Study: You Have 'Near-Zero' Impact on U.S. Policy

[Whiskey_Bravo]

I think most already knew this, but it is disheartening none the less.


http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...-on-U-S-Policy

A startling new political science study concludes that corporate interests and mega wealthy individuals control U.S. policy to such a degree that "the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy."

[Vinh]

Nothing new. Think about how Bloomberg is able to relentlessly torture people-who-work-for-a-living at will.

[Big A]

They had to do a study to figure that out....?

[wildcard600]

this is my shocked face.

[montanadave]

I learned this on the playground fifty years ago: "Money talks and bullshit walks!"

[SteyrAUG]

This is the nature of man, power brokers consolidate power and lock everyone else out.

[yellowfin]

I wonder what the cutoff is for the income level required to be the influential sector.

[KCBRUIN]

I would argue that by supporting groups like the NRA you still have a say in US policy.

[TMS951]

I wonder what the cutoff is for the income level required to be the influential sector.

I would think 300 mil is a good start, but more realistically a billion dollars or more. We have 492 billionaires in the USA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...r_billionaires I would think they are the the power base, more than 500 people seems to be spreading that power a little thin.

Edit to add: Its not the 1% its the .00015%

[ColtSeavers]

They had to do a study to figure that out....?

Agreed. Reminds me of all the hoopla over Dan Brown's "The DaVinci Code" with college professors taking sabbaticals and other professionals to study just how historically accurate it was... only to discover that it wasn't really all that accurate at all.

When all I did was look at the outside of the spine... Fiction... who woulda thought?