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With the government we have in place at this moment... Someone really got their investments worth!

No question, anon. And it wasn't you and me.

Campaign contributions are rarely given out of altruism. Most sizeable donations are investments; the investors expect a return, and they usually get it.

Here in Michigan we've seen first hand how this works. The DeVos family spends millions and millions of dollars to influence government and they expect to win, as the Orlando taxpayers recently found out when they were forced to shell out $$$ for a new stadium DeVos wanted built for the Magic.

Somehow wealthy families like the DeVos and especially wealthy corporations have convinced Americans that spending money is exercising their right of free speech. What nonsense. It's simply exercising their ability to buy politicians.

I have to agree completely with your sentiments here, the money is the root of the evil. What I hear is, that the major candidates will spend in the excess of one billion dollars in their campaigns. This surely is as absurd as it is immoral, and it's continuation has no concievable justification!

Abusurd and immoral is right, Pekka. And the only thing that explains why it continues is that the people with the money won't allow it to change. It's self-perpetuating corruption.