If you have been watching the debates and listening to the language something should be clear. Except for John Edwards and Ron Paul the candidates never explain who the Special Interests are that they will fight for you.
I will give you a small list of some of them. They are in no special order.
The Cable industry. They give you one year leases and with almost every renewal they raise the prices.
The internet providers. Almost the same tactic.
The phone providers. Hey they learned also.
The credit card companies. They have the right to change terms at their discretion.
The banks. They also can change terms at their discretion and make arbitrary charges.
The HMOS. After the first year they also can change terms.
The Utilities. They can tear up your streets for their convenience, take forever to make the necessary improvements and inconvenience the public with no oversight.
The Transportation industry. Whenever they have to give one of their retiring executives a "Golden Parachute" they can get the money from the public by raising the fares.
The Bridge and turnpike authorities. They too can raise the tolls whenever they feel they need to.
Disagree with their policies and they answer that they can do what they want because the law says so .The Public Commissions
that are supposed to oversee the industries are rubber stamps.
These are only a few. Sometimes I feel that the only Special Interests they will fight against are mine.
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The folloing is a quote from Frank Rich this Sunday.
Just before the holidays, investigative reporters at both The Washington Post and The New York Times tried to find out why, with no help from the Clintons. The Post uncovered a plethora of foreign contributors, led by Saudi Arabia. The Times found an overlap between library benefactors and Hillary Clinton campaign donors, some of whom might have an agenda with a new Clinton administration. (Much as one early library supporter, Marc Rich’s ex-wife, Denise, had an agenda with the last one.) “The vast scale of these secret fund-raising operations presents enormous opportunities for abuse,” said Representative Henry Waxman, the California Democrat whose legislation to force disclosure passed overwhelmingly in the House but remains stalled in the Senate.
Just before the holidays, investigative reporters at both The Washington Post and The New York Times tried to find out why, with no help from the Clintons. The Post uncovered a plethora of foreign contributors, led by Saudi Arabia. The Times found an overlap between library benefactors and Hillary Clinton campaign donors, some of whom might have an agenda with a new Clinton administration. (Much as one early library supporter, Marc Rich’s ex-wife, Denise, had an agenda with the last one.) “The vast scale of these secret fund-raising operations presents enormous opportunities for abuse,” said Representative Henry Waxman, the California Democrat whose legislation to force disclosure passed overwhelmingly in the House but remains stalled in the Senate.
Just before the holidays, investigative reporters at both The Washington Post and The New York Times tried to find out why, with no help from the Clintons. The Post uncovered a plethora of foreign contributors, led by Saudi Arabia. The Times found an overlap between library benefactors and Hillary Clinton campaign donors, some of whom might have an agenda with a new Clinton administration. (Much as one early library supporter, Marc Rich’s ex-wife, Denise, had an agenda with the last one.) “The vast scale of these secret fund-raising operations presents enormous opportunities for abuse,” said Representative Henry Waxman, the California Democrat whose legislation to force disclosure passed overwhelmingly in the House but remains stalled in the Senate.
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