Together, give or take, Tom Styer and Michael Bloomberg have spent about 125 million dollars on advertising for their political campaigns. It’s estimated that it would cost around 650 million dollars the first year and about 350 million per year after that for California to house its entire homeless population in shelters.
So what’s wrong with this picture?
The money spent on political campaigns is simply obscene.
Overall, for both sides, the 2016 election cost 2.4 billion dollars. The 2012 election cost 2 billion. 2008 cost a mere 785 million for Obama alone.
To spend that money that way is worse than outrageous. It’s obscene.
When you start to think about all the things that could be done with that money, all the ways the government could put that money to use, all the ways the government could and should better control how our taxpayer money is spent… It just boggles the mind.
For the most part, that is money being put in the garbage. Worse, with today’s multi-billionaires working out front and behind the scenes, what you see is the buying of elections, money now controlling who gets elected, who gets elected as judges and governors and senators and state district attorneys, and on and on.
So what’s wrong with this picture?
Or is it not clear?
While those Despicable Democrats lambaste Trump for being rich and lambaste the rich for getting richer, they, themselves, are buying into the whole process of buying political jobs, elected and otherwise.
And this, having money, the uber-rich, buying and/or effecting elections with their own money is the same as saying you can buy your own agenda to be run in this country.
And it is. And that’s how it goes.
The very fact that more that 60 per cent of our congressmen and senators are millionaires, most of those people multi-millionaires, well, that pretty much says it all.
We’re being played.
Now there’s nothing wrong with people being very rich. There’s nothing wrong with Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg, and Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg having all the money they have. And by the way, Trump, who is so hated for his being rich, is poor compared to these guys. But there’s something wrong with them being allowed to use that money to buy America, to control thought in America, to control media such that while it claims to be free press it is biased press.
And there are others behind the scenes who are maybe worse. But that’s not the point. The idea that a small group of people can control a good chunk of social media and news media and can literally buy local state elections—there’s something wrong with that.
So, when you come to look at the cost of this new election and all that’s involved in it, from the money spent by the politicians and their parties to the control exerted by the media moguls to effect who wins, it all becomes extremely obscene.
The way to change things by ending our political class, the American Politburo who are now American oligarchs, is clear: simple term limits across the board. And the way to stop the obscenity of the wasted money for political campaigns is to simply ban spending past a certain amount.
The money being spent on politics is obscene and we are being played.
