All these folks who look to the Democrats to help people get out of poverty - they're barking up the wrong tree. The fact is, the Democratic Party is bought and paid for by billionaires.
Four professors have crunched the data and made a chart that shows that the Democratic Party gets a large share of its financial support from not just the "one percenters" but from the top ONE HUNDRETH of one percent! Their report can be seen at --
http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.27.3.103 The abstract for the report can be seen at --
http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jep.27.3.103 The chart can be seen at --
https://www.flickr.com/photos/132619688@N06/And, just as you'd expect, this ruling clique is getting plenty of favors in return for their donations.
Several major corporations, (such as General Electric) each of whom make billions of dollars per year in profit, pay zero (or less!) in income taxes! The government hands out many billions of dollars per year to the corporations in tax credits for various corporate practices. Some corporations even receive billions of dollars per year in "refundable tax credits" (similar to Earned Income Tax Credits). They actually pay NEGATIVE income tax! The top 30 recipients of this type of corporate welfare can be seen at --
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-many-fortune-500-cos-paid-0-taxes/ Many "green energy" corporations (like Solyndra) receive many millions per year in government contracts. And, like Solyndra, they've produced nothing in return. Many government grants to "green energy" companies never had any chance of producing any actual products or creating any permament jobs. They were just payoffs of taxpayer money to big time donors to the Democratic Party!
It's called "crony capitalism." In reality, crony capitalism is not true capitalism. It's just cronyism. This ruling clique and their Democrat puppets know very well the value of capitalism. That's why they keep it for themselves! Capitalism and wealth for them, socialism and poverty for the rest of us!
Not all billionaires are alike. The ones who finance the Democrats are mostly top officials in global corporations and Wall Street banks. These corporations have moved millions of U.S. jobs to Mexico and China. These banks have been paid well over a trillion dollars (over the last decade) in interest payments on the national debt. And expect to receive even more in the future! No wonder they finance the Democrats' campaigns to keep them in office! They make HUGE profits from America's skyrocketing debt!
The banks borrow money from the Federal Reserve (who just makes up the money out of thin air) and then loan the money to the government - at a higher interest rate! The government could just borrow directly from the Federal Reserve (or better yet, obey the Constitution and create the money itself!) This would save the taxpayers TRILLIONS of dollars! But then, the Democrats' Wall Street cronies wouldn't be getting those trillions.
In sharp contrast to the Democrats' billionaires are the wealthy individuals who comprise the Koch group. These folks build AMERICAN factories! They create AMERICAN jobs! They pay AMERICAN taxes!
No wonder the Democrats like to demonize them! The Koch group has helped many thousands of American families (if not millions!) become financially self-sufficient - and not dependent on the Democrats!
If you learn nothing else from this article, be sure to remember this: DEPENDENCY IS SLAVERY!!! Dependency is the main policy of the Democratic Party! Everything the Democrats do is designed to keep you enslaved to them!
Democrats are like drug dealers. A drug dealer is not for the addict, he's for the addiction! Likewise, the Democrats are not for poor people, they are for the poverty!
The "mainstream" (corporate owned) media will never tell you this. They constantly demonize people like the Koch group, who BUILD Americans' wealth, and cover for the Democrats' billionaires, who plunder America!
The media gives a pass to the Democrats, and only pretends to oppose the Republican establishment lapdogs (RINOs - Republicans In Name Only) who cave in like a boxer taking a dive, only PRETENDING to oppose the Democrats.
Who are your real friends? It's very easy to tell. Just look at who the "mainstream" corporate owned media hates the most: tea partiers, like Ted Cruz and Trey Gowdy. Any time you see or hear the corporate owned media produce a negative sounding piece, remember WHY they smear those people! The media incites hatred toward them because the tea partiers are trying to defend you against the REAL targets of the Democrats' schemes. The Democrats most strongly hate YOU!
Seriously. How beneficient can the leftists/socialists/communists be when they call THEIR OWN supporters (as Stalin did) "useful idiots"?
Here's one of the handiest tools I've ever found:
http://www.c-span.org/congress/votes/ You can play with it and figure out how to sort the data. It works very easily.
The most informative data are the votes where all the Democrats vote one way, and half of the Republicans join them. This sort of "bipartisanship" is when the political establishment does their biggest favors for the Democrats' billionaires, and the most harm to the American people.
Here's the data from the above chart in numeric form:
Year Labor Other PACs Sm Dnrs Lg Dnrs Top 0.01%
1980 7% 7.4% 66.8% 11.4% 7.4%
1982 7 8 70.8 6.4 7.8
1984 10 12.6 53.4 12.6 11.4
1986 10.6 17 51.6 10.2 10.6
1988 9.8 17.8 38.8 19.4 14.2
1990 17 33.2 29 10.2 10.6
1992 14.2 27 29.2 15 14.6
1994 10.4 20.6 32.4 17 19.6
1996 8 10 47 10.4 22.6
1998 10 14.8 40 12.8 22.4
2000 7.2 10.2 41.2 15.6 25.8
2002 9.6 14.4 30.4 17 28.6
2004 4.6 6.8 40.4 23.8 24.4
2006 5.2 13.6 31.4 20.6 29.2
2008 4.8 10 30.6 32 22.6
2010 6.4 19.6 24 22.8 27.2
2012 6.8 10.6 29.2 23.6 29.8
