Please ask yourself: who benefits from a dysfunctional political system, one where the most important financial decisions for our nation can so easily be stalemated? Answer: the corporatocracy. When it comes to gridlock over health insurance, every day that the decision is delayed, the insurance companies reap millions. When gridlock over climate change and environmental issues, the fossil fuels industries and other polluters benefit. When it comes to GMOs, it’s the big agribusinesses. The corporatocracy donates megabucks to the war chests of both the Republicans and Democrats. Their lobbyists instruct the members of one party to vote for a new law and members of the other party to vote against it, thus insuring that the new law will be tabled. Since most of the existing laws favor big corporations, providing them with tax breaks and other subsidies, it is corporatocracy policy to maintain the status quo. Each year over $4 billion dollars in government subsidies are given to top oil companies like ExxonMobil, Shell and Chevron. That money comes directly from the taxpayer’s wallets– your wallet. In addition to receiving such funding, these companies are also granted exemptions from numerous environmental standards, freeing them from the responsibility of the consequences of health burdens and environmental damage that result from their actions.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 21:52:23 +0000