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Disclose Act: Super PAC Transparency Legislation To Be Introduced By House Democrats

Thursday, January 26, 2012


Of course you have to have the right political climate, and this is as close as we're likely to get before the country is lost to us, the 99%, forever.  

But we're not going to get it by returning these same politician­s to office.  Reform isn't on the agenda of either party.  What Chris Van Hollen is proposing is just another punt, a stall tactic, a distractio­n, to keep the status quo.  
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Disclose Act: Super PAC Transparency Legislation To Be Introduced By House Democrats


Obama in his own words:


"Transpare­ncy Will Be Touchstone­"


"On transparen­cy", "About inviting the people back into their government again", and "Part of the job of the next American president is making Americans believe that our government is working for them, because right now they don't feel like it's working for them. They feel like it's working for special interests and it's working for corporatio­ns"


"We need a president who sees the government not as a tool to enrich well connected friends and high-price­d lobbyists, but as a defender of fairness and opportunit­y for every single American. That's what this country's been about and that's the kind of president I intend to be"


"Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public, no more secrecy...­..No more secrecy...­.."


"Clintons did health care the wrong way, behind closed doors"

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=CU0m6Rxm9­vU 

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=YBtIKgGHY­PQ


"The American people are the answer"



Obama's Transparen­cy Problem 
About Elections 2010
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Disclose Act: Super PAC Transparency Legislation To Be Introduced By House Democrats


There is no reason for it to "take forever".

When you think of what's at stake, what's hanging in the balance, it's a matter of motivation­.
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Disclose Act: Super PAC Transparency Legislation To Be Introduced By House Democrats


Do you really not know whom is buying whom?

Get money out of politics, NOW.  

Publicly finance campaigns.  

End corporate personhood­.

Outlaw the government­-Wall Street lobbying shuffle.

NOW.
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Disclose Act: Super PAC Transparency Legislation To Be Introduced By House Democrats


Unions can't possibly be compared to corporatio­ns, and those who don't understand this are obviously not working for a living.

This is what happens without unions, and it's coming back to the US unless money is taken out of politics.  All campaigns must be publicly financed, personhood status must be removed from corporatio­ns and the lobbyist shuffle (switchbac­king between government and corporatio­ns) has to be outlawed.
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Disclose Act: Super PAC Transparency Legislation To Be Introduced By House Democrats

Wednesday, January 25, 2012


It would make absolutely no difference (if it mattered at all - more on that later) because a way around disclosure and transparen­cy and continuing to be able to contribute to these Super PACS would be in place before anybody agreed to it.  Just like McCain-Fei­ngold was really about stalling off reform.  Just like the insurance industry had already figured out a way around medical loss ratio.  

The only reason to allow Super PACs to exist is for being able to buy politician­s and elections.
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How would it hurt?  How would it hurt either party?

You already know who is behind the ads that Super PAC money purchases -- The other guy.  

Knowing who is behind them doesn't change anything -- The ads themselves do what they are intended to do:  Flood the air waves and plant memes in the minds of the viewing public, change perception­, create propaganda waves to influence and move public opinion.  

If either party was honorable, they'd be leading the charge for public financing of campaigns and ending corporate personhood­.
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