If you are wondering why the Democrats seem unwilling to do our

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bidding, here's an example of the real reason behind their planned helplessness.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=adqwxt08ML2Q&refer=us">Pelosi Champions Silicon Valley on Patents, Visas, R&D Funds
By Laura Litvan

April 27 (Bloomberg) -- Silicon Valley companies are poised to score their biggest gains in Washington since the glory days of the Internet bubble, courtesy of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Democrats in the House and Senate are pushing legislation - - including an overhaul of patent law, an increase in visas for highly skilled workers and more federal funds for research and development -- that has long been on companies' wish lists.
This "Innovation Agenda" was developed over the past two years by Pelosi, 67, and other California Democrats in discussions with executives from Silicon Valley companies such as Cisco Systems Inc. and Google Inc. With the Democrats in control of Congress since January, the industry now stands to reap its greatest legislative haul since the late 1990s, when companies such as Microsoft Corp. obtained a liability shield for the "Y2K bug" and enhanced protections for patents and Web addresses.

Last week, Democrats and Republicans in both chambers introduced legislation that would bring the biggest changes to patent law in half a century by making it easier for targets of infringement suits to challenge patents and limiting damages they must pay if they lose... (IOW, they can steal other people's work and don't have to pay if they get caught)

An increase in the number of so-called H-1B visas for highly skilled immigrants, a goal long sought by Microsoft and other companies, may be harder to get through Congress. Bipartisan legislation in the House would raise the number of the three-year visas to 115,000, from the current limit of 65,000, with the possibility of an increase to 180,000

(and here's the payoff)

The pro-business tilt has already yielded benefits for the Democrats, who increased their share of campaign donations from technology companies in the 2006 election cycle. Computer hardware, software and Internet-based companies and their employees donated $1.6 million to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for the last elections, almost double the $833,000 raised in 2004, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington research group.

Parenthetical comments and emphasis are mine

So the next time you hear how it is beyond our capability to accomplish, or that there is no reason to pursue some course of action because it is doomed to failure, remember the real reason they do, or don't do, anything. It's all about the money honey.

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1. It's more about the votes. These people are more concerned about retaining their seats.

The money helps them to be re-elected - that's why they need the bucks.

They are all about being re-elected. That's why until we change the minds of the people who vote and make contributions - these politicians will keep on doing whatever they think will keeep them in office.

In addition, the media is responsible for people voting the way that they do. They allow the right to keep spewing thier propaganda and they also spew it themselves.

The politicians are all puppets and WE (the people) are the marionettes.

Until we get more people to lean our way - we will keep on getting crumbs.

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2. aren't puppets and marionettes synonymous? n/t

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3. I'd say the corporations are the puppet-masters, it is all about their

donations.

The claims of helplessness we keep hearing (to do what we send them to do), are just lies. The people only have one purpose, voting every couple of years, and the fewer that do that, the better. The rest of their time is spent cutting deals to enhance their own lives at the expense of the country.

The things that really get me are that not only do they sell out our interests and our lives for their own purposes, but that they do it so cheaply.

A bill that makes it legal for a corporation to steal billions, or a war that costs thousands of lives, only costs a few million. Any self respecting loan shark would get at least 30% up front and a healthy vig to boost.