The Big American Bribery Scandal Isn't Felicity Huffman's $15,000

[dajoki]

The Big American Bribery Scandal Isn't Felicity Huffman's $15,000
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/86552

The American media world—both social media and "news" media—is afire with the news that actor Felicity Huffman is going to jail for spending $15,000 to bribe her daughter’s way into college.

But a much bigger bribery scandal is played out every day in America with nary a peep from the media. It’s the way billionaires and big corporations buy not just college admissions but tax cuts, deregulation, and hundreds of billions in government subsidies paid for with our taxes.

Just prior to the 2016 presidential election, the Progressive Change Institute commissioned a nationwide poll conducted by the highly respected firm GBA Strategies. The result showed clearly just how deep and extensive the bribery problem in America is.

When asked whether the U.S. government should negotiate prescription drug prices, 79 percent of Americans agreed and only 12 percent opposed. But because big pharma bribed Congress to the tune of $2.5 billion over the last decade, giving money to 9 out of 10 members of the House and 97 out of 100 members of the Senate, nothing has changed. Thousands of Americans literally die every year because of this bribery, but Felicity merits the front page of the Washington Post.

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[Stuart G]

1. Well Said...K and R Thank You for posting. Everyone needs to read this..

[mikeysnot]

2. bread and circuses

the forth estate has been dead for a long time now.

[CrispyQ]

3. We need to get money out of our electoral process, but the people who can make that happen

are the very ones benefiting from it.

[MagickMuffin]

4. This is what I call The Closed Loop System

Congress gives TRILLIONS of dollars to these corporations for "R&D", then the corporate lawyers/lobbyists write the bills they want passed and then the corpos pay the congress critters with the R&D money.

And so it goes Rinse and Repeat.