The Best Investment Money Can Buy!

This week, I did something I've really never done in my newspaper column - I went for the full-on, all-out sarcasm/satire to make a point about our economy and our corrupt campaign finance system. You can read the column here.

Without ruining the column, let's just say I try to put on my best Billy Mays. In the get-rich-quick infomercial that has become our economy, it seems the best, highest-yield investment of all isn't in any stock or business plan, it's in politicians and political operatives. Buy a share of Permanent Washington, and you are almost guaranteed to make astronomical profit margins - 22,000 percent or higher, in many cases.

It's a sad commentary, but it's also, unfortunately, rooted in verifiable fact. And the more we expose it, the more we're able to discuss ways of fixing this systemic problem. And remember, there are efforts to fix the problem - everything from the Change Congress initiative to efforts to pass public financing of elections.

Read the whole column here.

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Comments

[gro]

Will the courts continue to equate campaign contributions with free speech? If they can't tell the difference between them, they probably can't define bribery either. For all politicians, money is God.

[LewisWalsh]

gro, I wrote this on March 16, 2009:

"Lawmakers go through all sorts of gyrations and contortions to have it appear otherwise, but the large amounts of money funneled through to the majority of lawmakers to influence legislation is no secret. Such massive expenditures are not seen in any other democracy, or anywhere else. Again, thanks to the elitist Supreme Court. Their decision that money is speech, has disenfranchised all of those who are not filthy rich."

I think that writers such as Sirota would better serve the public interest by advocating enactment of laws and legal challenges to counteract that idiotic and destructive Supreme Court decision.

[avraamjack]

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[CaptainFailmore]

I don't know what's better, the column itself or the fact that the whole time that I was reading it, I heard it in Billy Mays' voice.

Sometimes getting screwed both ways at once is called a gang-bang. I call it politics.