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...COMMUNITIES around America work to shut down video game arcades, their elected representatives are playing and more with PAC-men. These PAC-men don't swallow quarters; they plunk bigger bucks into pockets of Washington politicians, a far more dangerous type of gaming that should be restricted immediately...
...Congress, the PACs--basically political finance arms of corporations, trade associations, and unions--are limited to a $5000 contribution per candidate, but they can give to as many candidates as they wish. In Presidential elections, however, they can spend an unlimited amount of money to advocate the election or defeat of a candidate, so long as no official connection exists between the candidate and the PAC. In both instances, money is corrupting the political process in each, solutions exist that Congress should initiate in this upcoming session...
With campaign costs as astronomical as they are, candidates are beholden to PACs for financing, and the PACs have happily bartered their funds for the chance to manipulate legislation. When beer distributors wanted monopoly territories for their distributors, their PAC--appropriately named SIXPAC--gave a total of $35,000 to members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Monopolies. Not surprisingly, the monopoly territories won approval...
There is, of course, usually no formal deal between PAC's and legislators, just an understanding, but if a dairy association shows up at a candidate's fundraising party with a $5000 check, both the giver and the taker understand that the PAC is not rewarding him for a vote on foreign aid. The lobbyist is quite openly giving the money for a favorable vote on dairy legislation. PACs are throwing around a disproportionate amount of weight in Congress. As long as PACs can give with ease, Congressmen have to play the game and accept the badly needed campaign money...
...made of, do you?the hardware and the software and the mouse? Not a chance. The computer is made of you, lady. It's got you all inside it. You wished it here. No, not to do your taxes or to teach you German or to whip you in Pac-Man four out of five. You wished it here because the country was running low on dream time. Which provides equal time. I'm talking social equality. I'm talking freedom with a capital F, like when the railroad first rolled in 150 years ago, roaring and puffing over...