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Jnew28

(931 posts)
Wed Apr 6, 2016, 04:51 PM Apr 2016

How Money Has Bought Democracy.

http://stupidpartymathvmyth.com/1/post/2016/03/4657.html

"According to The New York Times, the committee that congressmen most covet is the one on financial services. This 61-seat committee has become so populated that extra nestled seats have had to be requisitioned to accommodate all those eager backsides drawn like magpies to the “30 pieces of silver”; well, actually that would not cut it, as it is more like $10,000,000 a year provided by the special interests, those titans of finance like Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Co.—yes, those same special interests who are overseen by The Committee on Financial Services."
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