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I am honestly not surprised at all about what the video has to say. It's wrong that this type of stuff is allowed to happen in our country our government looks a lot more like an oligarchy than a republic. Personally I think money and power corrupts people and that's what's happening in our congress as soon as a lobbyist approach a congressmen with some cash the people's voice he represents flys right out the window. What we need is a strong progressive leader that will crack down on this corruption like Theodore Roosevelt did back in the early 1900's. It is downright outrageous that the people spending money on our politics spend 5.8 billion and in return make 4.4 trillion which is coming from the taxpayers. As a united states citizen and

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