A thought about giving to politicians

Somehow I started wondering last night about some imaginary little old lady from Pennsylvania, living off her modest Social Security monthly check, who might have been moved to send $10, just $10, to Hillary Clinton's campaign, thrilled at the thought we might have our first woman president. Then she learns (as we all did) that Hillary and her husband raked in over $100 million in personal income over the last seven years.

Here's somebody asking for money for her campaign from people who are so much poorer than herself. And people give...

I wonder why.

I can think of at least two reasons not to give anything to any politician. One is to save your money so you can afford the taxes these people will eventually cost you. The second one is to prevent waste, because the money is inevitably wasted on TV commercials you'd rather not see or hear, or high-priced consultants expert at manipulating public opinion.

There must be more reasons still.

Good Reason

Submitted by zoes on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 11:43am.

I have an excellent reason why no one should give to a political campaign. It should NEVER be about 'who has the most money, wins' and that is very much what it looks like. With the WWW (that's world wide web, not world wide wrestling) and our ever-reaching ability to communicate with one another without biased media, the scramble to raise the biggest bucks is even more disgusting.

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