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All The Prostitutes In Washington
Aren't Selling Sex
Congressional Prostitutes Offer Votes For Money
Look at all of the major issues facing our country; the
economic crisis, the health care crisis, the possibility of a major influenza
pandemic, an energy crisis and global warming. Yet, our elected officials are
seemingly unable to work together long enough to search for real solutions.
Solutions that solve problems rather than just pander to lobbyist.
They are too busy posturing in irrelevant divisive partisan
bickering and kowtowing to big moneyed lobbyist so they can raise enough bribes
to get reelected.
We've only ourselves to blame if we continue to let our elected
representatives steer our nation’s course based on the money given to them by
special interest lobbies. It should make every American’s blood boil to hear
their congressional representative's hypocritical self-righteous indignation
when someone happens to compare the amounts given to them by big moneyed
interests with their in sync congressional voting records.
Politicians are quick to point out that their votes on
legislation have nothing to do with who gives them money. The vast majority of
Americans know this is a bald-faced lie but, like me, feel helpless to stop the
practice of congressional votes to the highest bidder.
Organizations like
Change Congress are trying to change the system by advocating public
campaign finance reform but they face an uphill battle. Needless to say, big
moneyed interests aren't about to give up their stranglehold on Congress without
a fight and tons of well placed money.
Any company, or affiliation of companies, that has the
money to pay can buy as many Senators and House members as they need. Many Democrats
and Republicans alike are available to the highest bidder.
What’s best for our nation and the working people of this
country (the ones who elected them) doesn’t even enter into the equation. All that matters to most
Congressional members is that they take in enough money to assure they get
reelected.
These big moneyed interests have their lobbyist in Washington,
passing out money to "our" elected representatives by the wheelbarrow full, to get what they want enacted into
law.
In exchange for this dirty money, Congressional members
will vote the will of their benefactors and how it harms the average
constituents who elected them doesn’t matter at all; just as long as they can get
reelected.
It wasn’t big banks, big energy, big pharma and big
insurance that has brought about the current financial mess our country finds
itself in; it was Congressional members who accepted the bribes these big
moneyed interests paid them to vote for legislation to suit their greedy
personal interests.
For the skeptics who refuse to believe our Congressional
members aren’t for sale to the highest bidder, just go to
OpenSecrets.org and see who
contributed to your Senate and House members. Next go to the
Washington Post -
Congressional Votes Database and see how your representatives have voted. By doing this
your skepticism will probably diminish and your blood pressure will likely rise.
I won’t go so far as to say every Senator and House member
is a crook, we do have a few heroes in Congress who really stand up for what
they truly believe. But for the vast majority in Congress, it does seem to require a leap of faith to believe it’s just a
coincident that most of their “moral values” and votes almost always seem to
coincide with those big moneyed interests who helped them buy their
congressional seats.
Why the ACLU or some enterprising lawyer hasn’t applied the
RICO Act (Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) to Congress is beyond my pay
grade; but if there ever was a “Corrupt Organization” it would be the United
States Congress.
They lie to get our votes; and with their bought and paid
for legislative votes they cause
us harm, both financially and even in such life and death matters as a right to
basic health care, where thousands of American lives hang in the balance.
We do not have the best government money can buy; we have a
bunch of elected prostitutes who would sell their souls, and our futures, to retain
their congressional seats.
Note: My apologies for any negative connotations
this article might inadvertently cast on all the legitimate prostitutes in
Washington who are not in Congress.
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