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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (703789)	3/11/2013 5:37:36 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1573426

Instead, your anger is directed toward those who have a lot of money. I haven't seen any of his anger towards those members of his ideology that have a lot of money

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (703789)	3/11/2013 5:46:55 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Respond to of 1573426

"Being rich doesn't necessarily give you political power, but having political power almost always makes you rich." Being rich always give's you political power if you want it.....you don't have to hold office, just control the person who does hold it by making it possible for him to run and then paying him to support legislation favorable to the giver..... There are lots of politicians who are not rich....high level types included.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (703789)	3/11/2013 7:11:21 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573426

>As I pointed out to you before, there have been many filthy rich people who tried to buy their way into elected offices with little success. Sure. But take the Koch Brothers... if it's too expensive to buy a Presidential election, they buy gubernatorial elections (Scott Walker, Rick Snyder). Hell, billionaires just tried to buy a school board seat in LA. They lost, but they win more often than they lose. >Being rich doesn't necessarily give you political power, but having political power almost always makes you rich. Maybe at the top. But there are tens of thousands of politicians that aren't the President, one of 100 Senators, or 435 members of the house. They can (and do) get bought. Just look at West Virginia. >Your beef should be against those who have the political power, i.e. the lobbyists and those who can solicit political contributions. Instead, your anger is directed toward those who have a lot of money. And that's just plain class envy. I'm much angrier about how they use it than the fact that they have it. But the fact that they have it hurts the economy. -Z