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| Topic | Equality of Corruption |
| Content | Our political system is influenced, if not controlled, by "vote-buying." As a result, our politicians use public dollars to gain votes by means of "pork barrel" spending and "earmarks" (funding additions) to appropriations bills. Every effort to correct the problem has failed because access to funds is a way to sustain political power ----- and our elected officials fight to control as much of the money as possible. The only way to correct this corruption is to help create legislation that will more or less guarantee equal access to such corruption. Under this proposed legislation, every county and every state would be assured equal access to "pork barrel" funds, or "earmark" funds, based on population and last date of such funding received. Thus, powerful politicians would be stopped from funding a few groups over-and-over. Obviously, this legislation needs to be at the federal level ----- but we can start the movement in Oklahoma. |
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