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Campaign contributions bad

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Anyone and everyone who makes an investment does so with the expectation of a return on that investment. Big business is no different, except that they invest in our elected officials.

These investments are referred to as campaign contributions, and the return on these investments comes in the form of a debased acquiescence on the part of our elected officials. This arrangement results in an obscenely low minimum wage, vanishing benefits and pensions and rising healthcare costs for ordinary everyday people, while our elected officials suffer none of this — much to the contrary and all at the expense of ordinary everyday people.

The regularity with which our elected officials receive campaign contributions renders them essentially salaried employees of big business, and the job these public servants perform for big business is to tell ordinary everyday people what to do. In business parlance, they’re our bosses. The president is our boss, the governor is our boss and the congressman is our boss, too.

And each election cycle offers ordinary everyday people the choice of a new boss while providing big business yet another investment opportunity and the employment of yet another leader for ordinary everyday people in their ordinary everyday lives.

Steve Homer

Uniontown

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