To bad the supreme court ruled you can't set a limit on money spent to campaign

Hillary proved that money does not buy an election.

 

That’s why we have social safety net programs.

 

No it’s not why. Those statistics are with those “social safety net programs” that the criminals in the US government want eliminated.

 

Hillary spent 1 BILLION DOLLARS. What's your problem? Who's cozy with Goldman Sachs?

 

And you make my point. “Poverty” in the US is not a bad state. Try poverty in Ethiopia.

 

Privation in the US is living in a resort to privation in Ethiopia.

 

Contributions from cumulative union dues are not representative of ~ 1/3 of union members. Corporations make very little political contributions and they spread those contributions around.

 

Yes, ~ $770M was spent by the Hillary campaign and ~ $400M was spent by Trump.

 

You don’t have any point, just a straw man. Poverty in Ethiopia doesn’t change poverty in the US among the elderly. No one was comparing nor was it part of any discussion.

 

That’s the truth. It’s much better to be at 250% of the poverty level in the US than in Ethiopia, no ??

 

It certainly puts perspective on it. The definition of poverty is a political football. The war on poverty has failed and only succeeded in creating a relatively constant % of the population dependent on government programs.

 

No. Why would it be ??

 

Being a shareholder in a corporation is voluntary. If one doesnt like how the corporation manages its money and affairs they can simply sell their share in the company.

Banning political spending by corporations would also ban political spending by unions, special interest groups, and anyone wanting to give a couple of dollars to a political action cause. Who would be left to disseminate political information? Only the individual's own campaign and the so called news media.

 

What conversation ?? The contention is that poverty in the US is life threatening. It is not. In Ethiopia however poverty is life threatening.

 

That’s ridiculous.

Almost as ridiculous as claiming that pointing out that a post is an example of Trump Derangement Syndrome is the same as calling a person deranged.

 

Not if a law was properly written. The only entities who vote are human beings, not groups or corporations. The only ones who should have the legal capability to engage in political spending should be those who vote. And even then there should be reasonable limits otherwise billionaires could outspend ordinary voters. The same should be true for lobbies. If The People are supposed to be the masters of their government they should be the only entities involved. And because they aren’t we have a corporatocracy (fascist) form of government and not the Constitutional Republic guaranteed by the Constitution.