BILLIONAIRES AND BAGMEN

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A Novel with a Political Blueprint

Billionaires and Bagmen may be the most conspicuously non-fiction novel ever written.

when injustice becomes law civil disobedience becomes dutyWhether in Burlington or Dallas, Colorado Springs or Boston, Seattle or Phoenix, San Francisco or Bozeman, a hell of a lot of Americans are coming to the same conclusion: We are sick of taking our marching orders from arrogant political windbags, and their allied lobbyists, in Washington. We are tired of the super-rich and multi-national corporations running our government and our lives. Enough! [Read more…]

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Money and Politics

bribe money in politics
Caution Bribe Coming Through – Represent.US marchers, 2013

When you talk about the hundreds of millions of dollars that multi-billionaires use to exercise what the US Supreme Court thinks of as their First Amendment Rights–after all, corporations are just people like us, it’s hard to fathom what you’re really describing. By any measure it’s a hell of a lot of money.  And as Jess Unruh pointed out, in America “Money is the mother’s milk of politics.” [Read more…]