Hiroyuki Hamada: As soon as I heard that the Supreme Court legalized bribery a couple of days ago, I started to see people attempting to replace the matter with a partisan dispute by pointing out it was the Republican party which has supported the corporate domination all along. Of course that is far from true. Anyone who kept up with the excellent articles by Matte Taibbi would know step by step how both parties have collaborated in preserving the rule of the mega banks. And just taking a look at President Obamas appointments of banking criminals and financial schemers in his cabinet and elsewhere makes it clear of the corporate agendas of both parties. And we have seen the results culminating as an unprecedented gap of haves and have-nots--unseen in any periods in the history of mankind. And here is another bit: A ban on public funding of presidential conventions was quietly signed into law by Barack Obama on Thursday in a move that could further increase the dependency of US political parties on wealthy donors. A day after the supreme court removed aggregate limits on how much wealthy individuals can spend supporting candidates, the White House agreed to enact legislation dismantling what was left of an alternative public financing model set up after the Watergate scandal. And whats excruciating is the way it was done. The elected officials came up with a tear jerking scenario of replacing the public funding with the money to fund national research into childhood diseases instead. And they named it The Gabriella Miller Kids First Reserch Act after a child who died of brain cancer. They managed to hold a signing ceremony with the brother of the deceased child looking on as the president signed the Act. Now, of course, that sort of funding can come out easily from the enormous defense spending, the money to destabilize resource rich nations, global surveillance spending or the money they spend on bailing out the criminal bankers. Seriously, its not the time to play the party politics. Its not the time to empower the authority of good cops and bad cops. Its the time to realize that the whole system is working for the powerful few. theguardian/world/2014/apr/04/obama-act-public-funding-signs-aw
Posted on: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 19:31:54 +0000
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