Thursday, September 10, 2009

What are they buying?

Opensecrets.org is a great site to explore, and I encourage everyone to go there and browse.

I was doing so today, and came across their list of heavy hitters: the biggest contributors to political campaigns over the last 20 years.

One clear thing is that labor unions were, as a group, by far the biggest givers, to the tune of $184,906,000. That is $184 Million.

ATT was the biggest single company at over $43 Million. Goldman Sachs managed only fourth place with over $31 Million. But they got several Secretaries of the Treasury for their trouble.

Go here and see who "owns" our politicians. Click at the bottom of the list of ten to see the whole list, and to which party the contributions were made.

Something has to change. Who will lead the revolution?

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