• village604@adultswim.fan
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    13 hours ago

    I remember people freaking out about the cost of the Curiosity rover, but it cost less than Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign.

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      3 hours ago

      The cost of presidential campaigns is obscene, and is one of the things ruining this nation.

      Campaign Finance Reform is the issue from which ALL other issues flow. If we intend to seriously reduce corruption in government, we must start by getting money out of campaigns. Any attempt to fight corruption without addressing Lobbying, which is the engine of corruption, fueling campaigns with quid pro quo deals for campaign contributions, is just theater. If a “government reformer” isn’t demanding reforms for lobbying and campaign contributions, they are a liar, and have no intention of really fighting the status quo.