More Americans grasp how the U.S. government actually works. Large corporate interests pay off politicians and bureaucrats to advance their financial interests. In return, those politicians and bureaucrats are responsible for creating new problems for the American people that can be exploited to justify spending huge sums of money — the bulk of which falls into the laps of the large corporate interests.
The pharmaceutical industry, for instance, would love for lawmakers to mandate that Americans purchase and use their products in perpetuity. Big Pharma then pays hospitals, research scientists, and medical doctors to push its products. It privately funds public health agencies, while rewarding ostensibly objective bureaucrats with research grants and promises of future lucrative employment.
Through
its lobbying arms, Big Pharma fills the campaign coffers and family
foundations of elected officials and works hand in glove with lawmakers
to craft legislation that simultaneously expands Big Pharma's profits
and lawmakers' personal stock portfolios. Lawmakers who refuse to play
this corrupt game end up becoming the electoral targets of all those
extra dollars in industry profits, and the stick-or-carrot system
effectively works to eliminate ethical politicians, while elevating
criminals. It's plain old bribery and extortion, and it is how
Washington, D.C. operates.............To Read More....
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