[lbo-talk] biz abandons GOP for Dems

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 17 05:49:32 PDT 2007


On Oct 17, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Robert Wrubel wrote:


> "In the first nine months of 2003, the top 25
> financial services political action committees donated
> $6.8 million to members of Congress. Of that, 38
> percent went to Democrats and 62 percent to
> Republicans."
>
> I'm always impressed at how little it costs, in
> relation to the benefits, to buy Congress.

Isn't it amazing? Even a presidential campaign would be a fraction of the Goldman Sachs bonus pool. Talk about leverage - a few scores of millions and you can control the U.S. gov!

Doug



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