I was curious about how much was spent on the 2012 Presidential and Congressional election campaigns and was amazed to find that it was in the vicinity of $7,000,000,000. That's 7 billion dollars........ SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS. Can you believe it? I didn't go too much past the first few sentences of the article when I had reached my TMI (too much information) threshold. I stopped reading and started writing.
Since I didn't read the whole article I don't know who benefitted the most from all that money, but I do know that I was frustrated by the ads on television, the inability to really know where the candidates stood on issues or whose "truth" was the TRUTH. We don't contribute money to political campaigns, don't put bumper stickers on our vehicles, have always registered to vote as Independents wherever we have voted and don't go to political rallies or caucuses. It's wonderful that we have the right to vote and all the other rights afforded us by the Constitution, but it seems that more and more of our rights are being compromised by the officials we have been electing and the officials the elected officials have been appointing to positions of power in our bureaus, departments, committees and courts.
Wouldn't it be a novel idea to take some of the money contributed to politicians, and put it to use in addressing issues like hunger, crime, homelessness, medical research, lowering the cost of prescriptions and medical care.............and so on. Then we might be able to cut back on how often we say "it costs HOW MUCH?" and maybe even give our Social Security recipients a cost of living increase for 2016.
Now, about that $13,000,000,000,000, that's 13 trillion dollars........THIRTEEN TRILLION DOLLARS National Debt...........................
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