Who Owns Congress? A Campaign Cash Seating Chart

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What if members of Congress were seated not by party but according to the industries which gave them the most money over their entire careers?

This is a very interesting article/analysis... visually gets the point across - go to the article to see the visuals.

The Senate

SECTOR | # OF MEMBERS

Finance, insurance, and real estate 57
Lawyers and lobbyists 25
Health 5
Agribusiness 3
Labor 2
Energy and natural resources 2
Miscellaneous business 2
Communications and electronics 1
No money raised 3
Total seats | 100

The House

SECTOR | # OF MEMBERS

Labor 159
Finance, insurance, and real estate 159
Health 26
Agribusiness 23
Lawyers and lobbyists 20
Miscellaneous business 18
Energy and natural resources 10
Defense 7
Transportation 6
Communications and electronics 4
Construction 1
Unfilled seats 2

Total seats | 435

So, to put it bluntly, and in short - the BANKS own congress.

Whilst I would normally say, "Tell us something we don't know!", I think this will help the uneducated (in these matters) begin to understand that we are all just traded assets. Vote-capable collateral.

This article is splendid and needs to be flagged and starred.

Rev.

To most people, I really don't think this would be a surprise.

ESPECIALLY the insurance companies!

Hell! Why do you think we have half the laws in this country!

It's to protect the insurance companies money/profits!!!!

Most things in our lives SHOULD be a choice, let's take for example, "WEARING A SEAT BELT", and exactly WHY should OUR government make it a LAW that we should HAVE to wear a seat belt?

Exactly where in the US Constitution, is this power given to the Federal Government?

It's not, but how did the Federal Government get all the states to pass this law?

They told them if they didn't mandate that everybody needs to wear a seat belt, they would cut funding on federal roads and other things.

The same thing as when the drinking age changed, I think in most if not ALL the states, from raised from 18 to 21years old!

Why did that happen, the Federal Government threatened to cut funding for roads and other things in EVERY state unless they raised the drinking age to 21!

And why?

Ask yourself if insurance companies again would have an interest in this and their "profits".

Do you really think they were actually just concerned about the younger people getting into accidents and being hurt or dieing, or maybe a profit margin?

Did insurance rates then go down for people under 21 then?

Think again.

Okay, let's look such a simple thing as smoke detectors/fire alarms in public buildings.

Is it a good thing? Of course it is!

BUT, who has the most to gain monetarily-wise if fires are caught earlier, the insurance companies, there is less damage to the structure for the insurer to pay if the fire is caught earlier.

And who funded some of the USA's first fire departments to protect their profits?

History of firefighting

However the United States did not have government-run fire departments until around the time of the American Civil War. Prior to this time, private fire brigades compete with one another to be the first to respond to a fire because insurance companies paid brigades to save buildings

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Is this a bad thing? Of course not, if any one of us had a fire in their home at least we now have the comfort of knowing that a/the fire department will be on their way and will try to put the fire out.

BUT, now you HAVE to pay, in your taxes, funding for fire departments, even if your home is a little log cabin on top of a mountain with no electricity, your property taxes will help fund the fire department even if they could never even get their equipment to a fire there.

Speed limits, people drive slower, less damage/accidents, insurance companies have to pay out less.

I'll bet, okay, I'm going out on a limb here now, that almost half the laws we have, can be traced backed to where it SOMEHOW benefits the insurance industries profit margin!

Originally posted by Iamonlyhuman
motherjones.com...

What if members of Congress were seated not by party but according to the industries which gave them the most money over their entire careers?

This is a very interesting article/analysis... visually gets the point across - go to the article to see the visuals.

The Senate

SECTOR | # OF MEMBERS

Finance, insurance, and real estate 57
Lawyers and lobbyists 25

82% is loyal to the banking and legal industry

Green dots = Finance, insurance, and real estate 57
Brown dots = Lawyers and lobbyists 25

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Double down on the Depression anyone?