"Our problem today is not a broken government but a beholden one: government is more beholden to special-interest shareholders who fund campaigns than it is to ordinary voters. Like any sound investor, the funders seek nothing more and nothing less than a handsome return — deficits be darned — in the form of tax breaks, subsidies and government contracts."
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Daniel Weeks, Congress isn’t broken – it’s fixed by special interests via Glenn Greenwald (via absurdlakefront)
Hay remember that time that special interests didn’t control everything everywhere?
me either.
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