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INFLUENCE GAME: Big donors and what they want!
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The millionaires, billionaires and companies giving big sums to political committees supporting Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama have important business with the next president. Some are already in trouble with the government. Some are pressing for new laws or regulations that would benefit their interests in energy, mining and high finance.
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INFLUENCE GAME: Big donors and what they want! (Original Post)
yortsed snacilbuper
Feb 2012
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brewens
(13,582 posts)1. What Apple has going in China is what they want. A return to the slave labor conditions of a
century or more ago.
peacebird
(14,195 posts)2. exactly....
we can do it
(12,184 posts)3. Get Over It. Its Almost EVERY Company Not Just Apple for Chrissake
get a life already
brewens
(13,582 posts)4. I wasn't saying it was only Apple or blaming
it all on them. That's just a valid example of where we might end up. Again.