The Money Lobby

The Money Lobby

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They say money is the root of all evil. Well, nowhere is this more true than in US politics.

The 2012 US presidential and congressional elections were the most expensive in history, costing six billion dollars.

But who paid this money and what did he, she or they expect in return? How about the American people, the so-called electorate, the 99%? Is it their vote all the top 1%'s cache? Who are the true king makers and puppet masters behind the scene?

The Money Lobby examines how Political Action Committees (PACs) and Super PACs have managed to monopolize the political discourse in the US in favor of a privileged class.

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Blueyonder
Blueyonder
10 years ago

This is a misquote. The correct quote us "the worship of money is the root of all evil". Isn't education wonderful?

ixcoatl
ixcoatl
10 years ago

biggest contributors were jewish enterprises

systems1000
systems1000
10 years ago

Yes. And then add super weapons,religion and industrial waste into this deadly cocktail and were faced with extinction.The only people who had some kind of handle on this problem are/were the indigenous.Unfortunatly whats left of them are still/now being herded into concentration camps by creatures who are less then human and being marked for extermination.But what comes around will go around.Ya God.

steviecomment
steviecomment
10 years ago

Or, when Bankers want to make more profits, they lend out more money, even if the "loans" are to people that have no way of paying them back. Now these "loans" don't come from the vault, they are simply numbers typed into a computer. There is your inflation.
And don't forget the interest added too, for the risk we are taking.

If we could elect bankers, i'd have no complaints.

systems1000
systems1000
10 years ago

When some people start demanding more money it creates a chain reaction in others to do the same in fear that they are being left behind.Thus everything starts to go up and the country starts to print more money,thus Everyones money starts to devaluate.A system that trys to regulate the worth of another will all ways be plagued with this disease.

steviecomment
steviecomment
10 years ago

If no one benefits from inflation, why is it here.

Banks benefit from inflation, it's a hidden tax.

Banks are private businesses, that can't be right, can it?

systems1000
systems1000
10 years ago

Actually no one benefits from inflation.Except those who think they can by killing the golden goose.

steviecomment
steviecomment
10 years ago

When people say they think money is evil, i no what they mean. I think whats unfair about money is inflation. Who benefits from inflation............mmmm i wonder.

systems1000
systems1000
10 years ago

Just because people seem content to live with little money dose not necessary mean that they wouldn,t like to hit the mother load, perhaps they are not in the right social position or cleaver enough to get their hands on any.Example,look at all the gambling.Sad but true,those facing imminent death and or/sliding into old age will wake up to the horror that money is not as important as they once thought it was.Money can only give us a more comfortable place to die.

Luis Fernando
Luis Fernando
10 years ago

I love this site(TOP)

The only thing i regret is ....Not having enough time to see all docs

Cheers and keeps up the good work

henrymart81
henrymart81
10 years ago

Definitely not as biased as CNN. I swear CNN must have a staff of fiction writers.

Adam Young
Adam Young
10 years ago

there will never be time where the 99% are free from their puppet masters. we will try to overthrow them via legal process which will continue to fail and ultimately we will rise up and use violence which then a genocide ( and an accompanying corporate sponsored media propaganda ) of the many million undesirables. if they'll demolish occupied skyscrapers in the name of money, how much further will the EVIL 1% go when it's their lives at stake ?

Adam Young
Adam Young
10 years ago

it's " the love of money is the root of all evil " not money itself !
first Timothy 6:10

Lenny
Lenny
10 years ago

PressTV, RT and al-Jazeera are incapable of objective reporting.

Justin Lesniewski
Justin Lesniewski
10 years ago

Money is pretty god danged evil, immoral, illogical, wasteful, whatever you want to think of EVIL as! Yes I know evil doesn't exist that's why I added all the smarty things that people blame evil on......Things that Should bother us as beings in this loving universe.... It perpetuates social stratification, puts a dollar sign on every natural resource, gives power to those that haven't earned it, keeps power to those who haven't earned it---- need I even go on? Oh......Wait.....Money is the Sh##Glue that binds us as a world, and its the quintessential carrot on a stick for you sheeple, they would HAVE you believe....even though They dont even realize they want you to believe something they dont even understand, they involuntarily vomit in their mouths and swallow it back down without even realizing how bad it tastes! Scum is overflowing from the cesspit of the USA I am so disgusted and I bet God is too. He probably changed the channel to a way cooler planet, where people actually care about something besides themselves.... people think they know something but they dont know anything,

You Don't Know Anything. I do. Learn about a concept called "positive disintegration" study Nietzsche for 5 years, listen to a few george carlin shows, halfway kill yourself just to appreciate life, abandon God like a staunch snobby atheist, and then come back to love him again truly, and know in your heart that this wasn't all for nothing.

Money, Money, Money. Your alright Jack, until someone wants to get their hands on your stack! MONEY it keeps this big s###ball rolling down hill and picking up speed and SH## and people like you all mashed up into a big ball of S%&* and stupid. You know what, I guess the Nazis Death Squads weren't evil, they was just a means to an end....durrrrr Guns are a means to an end, so I guess they aint evil either? DURRRRRRRRR guns dont kill people! people kill people! DURRRRRRRRR People just love to stick their big stupid opinion into things, and say it like its a FACT. LOL "you are entitled to your own opinions, but your not entitled to your own facts!" /Rant

demiurg
demiurg
10 years ago

this document is sooooooooo "objective"

Geoffrey Grekin
Geoffrey Grekin
10 years ago

Money is NOT the root of all evil... It's simply a means to an end.
The truth about money is that its simply a tool in which the true roots of evil; power, control and influence can manifest itself.

Helen Kennington
Helen Kennington
10 years ago

The LOVE of money is the root of all evil.