As long as lobbyist from Halliburton can write our Energy policy we will always be dependent on foreign oil. And as long as lobbyist from Tyson Foods, Western Union & Wells Fargo decide our Immigration policies, we will always have broken borders & all of the drug/human trafficking that goes with it. And as long as we allow China to manipulate our monetary & Trade policies, we will always have record trade imbalances.
Politicians from both parties allow think tanks funded by big Oil, big Pharmaceutical & big Banking interest to write our domestic policy as well as our foreign policy.
Follow the money:
Who's bought off your candidate?
Barack Obama: Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Capital One, Bank of Montreal, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, Butterfield Bank, Resource Bank, Bain Capital, Mutual of America, Telemundo, La Pietra, Sankatt Investments, Transamerica Investment Mgmt., US Venture Partners, Sony Pictures, Warner Music Group, IBM, Lehman Bros., AT&T, Ticketmaster, Alantos Pharmaceuticals, 20th Century Fox, Aragon Global, UCLA Medical Center, AHMC Healthcare Inc., AV International, Fidelity Ventures, Clifford Law Firm, CCMP Capital, Cypruss Funds Investment Mgmt., Kaman Group, Solimar Ventures, Comcast, Sterne Assets, Citilink Investment Corp., Third Security, COSTCO, Sun Capitol Partners, Tudor Investment, Madison Investment, EMC Capital Mgmt., Bel Air Investment, Mirel Capital, Grandhara Capital, Lehman Bros., GB Capital, Citadel Investments, etc.
John McCain: PVS Chemical, Merrill Lynch, The Bank of NY, Univision, JP Morgan Chase, Near East Resources Ltd., Compass Bank, World Savings Bank, New York Life Insurance, Sanguine Gas Exploration, CISCO Systems, Wachovia Bank, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Moore Capital, The Carlyle Group, Prime Investments, Tenax LLC, Hantz Group, Hilton Hotels, The AES Corp., Highside Capital, New Mountain Capital, Vector Group LTD, Park Avenue Equity Partners, Red Eagle Venture, Star Lincoln Mercury, Pacific Growth Equities, Budweiser, Myers Financial, Globus Capital, Pomeroy & Pomeroy Insurance, Faison Group, Renco Group, Palmer Investments, QWEST, EM Capital Mgmt., FT Ventures, MGM Mirage International, Ameron International, Anderson Energy Corp., Plaines Capital Bank, NYSE Group, etc.
Hillary Clinton: JP Morgan, Citigroup, UBS Investment Bank, Goldman Sachs, Ameriprise Financial, Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, China Industrial, Wachovia Securities, HBO, The Husseini Group, Bank of NY, Verizon, Viking Global Investments, Trilogy Capital, Oaktree Capital, Farrallon Capital, Lanwilo Investments, Cimarron Group, Pharmcare, Entrust Capital, Morgan Stanley, KFC, Cantor Fitzgerald Securities, Charter Communications, Lilby Stearns, Nihigret Group, Black Saut Holding Co., Mahmood investment, America India Foundation, Candela Group, Hellman & Friedman LLC, US Russia Business Council, SBD LLC, Braddock Financial, Bank of SF, Comcast, Sitason International Inc., Cataldo Group, Van Brunt Dubiago & Co., Abrahms Capital, Bear Sterns & Co., Oracle, Scoggin Capital, Sana Security, etc.
NOTE: All the numbers on this page are for the 2008 election cycle and based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically on Wednesday, February 20, 2008.
HOW TO READ THIS CHART: Many presidential candidates receive the bulk of their funds from the same industries and Washington-based special- interest groups that dominate giving to all federal politicians and parties.