Great article from the UK on money in our politics

This article has been out for at least a week and it's a good and important one: Time to get corporate cash out of Congress It is on this one issue that I think all average Americans can agree, regardless of political party or affiliation: "...the US Chamber of Commerce, front outfit for a consortium of corporations, has bragged on its website about outspending everyone in Washington, which is easy to do when Chevron, Goldman Sachs and News Corp are writing you seven-figure checks. This really matters. The Chamber of Commerce spent more money on the 2010 elections than the Republican and Democratic National Committees combined, and 94% of those dollars went to climate-change deniers. That helps explain why the House voted last year to say that global warming isn't real. It also explains why 'our' representatives vote, year in and year out, for billions of dollars' worth of subsidies for fossil-fuel companies. If there was ever an industry that didn't need subsidies, it would be this one: they make more money each year than any enterprise in the history of money. Not only that, but we've known how to burn coal for 300 years and oil for 200. Those subsidies are simply payoffs. Companies give small gifts to legislators, and in return get large ones back – and we're the ones who are actually paying." The fact is, folks, we need to get the big, ugly, corrupting influence of the wealthy's and corporations money out of our election system and so, our government. We need tough, strict, accountable, verifiable, prosecutable campaign finance reform. If we don't do this, we'll never get our government back for us, the people. It will remain as it is, for the wealthy and corporations. Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/jan/05/time-to-get-corporate-cash-out-of-congress