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Mossback said:
It used to be only a couple of folks were wealthy enough to buy a Senator, while the rest of 'em had to settle for renting them as needed for their pet project or tax break.
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opensecrets.org is a web site that provides information on who is buying or renting a Senator. A site well worth exploring if your interested in who is buying or renting your Senator.

After watching this website for a couple of decades. Wealthy folks are not stupid. Maintenance costs are very high when you own something. Renting is much cheaper.

Anyway.....here you go

https://www.opensecrets.org/profile...ions?mpid=1141741&cycle=2026&display=combined

https://www.opensecrets.org/profiles/maria-cantwell/us_congress/organizations?mpid=1115945

I must say that MicroSoft maintenance costs are fairly high in one case.

Also if your totally fed up with https://www.recreation.gov/, your probably not going to get anywhere complaining to Senator Murray, notice the rent payment from Booze, Allen, Hamilton.

The Smokey Wire is a bunch of FS and others involved in the environmental wars of the 1990's. Worthwhile site to monitor if you want to see current thoughts of professionals that were there at the time. As I was posting this message, I checked them and they had an article on REC.GOV

https://forestpolicypub.com/2026/06...ec-gov-bots-but-only-writes-to-chief-schultz/.

Getting back to bots and AI I wonder how REC.GOV will function once everybody starts using agents and other aspects of AI?? Is there a reason to AI the great outdoors??

I use to read all the candidates positions on issues before I voted. These days I just go to opensecrets.org or the Washington state site on political contributions and vote on the basis who is renting whom.
 
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Time to get back on topic so this informative thread continues...
 
Salmo_g said:
FBB, I disagree. If you've been observing politics and capitalism since the SCOTUS decision in Citizen United, then you have seen that wealthy capitalists are simply buying the politicians who will be docile servants and restructuring the political landscape to best serve their interests at the expense of the majority of society. Socialism merges economic and political power to serve the interests of society while insufficiently regulated capitalism merges economic and political power to make the top capitalists oligarchs in control of nearly all the money.
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That is so far from the truth.... the scotus ruling on CU means the government cannot restrict independent political expenditures by corporations, labor unions, and other associations, citing First Amendment free speech protections. Note the words labor unions and corporations! Those who are anti-corporation scream money buying influence but that's not what it means at all. When a loss is perceived sound bites go out and stirs up the useful idiots claiming SCOTUS is a Trump puppet. Yet reality is something quite different. SCOTUS is doing their job as the constitution intended. Example.... https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/30/donald-trump-supreme-court-decisions-00982370

If socialism was so great why don't more American live in Russia or Cuba. Cuba started as a communist revolution but practices peaceful socialism. Both have great fishing! No system is perfect but capitalism with Constitutional republic is the best we got and somehow we end up as the greatest superpower in the world. Funny how that works.
 
fatbillybob said:
That is so far from the truth.... the scotus ruling on CU means the government cannot restrict independent political expenditures by corporations, labor unions, and other associations, citing First Amendment free speech protections. Note the words labor unions and corporations! Those who are anti-corporation scream money buying influence but that's not what it means at all. When a loss is perceived sound bites go out and stirs up the useful idiots claiming SCOTUS is a Trump puppet. Yet reality is something quite different. SCOTUS is doing their job as the constitution intended. Example.... https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/30/donald-trump-supreme-court-decisions-00982370

If socialism was so great why don't more American live in Russia or Cuba. Cuba started as a communist revolution but practices peaceful socialism. Both have great fishing! No system is perfect but capitalism with Constitutional republic is the best we got and somehow we end up as the greatest superpower in the world. Funny how that works.
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Explain Elon Musk then....
 
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