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=> Billionaire Democracy

Posted by pancho (Guest) - Tuesday, November 27 2007, 2:54:29 (CET)
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Micheal Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, is a billionaire and Time Magazine wants to know if he's going to run for president.

Our democracy started out as a people's democracy with our politicians being people like us, who could relate to our lives and problems...all our officials were also more or less folks just like us...even TV newsmen and reporters were of our own economic class...politicians used to be mostly lawyers with money people backing them up...but they were still ordinary folk.

All that's changing and for the worse. It's the common failure of democracy; the wealthy eventually take control and make laws to favor themselves. It can be avoided, but only if people come to their senses. Campaign finance reform was one chance...but we don't seem interested.

Now we have the business class, millionaires and billionaires too, pushing the politicians and statesmen aside to take over direct control of Congress and the White House...even the newspaper reporters are now millionaires with portfolios dependent on the business class and the favors they extract from our democracy. Representatives of corporations USED to pay lobbyists...then they were invited into Congress and the White House to draw up legislation themselves which was supposed to regulate their industries for the benefit of the people...all that has changed, made more streamlined now that corporate types are the actual legislators...it's all legal, but dangerous.

Go ahead, vote. Vote for whichever billionaire you think understands and cares for you best...and has your interests at heart...instead of his own...just remember that by caring only for his own interests is exactly how he got that billion...or ten million, not by thinking about you. If you believe he's going to Washington now to look after YOU...and not increase his own portfolio...okay. Faith is wonderful.

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