If you don't believe that our politicians have been bought off and are in fact, rubber stamps....
One picture worth a thousand words...
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House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, far right, speaks while colleagues play solitaire on their computers as the House convenes to vote on a new budget for the fiscal year in the Capitol on Monday [AP Photo/Jessica Hill]
A photo of two Democratic legislators playing solitaire has ignited controversy at the state Capitol and in the blogosphere.
The Associated Press picture has appeared in any number of venues, and it shows two lawmakers sitting in the back row of the historic Hall of the House in Hartford during the lengthy debate over the two-year, $37 billion state budget.
On the left is Rep. Barbara Lambert, a freshman Democrat from Milford who won her first legislative election in November 2008. She replaced longtime Milford Democrat James Amann, who ended his legislative career as the House Speaker and is now running for governor against Republican M. Jodi Rell.
Lambert is playing spider solitaire in the photo, while Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, a Bridgeport Democrat who has served in Hartford since 2005, is playing regular solitaire. They both voted in favor of the Democratic-written budget...
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Our political system is broken, because it's been bought off.
Congressmen don't care if they're voted out of office, because they are given higher paying jobs by the NGO's, Think Tanks, and the lobbyists.
There are over 15,000 lobbyists in Washington D.C. and they will spend over $3 billion dollars this year on lobbying Congress. That’s nearly $1 million dollars a day, and approximately $6.5 million dollars per year for each member of the U.S. Congress and the Senate.
See Lobbyist Report here:
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$6.5 million spent on someone who makes $175,000.
Do the math.
Did you know that 94% of all legislation passed by the U.S. Senate is written by lobbyists, is done so in secrecy ( in committee), and is passed without a vote, and without any public discussion, or debate?
Shocked?
You should be…
This process is called “unanimous consent” and you can learn all about it in this quick 5 minute CNN video.
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And you wonder why you don’t have a voice, and why Congress and the Senate rubber stamps 94% of all legislation without any public discussion, or demanding to read the legislation that was written by lobbyists in secret committee?
And it's both parties.
We must reform campaign finance laws as job #1.
Because we will never be able to clean out Washington and make Congress answerable to the people until we do.
Funny how campaign finance reform has been completely forgotten with everything else that's going on, isn't it?
Don't get caught in the left-right paradigm.
Remember what Carroll Quigley said about the globalist CFR's agenda:
"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers."
Watch Quigley's -- "Our Tragedy & Their Hope"
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5 part video interview here:
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They're laughing at us.
It's like one big WWF Wrestlemania where they all divy up the loot afterwards and laugh at how worked up the crowd was.
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