Occupy Underground

While we struggle to find jobs and pay off student debt, millionaires and billionaires continue to pour money into elections, skewing the entire political apparatus towards their needs and desires. It’s so bad that experts have actually proved that the US has become an Oligarchy in terms of how consistently government policy reflects the desires of rich donors, not everyday citizens.. As of October, 2015, 154 families had already spent $174M on the first phase of the 2016 election. The US Chamber of Commerce—the lobby group that represents corporate interests—spent $124M in lobbying in 2014 alone, more than the next four largest lobby groups combined. In 2014, billionaires Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg contributed $75M and $28M, respectively, to campaigns and other political groups. Charles and David Koch, the industrialist brothers worth a combined $100 Billion, have pledged to spend almost one billion dollars on the 2016 election cycle.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-brown2/an-open-letter-to-my-fell_1_b_9274874.html