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BR: And AMEX and VISA.

Federated Media (the ad firm I use) is well aware of what gets discussed/covered here.

It turns out the advertisers dont care about the content, only the eyeballs/demographics of the readers.

http://reason.com/blog/2008/10/16/now-playing-at-reasontv-former

Regards,
TDL

Who is cleanest of them all that would be Ron Paul!

Bought and Paid For

Lobbyists from the financial industry have paid hundreds of millions to Congress and the Obama administration. They have bought virtually all of the key congress members and senators on committees overseeing finances and banking.

This is easy to confirm in black-and-white. See for yourself: here, here, here, here, here and here.

Manhattan Institute senior fellow Ni

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/10/bought-and-paid-for.html

Our nation’s moral fiber has devolved to the point where the majority don’t know the value of delayed gratification. As we approach the point where less than 50% of Americans pay income tax, the nanny state is here to stay.

Therefore, corporate lobbying should be made unlawful.

As an added point, what happens when corporations are owned by foreigners and are meddling with lawmakers, isn’t that the most unpatriotic thing you ever saw?

As for McCain, Frank Rich had something to say about that “maverick” today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/opinion/11rich.html
This guy has said everything and its contrary and is still somewhat listened to.
Those who want you to believe absurdities will make you commit atrocities said Voltaire, well thank you Mr McCain, you should be remembered as an artisan of the great American comedy taking place nowadays.

I’m not sure that I am incorrect:

2008 Labor PAC Contributions: $66.37 million
http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/sector.php?cycle=2008&txt=P01

2008 Finance, Insurance and Real Estate Contributions: $62.6 million
http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/sector.php?cycle=2008&txt=F01

I’m not pretending that the financial industry does not have a big impact in Washington, but if we’re talking money, and Democrats, who currently run the legislative and executive branches, then labor unions have even more influence. So, I still think the statements by the two Democrats you mention are highly overblown.

Caveat: I am only looking at PAC money at the site I mention. If there are other places to look, then I am happy to be educated.

Turn off the volume, and Jack Welch looks like “The Joker”, in Batman.

And who the hell is he to tell the world about the economy, when he was the one responsible for turning GE into a lending institution in the first place, taking out a billion for himself on results that would eventually devastate the shareholders?

He, along with all these other Jokers, ought to be sued and forced to give back everything they were paid in compensation, and left homeless.

Instead, McCain Feingold is likely to be watered down further this session. I don’t see things changing until we get a Supreme Court willing to reverse decisions that equate money with free speech and corporations with living human beings. The likelihood of that happening is next to nil, given that the court–like the rest of our government–has become more “corporatist” over the past 30 years.