THE PURCHASE OF INFLUENCE OVER ELECTED OFFICALS IS AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE

The allegiance of our elected officials is being bought through campaign financing and the promise of lucrative positions once an elected politican leaves.  The basic issue that is plaguing this country is the financial influence of corporations over our government.  The Republican are more direct about their support for corporations over middle and working class people. They continue to support tax cuts for the wealthy in the face of ample evidence that it does not create jobs.  Democrats acquiesce by never taking a true stand against raising those taxes.  When George W Bush was president the House and Senate voted a medicare prescription drug benifit into law that stipulated that there would be negotation of drug prices.  The government, the largest purchaser of drugs, under the bill was required to pay the prices set by the pharmaceutical industry.  When Harry Reid explains an element of the New Health Care Bill he says that; the bill was written in order to get it by Big Pharma.  Our congress, and perhaps our President, are working in service of corporate America.

In Linda Keenan and Janine R. Wedel Article,Published in the Huffington Post on April 7th titled; "How the Richest "1 Percent" Keep Rewarding Themselves for Epic Failure" they say that: 

The personal and the political are today in perfect alignment. Virtually all U.S. senators, and most...[House] representatives...are members of the top 1 percent....are kept in office by money from the top 1 percent, and know that if they serve the top 1 percent well they will be rewarded by the top 1 percent when they leave office. By and large, the key executive-branch policymakers on trade and economic policy also come from the top 1 percent. When pharmaceutical companies receive a trillion-dollar gift--through legislation prohibiting the government...from bargaining over price--it should not come as cause for wonder....Given the power of the top 1 percent, this is the way you would expect the system to work.