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Democracy For SaleBy DrAbuelo(2,706) When we hear about presidential candidates it this time a year, either during election years or pre-election years, it is usually regarding how much money they raised during their latest pandering tour. You can look at any one of the front runners in next year’s election. They have all eclipsed the record for the most expensive campaigns in history. This is not only the Barak Obama or Hillary Clinton camps but, also those of Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, who now leads the both John McCain and Giuliani on fund raising. When the number two or three runner in a political race brings in $25,000 dollars or even 15,000 million dollars the year before the elections are even set to occur, the question that begs asking, what is the future in the importance of the voter. What has become so painfully obvious in the up election is that each candidate is set to represent the highest bidder. Let’s take a look at where the front runners from both parties stand on some key issues. Hillary Clinton supports perhaps the biggest weapon against the poor in the United States that would be the Death penalty and the prison industrial system. As the first lady, she looked to expand the death penalty be demanding DNA testing to be involved in the sentencing process. Monsanto will also make out like fat hogs if she gets elected. Clinton is a huge supporter of ethanol. Those of use who have worked on energy issues can tell you this about any plant related fuel; the exhausted is methane gas which is a heavier and more dense green house gas that will only worsen the global warming situation. She is also in support of increased profits for the oil companies, as long as they invest them in alternative fuel. John Edwards also supports the death penalty which is odd considering he is running as the champion of the poor. It has often been used against those who often can’t afford quality lawyers. Yes committing murder is wrong but, it has shown no statically relevance in working in curbing violent crimes. The vast majority of on death row come from the poorest communities across America and often is people of color. No one on death row has a gold card. He also supports the increased funding in homeland security to sell off the US’s borders. Rudolph Giuliani: Giuliani has taken the side of the big oil companies calling the human cause of global warming, debatable. This is despite endless testimony from environmental scientists who that there is little or no doubt that human activity is the main cause of climate change. He is also an avid fan of the death penalty. When it comes to health, he supports George W Bush’s plan to privatize our health care system and has come out against universal health care. Under his plan, there is no doubt more Americans would be uninsured. He also supports an increase in troops in Iraq and an Immigration policy similar to that of George W Bush’s. John McCain: Well, he is clone of Bush so, just look over the last 6 years here and the listen to the Address the Nation speeches and you’ll know here McCain stands on the vast majority of the issues. Except for John Edwards, all the other candidates support a global economy, including Barak Obama. More importantly since the advent of institutions like IMF and WTO were formed, more major multi national corporations have had an open door into the offices of most of this nation’s major political figures. And now we can take look at the Bush administration as the perfect example of the outcome to this situation. The result has ranged from an energy policy written by the largest oil companies in the US including Southern energy and First Energy. The reason why these two companies are important is because these are two power industries that were used in the movie “The China Project” according to Greg Palast. You also have environmental policies written by large logging companies and an international policy that lines the pockets of suck major arms dealers and paramilitary troops for hire, as “Shadow group,” Black Water,” “Doe Chemical” Monsanto and other war profiteers. If one were to listen honestly to what is being sold to us as “policy,” which is now little more than the selling off of the remainder of our rights, you will not hear about the fixing of a corrupted voting system or how to announce a war on poverty, though there does seem to be a war on poor people. The ugly fact that neither party can get around is the fact that they still need the voters. That ultimately goes into the political coffers of the leading candidates to persuade us why we shouldn’t vote in our own best interest, preferably a third party at this point. So while Ralph Nadar is still being paraded as a villain, it might be asked what the other side has to offer those that they come to all of once in four years,
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