Who Has Given?
Money in politics - boy, are well all tired of it, right? I mean, if we could only get the money of Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Big Insurance and Big Pharmacy out of politics, we’d at last be able to get some laws passed for the benefit of the common people.
So goes the theory - and to back it up, we can see that since 1990, Big Oil has put $211 million into politics, Big Pharmacy $150 million, Big Tobacco $59 million and Big Insurance $283 million. That’s a lot of infuence-buying, ain’t it? If we could just get that money out of politics, we’d have such a much better country…right?
Well, perhaps…but if we could get Big Lawyer’s $866 million out of politics, I think we’d have a better shot at cleaning up the mess. I mean, given that Big Laywer has given more than Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Big Insurance and Big Pharmacy, combined. Oh, and does anyone want to guess which party has been the recipient of 73% of that Big Lawyer money?
Source: Open Secrets
28 comments February 16th, 2008
