:
grr. a million questions fill my head when it comes to these topics.
If all of us don't like this. Why does it still happen?
Humans are not as smart as we assume.
It's NOT "all of us" that don't like this...and it's obvious when you actually think about it. Those in the top 1%, who control the vast majority of the wealth, DO like it this way...they can, and do, buy all the advantages (and laws) they need to keep an ever-increasing share of the wealth for themselves.
The saddest part is that, by the very nature of our system, this likely can't be changed without an actual revolution...because the very people who would have to make that change, are the ones who currently benefit.
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