WHOLLY CRAP!!! 16!!! AND THEY SAY THE KIDS ARE CLUELESS!!! Youre just looking at the wrong kids!!! Yeah the ones with silver spoons up their asses are acting a fool, but the hard knocks kids have had to wake up one way or another. Ever wonder where your congressperson’s political contributions come from? A new browser plugin is aiming to shed light on the money trail, and it was built by a teenager. While there are already great tools to help informed voters look into what special interests are impacting local and national politics, such as those by the Sunlight Foundation, the new web browser tool is possibly the easiest way so far to get a glimpse into the often shady underpinnings of corporate contributions. The plugin automatically highlights the name of any US lawmaker as you browse through the web, and a simple hover produces a popup window with a quick rundown of where that politician’s money is coming from. The ‘Greenhouse’ plugin, available now for Chrome and Safari (and soon Firefox), displays both the percentage of political contributions to House and Senate members by small donors as well as those from industry. The online tool does this by pulling in data provided by OpenSecrets.org from the last full election cycle in 2012. According to the plugin’s 16-year-old creator, Nicholas Rubin, the intent of the tool is to provide greater context to voters, regardless of their political affiliation. “The motto of Greenhouse is: ‘Some are red. Some are blue. All are green.’ What it signifies is that the influence of money on our government isn’t a partisan issue. Whether Democrat or Republican, we should all want a political system that is independent of the influence of big money and not dependent on endless cycles of fundraising from special interests. The United States of America was founded to serve individuals, not big interests or big industries. Yet every year we seem to move farther and farther away from our Founders’ vision,” says the self-taught programmer.
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 04:05:25 +0000
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