We are not a well-governed society

by Jack Lohman
(Wisc)

We are not a well-governed society, and that's our problem. We are at the mercy of corporations run for profits, enabled by a privatized congress that shares in those profits. Our problem is NOT government, it IS that government is owned by the special interests that want in the taxpayer's pockets.

As a former CEO my company would not have survived if I had a board of directors who took money on the side and gave away company assets in return. Our country can't either.

Nothing is going to change until we have public funding of campaigns. The McCain-Feingold bill was watered down by McConnell and DeLay or it would have done the job. The Financial Reform bill will turn out like ObamaCare, a giveaway to the bankers. What is it about political bribes do we not understand?

If politicians are going to be beholden to their funders, those funders should be the taxpayers. And at $5 per taxpayer per year it would be a bargain. Even at 100 times that. We MUST lobby our senators and representative to co-sponsor the bill at:
http://www.fairelectionsnow.org/more/summary

Jack Lohman …
http://MoneyedPoliticians.net
jelohman@gmail.com