Money and Poltics

The big question today:  Why is it so many pieces of good legislation that would greatly benefit our country and the American people get shot down?  Are these bills honestly thought to be bad bills?  Whats the deal?  Why is almost everything in near gridlock when it comes to taking any given problem that effects the American people and solving it, or at least working toward solving it?

Corporate person-ship is a huge problem in the political realm these days.  Over the last century or so Corporations have been able to wiggle legislation in that allows them to be able to play a major role in the decision making of our elected officials?  How?  Money!  Under the current law corporations are viewed as people, protected under the constitution as individuals with many of the rights extended to them as a result?

What does this mean?  It means that corporations have a say in how things are run in this country.  The huge problem with this is that not only do they have that huge say, they can also use their substantial profits to effect policy making. 

Now would they really do something like that, I mean really?  They are just a small group of people for each corporation, the top decision makers.  Well unfortunately is yes on both counts.  Not only can they but they use it all the time to increase their profits at the expense of the rest of the country.  How?

Money is unfortunately a huge motivator in the political world right now.  Campaign donations and donations of other types are heavily relied on for re-election interests as well as lining pockets.  This is why you see things like anti gun control groups, anti environmental groups, religious groups and so forth, adversely effecting politics and gumming up the things that need to be done.  Worse yet these same groups will introduce legislation that not only dead stop good forward movement to correcting serious problems, but will often introduce legislation that would make problems worse!

the answer?  Get money out of politics and stop elevating corporations, businesses, to the level of being recognized as people .  Right now with money involved politicians are able to be bought.  That old saying "every man has a price" certainly applies here.  The politicians we are voting in to represent the American people's will are naming their price and corporations are paying it gleefully.

The result? You see the will of the people not being followed on many subjects.  If the peoples will were being followed you would see things like stiffer gun control laws being passed, pot being legalized across the board.  Gay marriage would have been legalized a long time ago, and we would have no where near the problems we have with environmental legislation, or even the attempted hindering of the Affordable Healthcare Act.  Its all corporations that are holding these things back in one way or another.

The sooner money is ejected from politics the sooner we can get things on the right track. I will take work but It can be done.