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Old 08-30-2014, 03:50 PM
 
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This is little money to you?

Lobbying Spending Database | OpenSecrets

Top Lobbying Industries

Misc Business $6,222,186,821
Health $6,129,444,976
Finance/Insur/RealEst $6,114,392,300
Communic/Electronics $5,024,864,161
Energy/Nat Resource $4,541,655,840
Other $3,238,679,056
Transportation $3,112,258,359
Ideology/Single-Issue $2,006,128,150
Agribusiness $1,838,821,458
Defense $1,754,280,083
Construction $669,720,712
Labor $606,259,501
Lawyers & Lobbyists $420,666,755

That does not even take into account the amount of dark money, anonymous pacts, campaign contributions and back deal bribes. And the amounts being showered on politicians is reaching records, because the top wealthy believe the government is the solution. Everyone else not politically connected or with the monetary means gets left to the wayside.

Do you like your money being stolen to prop up the Finance industry via bailouts and Quantitative Easing as well as money stolen to prop up Big Insurance and Healthcare Industry?

Do you have any idea the amount of money that has been lost to the average citizen because of these "Free Trade Pacts" and Open Borders all to make a few more wealthy?
Just think of all the people those industries employ.
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Old 08-30-2014, 03:52 PM
 
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Obamacare.

That is why employers are moving to part time employees.

Just wait until 2016.
And you can thank Big Healthcare and Big Insurance Lobbyists

These are thieves

Not Liberals, Not Republicans, but cheating and morally corrupt thieving lobbyists that want everyone to prop them up under the guise of "helping the people"

They do the same thing when there is a war to fight and there is a monetary value attached it. "We need to go help those people"

But the same Morally Corrupt Thieves running this country all of a sudden have no problem stealing from their own countrymen to prop them up.


Lobbying Spending Database | OpenSecrets



Top Lobbying Industries

Pharmaceuticals/Health Products $2,913,138,637
Insurance $2,043,290,819
Electric Utilities $1,901,293,123
Business Associations $1,674,512,602
Computers/Internet $1,619,352,456
Oil & Gas $1,587,010,417
Misc Manufacturing & Distributing $1,325,945,565
Education $1,323,321,106
TV/Movies/Music $1,255,678,221
Hospitals/Nursing Homes $1,231,612,063
Securities & Investment $1,168,328,986
Civil Servants/Public Officials $1,143,552,395
Real Estate $1,125,238,889
Health Professionals $1,106,675,839
Air Transport $1,037,520,394
Misc Issues $876,886,992
Automotive $834,855,139
Telecom Services & Equipment $803,720,768
Telephone Utilities $796,985,038
Health Services/HMOs $774,837,363
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Old 08-30-2014, 03:54 PM
 
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Just think of all the people those industries employ.
If they need the government to prop them up, then they need to COLLAPSE and people will survive and start over by the bootstraps.

They need to be independent and stand on their own feet like every other American has to.
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Old 08-30-2014, 03:58 PM
 
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If they need the government to prop them up, then they need to COLLAPSE and people will survive and start over by the bootstraps.

They need to be independent and stand on their own feet like every other American has to.
You likely benefit from a lobbyist in some way.

Most organizations have lobbyists.
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Old 08-30-2014, 04:04 PM
 
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You likely benefit from a lobbyist in some way.

Most organizations have lobbyists.
Yea, well I am not part of any lobby group and don't give a dime to politicians but you saying that is like saying a North Korean in a prison camp benefits from the North Korean Government when table scraps is thrown his way for his dinner.

We know where the money is concentrated in this country and it is not the bottom 99% so please don't go there.
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Old 08-30-2014, 04:07 PM
 
Location: Newport Beach, California
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So someone taking a nap in a car is now to be blaimed on minimum wage?

I've taken a nap in my car on very busy hectic work days and I make far more than minimum wage, I guess I need the government to give me some more money now as well.
LOL I take a nap in my car in between classes all the time.

I better remember to roll down the window.
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Old 08-30-2014, 04:08 PM
 
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Yea, well I am not part of any lobby group and don't give a dime to politicians but you saying that is like saying a North Korean in a prison camp benefits from the North Korean Government when table scraps is thrown his way for his dinner.

We know where the money is concentrated in this country and it is not the bottom 99% so please don't go there.
Well....I don't know you....but, I will bet you do kick in some funds.

Do you have car or, house insurance???
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Old 08-30-2014, 04:11 PM
 
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LOL I take a nap in my car in between classes all the time.

I better remember to roll down the window.
And do not store gas!!!
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Old 08-30-2014, 04:16 PM
 
Location: Newport Beach, California
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And do not store gas!!!
Yes, Ma'am
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Old 08-30-2014, 04:20 PM
 
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Oh look! A OWS mole has popped his head up.
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