The Business of Politics

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   If there is one saying that strums the heart-string of America, it's this; "Money Talks". And the realm that it strikes most true in is politics.

   In the land of politics, it's the donors that pull the strings and make the decisions. Election year is like a NASCAR Race, with the only difference being politicians don't wear the labels of who owns them. 

   If you break it down you'll see the sense in it. Why do companies put so much money into NASCAR? So they can slap their name on the driver or the car for millions of viewers to see. They pay for all the parts and labor needed to put out a car and driver, all to sell more product which benefits them. 

   But, here's the real thought. Companies are putting all this money into these politicians, but don't put their label on them. What do they get out of it?

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   Well, if we look at it from a business prospective, it's an investment. When an investor puts their money into a project, at least a part of the ownership belongs to the investor. There would be no project without the money, so the designers of the project give away a part of the ownership to the investor to gain access to the money. 

   In these contracts, the investor has say in how the project runs and in decisions the project makes. When there is more than 1 investor in said project, the investors are the ones that pull all the strings. Hence why there are boards of directors for every major corporation.

   Now, correlating this to politics is very simple. The investors stay the same, and you can input just about any politician as the the "project". I haven't seen one politician come in wearing a racing jacket with Exxon Mobil on it yet, so you can deduce that corporations are behind the scenes pulling the strings. 

   Most politicians don't go into politics for the sake of their fellow people, but for power. Companies provide the monetary means to achieve that power, for only the small price of doing certain things for them when time comes. 

   Unless you've been living under a rock for the past 100 years, you can see that companies don't care about the masses. So, politicians become servants of corporations instead of servants of the people.  

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   You can shake your head and argue, but here are some questions I would like you to answer first. 

   How is that John Quincy Adams, Rutherford Hayes, Benjamin Harrison and George Bush won the election, even though they lost the popular vote (Votes made by the People)? Who is the electoral college? Why is Barack Obama suddenly fighting for TPP? Why did the Watergate Scandal happen? Why are we off the gold standard? Why did the government bail out major corporations time and time again? Why do corporations get most of the federal funding? Hmm.

   Before you vote another person in that's run by corporations, see who is giving them money. Remember that when you vote that person in, you're voting in those corporations too. 

   Brad Slaughter is a Co-Owner of Try-Fun Fitness & Training, Writer for Inside My Inquisitive Mind, Producer, Entrepreneur and trained in Social Media Marketing By Corsera. 

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