Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy
ScruLoose writes:
> Half of the stuff that gets called "campaign contribution" in the US
> would get both parties ten years in jail if you tried it in any other
> democracy in the world.
And half of the stuff that gets called "campaign contribution" in other
parts of the world would get both parties ten years in jail if you tried it
in the US. Look up Kohl in Germany, Berlusconi in Italy, political use of
Government owned television in France, and the political power of British
labor unions.
> How Enron donating a billion dollars (that it got from stockholders by
> fraud) to G. W. Bush's presidential campaign...
No presidential campaign has ever approached a billion dollars in total
cost.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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