Why is pay for play a scandal? 100 % do it.

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3. Grow up and accept the status quo of big money in politics

trumping absolutely everything... In other words, we live in an Oligarchy, not a democracy and you are comfortable with that reality.... You must have privilege to be able to make statements like this. Many, many, many citizens in this country have been harmed, hurt, and killed by ther "pay to play" schemes.

Lead in drinking water. Cut backs at OSHA so less people are allotted to oversee work safety (essentially underfunding govt that regulates businesses who don't want over site and don't care if you die from salmonella). Handing out billions in foreign aid, including weapons, to the ME, and yet we can't build better schools or rebuild a bridge? Or how about creating trade deals that actually harm your country? Whose ever heard of giving away a competitive edge before? Hmm, those corporations sure banked big on breaking the American worker. Higher education indebting a nation that must compete with the world now. Or private prison and the judicial system pipelining children into the system and creating an "enslaved" nearly free work population for minorities (more African American men are in prison than were ever enslaved during slave periods).

Pay to Play is illegal! However, the Supreme Court has created law that has essentially locked in political bribery as legal. It sure smells bad and sure feels bad and the American people are being screwed.

I am a grown up, I have children, and I certainly don't teach them to go steal the poor kids lunch. Shoot many days, mine is the "poor kid". I believe we need some sanity in our govt and we absolutely need to get the money out of politics.