• Senators Authorizing Syria Strike Receive More Defense Contractor Cash Than Lawmakers Voting No
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[quote]Senators voting Wednesday to authorize a Syria strike received, on average, 83 percent more campaign financing from defense contractors than lawmakers voting against war. Overall, political action committees and employees from defense and intelligence firms such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, United Technologies, Honeywell International, and others ponied up $1,006,887 to the 17 members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who voted yes or no on the authorization Wednesday, according to an analysis by Maplight, the Berkeley-based nonprofit that performed the inquiry at WIRED’s request. Committee members who voted to authorize what the resolution called a “limited” strike averaged $72,850 in defense campaign financing from the pot. Committee members who voted against the resolution averaged $39,770, according to the data.[/quote] [url]http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/syria-war-authorization-money/[/url]
shocking
Imagine that, money influencing American politics. I also learned today that the grass is green and the sky is blue!
Money runs the world who would have thought It's almost like politicians are thought of as scum almost universally for a reason
There's no reason that the money influenced their vote. It is more likely that the contractors give them money in order to get elected BECAUSE they knew they would already vote that way. One would need to show that the politician voted one way and then changed when they received the money.
[QUOTE=sgman91;42114321]There's no reason that the money influenced their vote.[/quote] [QUOTE=sgman91;42114321]It is more likely that the contractors give them money in order to get elected BECAUSE they knew they would already vote that way.[/quote] I don't understand what the fuck difference this makes. Money shouldn't dictate lawmaking.
[QUOTE=Starpluck;42114349]I don't understand what the fuck difference this makes. Money shouldn't dictate lawmaking.[/QUOTE] Do democrats vote for pro choice agendas because pro choice groups give them money for their campaigns? Or do pro choice groups give them money BECAUSE they ALREADY vote for pro choice agendas? There's a massive difference between those two things.
Keeping the military-industrial regime alive, good job.
[QUOTE=evilweazel;42111830]Money runs the world who would have thought It's almost like politicians are thought of as scum almost universally for a reason[/QUOTE] It runs the US. Here in Germany we still have lobbying, but our politics aren't privately financed to that extent.
America is a war economy. They struggle when things are peaceful. Who else will build and sell rebadged toughbooks for $20000 each?
Hurrah for the permanent war economy! Because that totally worked with the USSR!
[QUOTE=pentium;42115071]America is a war economy. They struggle when things are peaceful. [/QUOTE] The American economy can prosper without war. Its done so before plenty of times. The US just needs constant growth to survive which is a bit dangerous.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;42120991]The American economy can prosper without war. Its done so before plenty of times. The US just needs constant growth to survive which is a bit dangerous.[/QUOTE] It has? We've only [I]not[/I] been at war/military conflict for ~20 years of our existence so far. And they weren't consecutive years. While I'm sure we can prosper without war, we do have a large military-industrial complex which is a major- if not the major-player in the American economy, and especially in the public sector side of the economy.
[i]Bombs to set the people free. Blood to feed the dollar tree.[/i]
[QUOTE=Radley;42121079][i]Bombs to set the people free. [/i][/QUOTE] Thats not what the founding fathers and revolutionaries meant with "Liberty or death"
[QUOTE='[Seed Eater];42121029']It has? We've only [I]not[/I] been at war/military conflict for ~20 years of our existence so far. And they weren't consecutive years. While I'm sure we can prosper without war, we do have a large military-industrial complex which is a major- if not the major-player in the American economy, and especially in the public sector side of the economy.[/QUOTE] This military-industrial complex only came about after the Second World War. We may have been at war a lot prior to that, but our economy was far from dependent on it.
How do we, as the people of earth, just tell these people to fuck off? We don't need these wars for profit, and it's becoming ever more clear to everyone that's all they are. So how do we just tell them no? There has to be a way.
[QUOTE=frozensoda;42125226]How do we, as the people of earth, just tell these people to fuck off? We don't need these wars for profit, and it's becoming ever more clear to everyone that's all they are. So how do we just tell them no? There has to be a way.[/QUOTE] Realistically, it will probably never happen.
Sounds like there's a fox in the chicken coop. Sounds like the fox has been there for years, too.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;42121743]Thats not what the founding fathers and revolutionaries meant with "Liberty or death"[/QUOTE] Do you take pride in missing a joke? [editline]9th September 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Moustacheman;42125373]Sounds like there's a fox in the chicken coop. Sounds like the fox has been there for years, too.[/QUOTE] The fox literally [b]OWNS [/b]the chicken coop.
if you think about it wars will become larger and larger as tech removes small time jobs and shit and eventually we will have a majority soldier population on a planet in a state of perpetual war because there's no other way we won't have massive unsustainable unemployment rates and debt then star trek style utopia happens and people realize money isn't shit and everybody gets everything they want and works two days a week
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