are our politicains bought?

[luckyleftyme2]

with the high cost of running for elections have we created a congress that is indebted to big business?
I would like him to go to the people of the United States of America and say, “People of the United States of America, your Congress is bought, your Congress is incapable of making legislation on healthcare, banking, trade, or taxes because if they do it, they will lose their political funding and they won’t do it. But I’m the President of the United States, and I won’t have a country that is run by a bought Congress. So I’m not going to work with a bought Congress and try to be Mr. Big Guy ... I’m going to abandon the bought Congress like Teddy Roosevelt did, and I’m going to go to the people of the United States get rid of the bought Congress." ... Until a President says that’s the problem and says he’s going to fix it, there is no policy that I can possibly see no matter how brilliant your idea may be or your idea or my idea or her idea or your idea at home, is that idea will not happen as long as there’s a capacity to basically fire a politician who disagrees with me by taking funding away from him. Is that a fair assessment?

I think this is more of a reality than we want to admit-

[spartan61]

1. If only this would happen.

Yes, congress is bought and paid for by big business. Just look at how, we the people, are ignored. The polls show that the American people want higher taxes on the wealthy, subsidies for big oil removed, JOBS, offshore penalties, etc. But do the politicians bother to hear us? HELL NO!! They listen to what their big donors tell them to do. If this isn't a call for campaign finance reform, I don't know what is.