The Buying and Selling of the US Government

Read and weep. The bribes to control the new "super committee" are already in place. Money has already greased palms to make sure that big corporate interests are "looked after" while the 99% at the bottom are ignored. This is government "of the people, by the people, and for the people updated for 2011 where the US Supreme Court has affirmed that corporations are 'people' too"...

The political action committees of Lockheed Martin, the National Association of Realtors, Pfizer and Chevron all reported making contributions to members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction--better known as the super committee--in the roughly 20 days of August after House and Senate leadership appointed them to the panel.

PACs for 19 of the biggest political donors in the country, as determined by Center for Responsive Politics, have reported contributing more than $83,000 to 10 of the 12 members of the super committee or their leadership PACs, Federal Eelection Commission filings show. It's the first glimpse available of fundraising by super committee members as they wrestle with their mandate to recommend at least $1.2 trillion in cuts to the debt, increased revenues, or a combination of both.

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Most members of the super committee have continued to hold fundraising events while it considers various proposals that could affect corporate and individual income tax rates, defense, healthcare and other spending. Check our sister site, Party Time, for the latest updates.

The committee had its first public meeting on Sept. 8, 2011.

When you have corrupt government, you get an economy that looks like this:

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And this:

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And this:

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