How the Obscenely Wealthy are Strangling Our Democracy

http://www.alternet.org/economy/how-obscenely-wealthy-are-strangling-our-democracy?akid=11740.294211.zuJWEQ&rd=1&src=newsletter984467&t=15

The current system allows our government to be bought and paid for by the wealthiest.  The 1% get what they paid for - OUR GOVERNMENT RULES AND REGULATIONS.

 

A new academic paper by Princeton University’s Martin Gilens and Northwestern University’s Benjamin Page has made national headlines by concluding that wealthly Americans almost always get what they want from the political system regardless of what middle-class and working-class people seek from the government.