Specific to explain big trend this season in the fundraising campaign is forgotten. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court ruled that everyone is allowed to make as much money as they want with anyone they choose and absolutely nobody needs to know about it. The result was all American deep knee in the free oxymoronic a very expensive spectacle for all.
In a flash, we, the people became Helen Keller. Blind. Deaf. And dumb. With an emphasis on the latter. Because nobody cares. Di dah. Makes no difference where these covert deception dollars tsunami originate: nut religious jobs, trade unions of public service, defense contractors or benefactors foreigners trailing behind apparent radiated nuclear leaky waste puddles. At the coast. On the shore.Paulie Shore.SHO nuff is fine.
This reform has made us completely ignorant that focus Prodigals group spending how much money for any candidate or why when or where he has given. And our collective response is less than a whale rain. Orwell was right: Unenlightenment is its strength.And it is the understanding of what it is like to be a champignon.Conservés dark compost and fed. Us enjoy delicious know influence peddlers bewilderment are scurrying veiled as cash shady crevices cockroaches and light switch is broken.
Happened was, way back in the era of bad, Nixon committed policy will make cardinal sin abuse of funds of the campaign, so after Watergate, Congress has been shamed the replacement hard with soft money slowly transformed into cash money but now opened the floodgates and this wonderful foggy silver is morphing into magic money soon to turn into money in figures of Steve Jobs on a way to beam ads directly in our heads. And if this perspective drive you right in the Centre of Crazy town, then you were hitching a ride in his suburb in the first place.
There are many reasons why patrons would remain hidden. They are shy. Afflicted unsightly rash.Currently enrolled in the program for the protection of the témoins.Rupture in new toupee. Still have not recovered this appalling spill in Gstaad. Still have not recovered this appalling spill in the Gulf. But few of these excuses contribute to the public interest.
We are painfully aware that our politicians are, how to put this gently, beholden to some great contributeurs.Une so polite to say "boulevards with appetite hippos in heat." But now the ante has been raised over the ear of a giraffe.More silver ghost means promotes more rewarded by a broader attached to the wide space at the public trough forcing the rest of us in the crowd short rutted late.Knee pads are destined to become standard issue behind each Office of the Congrès.Si they are not already.
Tours is, we are seeing only the tip of the iceberg donor secret and fragmented state ship's wheel.If the flooding of the locality of the currency proves successful, it not enough lifeboats in the fleet in the Pacific to rescue us from these perilous waters.If you want to boost your wings .a water resistant sharks one thing puzzles me: If ignorance is bliss, why don't I more happy?
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