@Thom_Hartmann blog: Can Organized People Defeat Organized Money?
by Thom Hartmann,posted Sep 25 2012 3:18PM
For those who still don’t think Citizens United is having a profound effect on our democracy – consider this: 78% of the $465 million in outside spending so far this election was only made possible by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.
According to a new report by the Sunlight Foundation – SuperPACs have dished out $272 million so far on this year’s election – and trade organization and non-profits, which according to Citizens United don’t have to disclose their donors, have spent another $93 million so far. The consequences of this surge in outside spending are a lot more negative ads. More than 75% of the outside spending this election has been used for negative ads – with a lot more negative ads targeting President Obama than Mitt Romney.
As a Republicans know best, negative ads suppress voter turnout, this giving Republicans a better shot at winning. We’re a month-and-a-half away from the most expensive election in this nation’s history, and the ultimate test of whether organized people can defeat organized money.
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09/29/2012 8:44PM
The super-rich versus us
Trickle-Down economics? Let’s be blunt - and honest.
You want to know what "Trickle-down economics" REALLY is?
Trickle-Down Economics is -excuse my language- nothing but
the fuckin' super-rich PISSING on the rest of us.
And laughing all the way to their offshore banks.
Trickle-Down, Trick-Em economics is now, and always has been:
Crumbs for us - Cadillacs , car elevators, ten houses
loopholes & lower taxes for them. That is ...if they pay ANY taxes at all.
Romney smirks and says TO HELL
with “47% of America” -- the “losers” and “parasites”
that he so easily dismisses and disrespects as “dependents”
-- all of us are struggling to stay afloat, all of us still in the
middle-class, and all of us hoping to get there.
Prince Mitt wants to be King. He doesn’t have enough. He wants it all.
But did the Big Flipper even MENTION the words
"worker" or "veteran" in his Republican convention speech?
This man Romney is SO out of touch ...that it's incredible.
He abandons the elderly, the students, the hungry, the homeless,
the helpless, and the hopeless ...and all the biblical “least of these”.
Love thy neighbor? Come on Mitt, let’s be honest:
YOUR REAL GOD IS MONEY.
YOUR saints are those who have the most money
..... those who want to BUY this ELECTION - and this COUNTRY
......and TO HELL with the rest of us.
Bottom line: When THEY get a break - hey, they deserve it.
But if WE get a break, it’s a handout. BULLSHIT!
Tell me - who are the REAL “takers”? Who are the REAL “makers”?
Who are the TRUE workers and builders? Who are the REAL “victims” here?
And who’s in the Cayman Islands, trying to avoid taxes,
and deducting his dancing horses?
Who gave their LIVES and limbs ...in unpaid and un-needed wars?
Whose sweat, .....on whose brows, has BUILT this great country?
Was it the Romney’s of this world ...or ...us?
They try to drown us out with their dollars.
But WE still have a voice. And it’s called our VOTE.
Loud and Clear -- we need to just say NO.
NO to Romney & Company. NO to what they stand for.
‘Cause this is STILL our country. Our children’s country.
And we mean to KEEP it that way. Period.
Romney should “self-deport” HIMSELF back to Mexico,
where his grandpa fled to avoid the U.S. marriage monogamy laws.
‘Cause Prince Mitt not only wants to kill the Dream Act,
but the American Dream as well.
We need a President for ALL the people -
NOT a President of the wealthy, by the wealthy, and for the wealthy.
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