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She's speaking for people like this. The Congressional Progressive Caucus
and socialist groups like this who have as part of their agenda the socialist garbage LINKED below.
Get Private Money out of Politics [Excerpt] Perhaps no single factor threatens democracy in this nation more than the control of private money over public elections. The public has grown increasingly outraged over the flagrant abuse of loopholes, systematic influence peddling, and political favors. It has become clear that the system of laws governing campaign financing has been rendered meaningless and must be restructured. Recent scandals focus public attention on possible illegalities, but the bigger scandal is that so much of the money changing hands has been completely legal. What President Johnson observed some 30 years ago is still true today: the system is more loophole than law.
Campaigns are too expensive; large corporate interests have too much influence; good candidates without money or connections to corporate interests don't have a fair chance of competing for office; and politicians spend too much time raising campaign money instead of devoting their full energies to the duties of public office. While Congress and state legislatures appear far from any consensus on the problem, much less a solution, there are signs that citizens are far ahead of the politicians. Last November, Maine voters approved a Clean Money Election initiative that offers full public financing to candidates who voluntarily reject large private contributions and agree to campaign spending limits. We suggest that this kind of initiative represents the most comprehensive and far-reaching approach to the formidable obstacle to democracy posed by the problem of private money in politics. [End Excerpt]
Pretty accurate, and not a good thing (except perhaps the impediment to "devoting their full energies to the duties of public office").
The solution is not 'public' financing though. If government stayed out of my and your life, there would be a lot less incentive for 'special' interests to contribute. Not gonna happen, though.
But isn't this her precious "democracy" in action?
Green Party members say their involvement will bring fresh energy and ideas to the election.
Ah yes, ideas as fresh as they were when Karl Marx came up with them.
Watch for the next big "ideas" from the Green Party: Fire and The Wheel, only better. No, really.
When confronted with reality, a Green will fall back on "Never wished, never to be" while chiding people to deny "Corporations" the opportunity to control their lives. And just what are corporations? Starbucks? Pfizer which markets Atorvastatin? Corporations are as varied as the fish in the sea but are we to think they are all evil?
Greens have oversimplified things to the extent that they cannot gain legitimacy unless they buy slick green marketing using our taxes.
But what is truly irksome about Greeny people is that when American entrepreneurs (and corporate and academic scientists) finally do solve some of the environmental problems that can be successfully marketed (by corporations), these people will claim credit for it.
"Wish it and it will be" and "if and when it comes to pass, it was only because WE THE GREENS wished it so". How insulting to American scientists who dedicate themselves to advancing science. Now these algaic slimesters are proposing that we pay taxes that are given to them so that they may tell us how all our good efforts and products (deemed and labeled environmentally-friendly) are their ideas.
So, the worm turns, eh Teddy?
You build your own little socialist empire, then along come bigger, tougher socialists to take it away from you.
If you have ever read the Green party platform you will realize immediately that there is no way even the "great" Ted Kennedy can out socialist these people.
If the Mass voters want socialism and Government sponsored coddling at the expense of "evil, greedy corporations" and massive political correctness, the Greenies win hands down.
The Democrats don't even hold a candle.. Aren't even in the same league as Nader's bunch.