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When wealthy individuals, industries, corporations and weapons suppliers can "invest" (Grover Norquist, the leading light of modern US "conservatism," insists on calling campaign contributions "the best paying investments possible" with "returns" of over 1000%) in candidates with the expectation of quid pro quo approvals of requests for government largesse what results is not government as such, but rather a process of systematic looting of public funds.<br><br> Under these conditions, the actual traditional business of government, protecting the interests of the nation and its citizens, can be expected to atrophy to insignificance. This legalized crime wave represents a sufficient, if not sole, cause for the rapid decline of the US in every area. Even the military, which presumably is supported by vast military expenditures predicated on corrupt political processes, has suffered decline.<br><br>We have witnessed the virtual impotence of US military in war after war from the debacle of the Viet Nam war through the embarrassing spectacles of various invasions of tiny weak countries and culminating in the twin disasters of Iraq and Afghanistan. Every conceivable statistic that can serve as a measure of governmental competence -- health outcomes like infant mortality and longevity, educational outcomes, financial statistics such as national indebtedness and the balance of payments, investments in industrial tooling and transportation infrastructure, responses to natural disasters, the provision of safe food and drug supplies, and every other measure of governmental accomplishment -- has the US falling rapidly into a third world status.<br><br> For the last thirty plus years the US has been under the control of anti-democratic, "pro business" (read pro-thievery) elements in cahoots with gigantic media companies who are the main recipients of campaign contributions. I don't think it will solve all our problems, but doubt if of our problems are going to get any serious attention until we get big money out of politics. <DIV align="right"><BR><i>Herb Ruhs, MD</i> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #dddddd" class="font11">&nbsp;&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0810-23HR.html"><FONT COLOR=blue>PERMANENT&nbsp;LINK</FONT></A>&nbsp;&nbsp;</SPAN></div> <BLOCKQUOTE><i> There's hope of honest government so long as candidates succeed or fail on the basis of begging. My gut proposes complete government funding of all campaigns, with equal but audited funding for every candidate who files. 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