Never Ending Story
Young dismisses tradeoffs for cash claim
“Every story that comes out is the same, with different players and different projects,” he said. “When you are the chairman of the largest committee in the House, and a senior member, and in charge of writing a $290-odd billion bill, it’s a guarantee that you are going to be raising more money than other less senior members. It’s also a guarantee that there will be a plethora of projects for people to look at and pick apart. This is a recycled story.”
Unfortunately Congressman Young is absolutely correct. This is the never ending story. Until we stop voting for candidates that accept contributions from any source other than their constituents, the story will continue.
Young isn’t the issue here. The integrity of our elections and representatives across the board is the issue. It’s not just the Republicans. Democrats stuff their campaign pockets with cash from special interests just as much as the Republicans. If you looked closely at the contributions and votes of Democratic members I’m certain you would see the same type of pattern. It’s the way the system works.
The system is corrupt. It takes big money to run a campaign to win. So candidates are forced to whore themselves out to special interest groups if they have any chance of raising money to compete. Don’t fool yourself, or buy into the nonsense that contributions don’t buy influence. Of course they do, and any politician that says otherwise is flat lying. Perhaps lying to themselves as well.
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