Most people are aware of the stranglehold big business has over our government. In my opinion, the problem can’t be fixed without campaign finance reform. Many of the laws that are made to protect big business, or are NOT made to protect average Americans are negotiated in the background and then justified to the public with dramatic spin. Matt Taibbi has a great article in this month’s Rolling Stone with Russell Brand on the cover, illuminating why finance reform will not be as potent as it should be to protect average Americans. The insidious manipulation by big business and it’s lobbyists must be countered for government to represent the interests of those below the top of the pyramid. There is a great organization called Fix Congress First whose goal it is to counter these problems. The web site is http://www.fixcongressfirst.org/.

For Matt Taibbi’s Rolling Stone article click here.

Thanks for caring,
Shepard