Campaign finance reform

[EricKei]

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachussets) spoke last month about political campaign spending by absurdly wealthy individuals/corporations.

(Transcript available here for those who are at work/are otherwise unable to listen (as hesitant as I am to link to Upworthy) - scroll down to get the transcript link)

[mikoyan29]

It's not going to happen....although you'd think with all the corruption hearings out there, they'd want to think about it.

[s_stabeler]

you forget that just about every single congressman is also corrupt. So nobody acts, because they'd ALL be hurting themselves.

[protege]

So nobody acts, because they'd ALL be hurting themselves.

Warren is doing it simply to attract voters. Our politicians might be corrupt...but they're not stupid. They're not about to bite the hand that feeds them!