Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Congressional Fundraising

[Simeon Salus]

Did you know your elected representative spends two thirds of their time fundraising? No wonder the political trend is to pander to the needs of the wealthy while ignoring the needs of most of us.

Hats off to Steve Israel for opening the curtain a bit about this clearly unbalancing practice.

[Dustlawyer]

1. Publicly Funded Elections would solve this!

No wonder they don't even know what is in the bills they pass, they don't have time to read them.

[daleanime]

2. What a great idea....

it's really too bad that no one with great ideas like that is running for president.

[d_legendary1]

3. And then there's the Supremes

who have ruled against publicly financed elections. Wish we'd have someone who truly loves our Democratic Republic on the bench instead of some corporate tool.

[Initech]

4. Working for a call center after watching that sounds like the worst job ever.

I'd rather work at a McDonalds than have to suffer through that.

[LittleGirl]

5. that's what I thought too

Spent more YEARS than I wanted working in a call center for a living and it is something I fear more than death. it's soul crushing to do that work. ugh.

[Initech]

6. I can imagine.

I picture an office environment that's like 100 times worse than the one pictured in Office Space.

[longship]

7. Steve Israel is really cool in this!

That is how a Congress critter acts when they are no longer going to have to play games. Too few make that decision before they decide to retire.

Highly recommended.

R&