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View Poll Results: Who control government policies?
Presidents control 100% of government policy 0 0%
Corporate and Banking Lobbyists control majority of policy 6 100.00%
Voters: 6. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 07-11-2018, 10:48 PM
 
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I would say Corporate and Banking Lobbyists have way more control over policy in DC than the president does. There are thousands of bills drafted by them that Trump never even sees.

We also had equal representation one time in this country where workers could unite and also be represented in DC.

These days, Corporate and Banking Lobbyist Money that control policy account for about 90% of the money going to politicians.

About 90% of the people in this country should be attacking lobbyists and politicians instead of each other.
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Old 07-11-2018, 10:55 PM
 
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Yup -- the swamp is still swampy -- it just is.
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Old 07-11-2018, 10:58 PM
 
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Yup -- the swamp is still swampy -- it just is.
Yup!
Same as it ever was.
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Old 07-11-2018, 11:00 PM
 
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It always strikes me funny how those against workers and unions uniting are silent when it comes to Corporate and Banking Cockroaches uniting in Washington DC and pushing politicians to pass policies to pad their pockets.
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Old 07-11-2018, 11:02 PM
 
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Most Corporate and Banking Cheerleaders are closet Communists that have ABSOLUTELY ZERO issues with taking advantage of labor under Communist Systems where workers have zero rights.
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Old 07-11-2018, 11:04 PM
 
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There is a lot of money to be made under Communism where I can still own my business and take advantage of cheap labor that have no rights.

There is also a lot of money to be made by purchasing politicians.
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Old 07-11-2018, 11:21 PM
 
Location: Florida
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It always strikes me funny how those against workers and unions uniting are silent when it comes to Corporate and Banking Cockroaches uniting in Washington DC and pushing politicians to pass policies to pad their pockets.
I'm not against unions, but I do know that they can be just as crooked as any corporation or politician, (I know from watching my dad and uncle get crapped by unions big time in he 80's) so I take them with a grain of salt. As for us not hearing anything about corporate and banking cartels, that's because big corps own all of the news networks and newspapers, so they can silent any opposition. The federal reserve is the biggest banking cartel in the world, and the moment someone in power wants to start poking around, they end up fired, retired or dead. Just look what happened to Jason Chaffetz.
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Old 07-11-2018, 11:45 PM
 
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DuPont, Rockefeller, Rothschild, Astore, Goldman-Sachs...just some of the names that own the government and own you.
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Old 07-12-2018, 04:35 AM
 
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DuPont, Rockefeller, Rothschild, Astore, Goldman-Sachs...just some of the names that own the government and own you.
Yep, the notion that the public has any say in what their 'elected' lawmakers do is a scam.

I saw proof of that in 2012 when very tough laws were enacted on opioid prescription drugs, this was done when Obama was president and the dems had all the power! LOL something very fishy about that, because the dems and their supporters are usually pretty liberal minded when it comes to drug laws.
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