Report Looks at the Money Behind Congressional Leaders

You don't get money for not singing and dancing. Anyone who takes corporate funds is beholden to the funders. Unfortunately that is the only way currently for people to get in office if they are not rich. No body likes public funding but 2 things would go far to remove the amount of funds needed to elect people. 1. term limits and 2. limits to campaigning to not more than 2 or 3 months before the election date. Term limits ensures rotation and changes and the time limit limits how much one can actually spend in a period of time with the limited airwaves capacity and media print

PAC contributions are bribes that congress legalized for themselves. As long as they continue to accept this money they are on-the-take and their integrity is compromised. They can call it what they want but it is what it is.

As my mom always says, you never see someone leave congress poorer than they came in. They all take the money.

The best government money can buy.

Let's call it like it is. Donations from all unions, special interest groups and corporations are LEGAL BRIBES!

So what? They all take money from big business. It is normal business practice. Business needs to satisfy every side, so they all get some. No big deal.

Is it any mystery that a former telco executive was picked to run the new GM? Monopolies and politicians are natural allies, joining forces to vacuum dollars out of the pockets of taxpayers and the captive clients of "regulated" industries.

Despite what our vaunted Supreme Court seems to believe, we must get unions, corporations, PACs and churches out of political funding. All campaigns should be funded by individual taxpayers with a very low limit on what any one indiviudal can contribute.