Money in Politics

Politics Under the influence and lobbying I support up that a lot interest groups in order to make themselves known they have to spend currency to maintain their presence. During my research I detect a couple effects of m onenessy in Politics. wiz was Health to my understanding physicians and other health professionals argon traditionally the large(p)st obtains of federal campaign contributions in this sector, which it has contributed a record $116. 8 one thousand thousand to federal stackdidates during the 2008 election cycle.I also noticed that pharmaceutical companies and HMOs are systematically generous givers. The health sector as a whole traditionally contributes to republican candidates and parties, certain industries, such as nurses, give more generously to democrats. The fact that the Democratic political party has held office in the historic two terms, the health sector has been more giving towards them. I believe this is really smart, considering the fact that w ealthier people, as far as doctors usually donate more towards the Republican Party.It seems as if they would like to donate their money where there is more control as of now. To my understanding that seems like that they are playing he theme very well. Some of the top contributors in 2011-2012 were, Abelson Drug Clinic, donating an summate of 41 they were considered as an outside consumption group, Cooperative of the Statesn Physicians, donating $2,965,980, also considered as an outside spending group. Another was the American Society of Anesthesiologists, $ 1,565,400, republicans.To me I viewed a lot of this information as, the more money that you have the more of an influence you able to make. alike it has been a kind in money and politics due to the fact that big money has continuously dominated our government and elections. And it has gotten worse since the Supreme Courts, Citizens United ruling in 2010, which allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on o ur elections. But as we saw in the election between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, all the mystical investors that Mitt had didnt win the election.Last year a lot of Independent groups spent about $1 trillion on elections. A lot of the money came from anonymous individuals and corporations. I believe that the line of work in America politics isnt the amount of money these investors or donators spend on campaigns, I think it is more so who is paying for them, or what re they getting in return for their large lump sums of money that they are donating. Another sector that I looked at was the Finance/ Insurance/ Real Estate.The financial sector is the largest source of campaign contributions to federal candidates and parties, with insurance companys securities and investment firms, real estate interests and commercial banks providing the bulk of the money. What I noticed is that unlike the Health sector, the financial sector contributes generous sums to both parties, but republicans ar e traditionally collection more than democrats. Its weird that regarding the mortgage and banking crises in 2008, the financial sector still managed to donate $468 8 million to tederal campaigns and candidates.To me it doesnt seem like the financial sector was going through that much of a crises considering the large amount of money that that was donated, which was a 80 percent increase during the two previous years. Second I order that recipients of campaign money was a very interesting stand point, considering that the political parties and candidates raise very large amounts of money but spend Just as much as hey raised. For instance the Democratic Party raised $1 with debts that add up to $64,614,629.And the Republican Party raised $1,023,169,751 and spent 59,875 with a debt of 24,337,181. The problem with money in politics is not so much the amount that is spent on campaigns as it is who pays for them, what they get in return, and how that affects public policy and spending p riorities. Money that should be going to schools, education, infrastructure, and healthcare is redirected to the raunchy military war machine socialism for the defense industries. Meanwhile, e are cutting teachers, lessons, and many items that make us a civilized nation.These are more effects that money and politics have on my life. I feel that a lot can be done in order to change whats going on within our government. I feel the causes of more money spent within government leaves with the effect of a poor democracy. John F. Kennedy once said Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country. But what is the country doing for average Americans? I hope one day things can change for the better not for the worse, because in the end the average poor American suffers the effects.