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'Since 2000, the finance sector has funneled a total of $2.84 billion directly into the political system, $961 million in donations to candidates and political parties, $1.88 billion in publicly disclosed lobbying expenditures to influence Congress and the executive branch.'
--From former Washington Post reporter Tom Edsall's eye-opening new piece in the Huffingtonpost. The emphasis was ours. Look for future installments of TYLBR.
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The pharmaceutical companies give them a run for their money:
Amount spent on marketing and "administrative costs" by the 11 biggest drug companies in 2004:
$100 billion
add to that 675 million for lobbying
And that's just one year!
Not that I'm getting into it. I'm so not getting into it.
http://www.nakedauthors.com/2008/03/shot-in-dark.html
In the race for the title of which industry is the worst, I'd call that a toss up. This stuff is why an increasing number of people have bumper stickers that say something to the effect of "we don't have elections, we have auctions."
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