Charts: Wall Street Blows All Other Political Donors Away

What about the mighty unions with their trillions of dollars!?

That is where the money is.

Science Chic wrote: We will not get our democracy back until we fix this.

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Charts: Wall Street Blows All Other Political Donors Away
—By Gavin Aronsen
| Thu Jan. 26, 2012

Wall Street's outsized political influence is no secret, but some new data shows just how much it's ballooned. According to the Sunlight Foundation, campaign spending by elite donors from the finance, insurance, and real estate sector has jumped 700 percent in the past two decades, far outpacing individual donations from all other industries.

I agree 100 percent.

But the dirty criminal hippies of the Occupy movement won't be the ones to fix it.

The Liberals GOP Twin wrote:

Science Chic wrote: We will not get our democracy back until we fix this.

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/01/wal ... n-spending
Charts: Wall Street Blows All Other Political Donors Away
—By Gavin Aronsen
| Thu Jan. 26, 2012

Wall Street's outsized political influence is no secret, but some new data shows just how much it's ballooned. According to the Sunlight Foundation, campaign spending by elite donors from the finance, insurance, and real estate sector has jumped 700 percent in the past two decades, far outpacing individual donations from all other industries.

I agree 100 percent.

But the dirty criminal hippies of the Occupy movement won't be the ones to fix it.

Proof that propaganda works.

And why have corporate donations increased so radically? Goverment spends even more money than they do with a blank checkbook and they want a piece of the action.

Limit the size of goverment and lobbying won't be as cost effective. I just read about a program to supply the poor with free mobile phones and minutes. Think some corporation lobbied to get this done? And want to bet the goverment is paying a lot of money, probably more than commercial rates.

But the powerfull Unions collecting $23/month from their dwindling memberships control our politics don't they? Thats what I heard on FOX news..

He's got a real hard-on about poor people having access to cellphones... Have you noticed? (Nothing to see here, folks, move along...)

Vice Lord wrote: But the powerfull Unions collecting $23/month from their dwindling memberships control our politics don't they? Thats what I heard on FOX news..

Union donations wield enough weight that SEIU president got access to the White House for months. Even the GE boss doesn't get that.

Is that because of donations or potential votes?