If you’re interested in learning about the special interests that direct the votes of elected officials in the U.S., there is plenty of data for that.
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Cool. Put Ron Paul in there and get a great laugh.
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OK so what was so funny? That he gets most of his money from individual donations from actual people? That much of it comes from active military? Maybe I'm not looking hard enough.
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Nothing funny about Ron Paul. If there is a story about the election that doesn't include his name, his supporters complain about him being ignored. If the story mentions him as an also-ran, his supporters complain about media bias.
Suggest any thing is funny at all about Ron Paul, his supporters get offended.
Nope, nothing funny about Ron Paul.
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I say this! Take a look at the top 5 contributors to the 4 Republicans left in the race. The information is from www.opensecrets.org.
*Mitt Rimney
Goldman Sachs $499,430
JPMorgan Chase & Co $322,400
Morgan Stanley $281,350
Credit Suisse Group $277,250
Citigroup Inc $267,050
Newt Gingrich
Rock-Tenn Co $28,000
Las Vegas Sands $25,000
Poet LLC $22,500
Pull-A-Part Inc $15,000
First Fiscal Fund $15,000
Rick Santorum
Universal Health Services $19,750
Blue Cross/Blue Shield $18,000
Achristavest $14,000
Kimber Manufacturing $12,300
El Dorado Holdings $10,000
**Dr. Ron Paul
US Army $63,378
US Navy $51,553
US Air Force $48,531
Google Inc $32,090
Microsoft Corp $23,346
*Note the staggering amount of money that comes from Wall Stree! Any question as to why Romney is not supportive of auditing the Federal Reserve.
**The US Military doesn't contribute directly to any campaign. The number here are the combined contributions of all ACTIVE members of the US Military.
Let's look further and see what else we can find of interest. Here are the top contributors to Obama 2008. Let's compare them to both Bush and McCain.
Barack Obama-2008 cycle
University of California $1,648,685
Goldman Sachs $1,013,091
Harvard University $878,164
Microsoft Corp $852,167
Google Inc $814,540
JPMorgan Chase & Co $808,799
Citigroup Inc $736,771
Time Warner $624,618
Sidley Austin LLP $600,298
Stanford University $595,716
National Amusements Inc $563,798
WilmerHale LLP $550,668
Columbia University $547,852
Skadden, Arps et al $543,539
UBS AG $532,674
IBM Corp $532,372
General Electric $529,855
US Government $513,308
Morgan Stanley $512,232
Latham & Watkins $503,295
John McCain - 2008
Merrill Lynch $375,895
JPMorgan Chase & Co $343,505
Citigroup Inc $338,202
Morgan Stanley $271,902
Goldman Sachs $240,295
US Government $202,929
AT&T Inc $201,938
Wachovia Corp $199,663
UBS AG $187,493
Credit Suisse Group $184,153
PricewaterhouseCoopers $169,400
US Army $169,020
Bank of America $167,826
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher $160,346
Blank Rome LLP $155,226
Greenberg Traurig LLP $147,437
US Dept of Defense $146,356
FedEx Corp $131,974
Lehman Brothers $126,557
Ernst & Young $114,506
George W Bush 2004
Morgan Stanley $603,480
Merrill Lynch $586,254
PricewaterhouseCoopers $514,250
UBS AG $474,325
Goldman Sachs $394,600
Lehman Brothers $361,525
MBNA Corp $350,350
Credit Suisse Group $326,040
Citigroup Inc $320,820
Bear Stearns $313,150
Ernst & Young $305,140
US Government $295,786
Deloitte LLP $292,250
Wachovia Corp $279,310
US Dept of Defense $279,157
Ameriquest Capital $253,130
US Dept of State $225,330
Blank Rome LLP $225,150
Bank of America $218,261
AT&T Inc $214,920
Take a good hard look at what industry gave the most money and who got the biggest bail out. Wall Street and the large Banks. Now do you understand why the rising tide of those demanding the audit of the Federal Reserve, led by Dr Paul have the East Coast Elite crapping their collective pants? This is what Occupy Wall Street has their bowels in an uproar over. The Tea Party sees it as an overly obtrusive Government run by people who don't have their best interests at heart. Ron Paul says, "Hey wait you're not following the Constitution"
Throw those three groups together and you probably have pretty close to 40% of eligible voters. Right now they aren't united, but they're out there raising hell and the folks who bought the politicians can count and they don't like the numbers.
It's time to
Wake Up, Wise Up & Rise Up
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