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George Carlin:
“The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land, they own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they’ve got the judges in their back pockets, and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls!”
Fed Loans to Big Banks Undisclosed to Congress:
“Right now. we have a system where the government is incredibly entangled in the financial system by having to provide this support. And if you believe in a free market system, as most here in the United States do, you want that to be provided by the private sector, not by the government. And the way to do that is to have shareholders bear the risk. And right now, shareholders bear some of the risk but much of it is born by the government.”
“If you have this backstop reliance on the government to bail you out in the event that you take risks that turn out to go sour, this induces you to take risks that you wouldn’t otherwise, it’s one of these heads I win, tails you loose.”
http://bloom.bg/w5fmmj (Bloomberg)
Net Worth of Congress Rises by 25% Since Financial Crisis
Dylan Ratigan interviews former Texas state Judge, Catherine Crier about the personal wealth of our congress-people and the institutional corruption in the judicial system:
Right now, both Democrats and Republicans are serving the big corporate givers. They’re not serving the constituents that sent them to Congress. If we don’t have a representative government, it’s over, right there. Done deal.
What will it take to limit the role of money in politics?
Listen to the November 1st podcast of Rose Aguilar’s radio show, Your Call, in which she talks with Lawrence Lessig about solutions to the problem the corruption of congress by money and corporate interests.
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