Following the money trail: Corporations bought this president.

[feistydem]

Some graphs on industry donations to the 2 major American political parties from Open Secrets (www.opensecrets.org) that really clarify to whom this government belongs --and it ain't us, folks.

Republicans receive significantly more donations in everything but the communications, legal and labor industry sectors --where Democrats take the lead.

I'm sure this won't really shock many of you, but the sheer numbers in financial contributions are pretty shocking. It seems pretty clear to me that we won't get our country back until we get Big Business out of politics. The incentive to 'buy' a president to do their bidding is just too great.

This dragon needs to be slayed before it gets any bigger!

Each of these links will open the corresponding graph. Donations to Republicans are in Red and to Democrats in Blue.


AGRIBUSINESS:

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus_gif6.asp?ind=A

CONSTRUCTION:

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus_gif6.asp?ind=C

DEFENSE:

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus_gif6.asp?ind=D

ENERGY:

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus_gif6.asp?ind=E

FINANCE:

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus_gif6.asp?ind=F

HEALTH:

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus_gif6.asp?ind=H

TRANSPORTATION:

http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus_gif6.asp?ind=M

[alittlelark]

1. WOW....bookmarking, and e-mailing

Thanks for that!

[slay]

2. I totally agree...

We will never again have a government that works for the people as long as our elected representatives can be bought by corporations.