Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.
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A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives and our political process.
You will notice that the Occupy Wall Street crowds - and the progressives who support them - focus on bringing the wealthy down to earth rather than lifting the 99 percent. They have a nearly religious belief that too much wealth is fundamentally immoral and unhealthy for society.
Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding.
America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials.
I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it.
The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
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