b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | | y****t
发帖数: 10233 | 2 the bigger problem is not corporation donation, but public union donation.
from "waiting for superman"
Yet Guggenheim points out in the film that the teachers’ unions essentially
own the Democrats. These unions are the single largest political interest
group by spending, and more than 90% of their donations go to their pet
party. The purpose of all this money is to ensure that no distinctions are
made among teachers — even the worst ones almost invariably get tenure and
then can’t be fired (in 2007, only 10 of 55,000 tenured New York City
teachers were canned). Good teachers, if they happen to be last in seniority
, are the first to be let go in a round of layoffs. All that matters is
preserving and expanding the compensation of union members.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/how_nyc_sch
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| r********n
发帖数: 7441 | 3 马克.吐温竞选州长已经愤过了，写得确实挺好的，美国的民主政治有他合理的一面，
但是弊端也是显而易见的 | m********c
发帖数: 13337 | 4 那是支持的个人和团体捐的。
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| v***t
发帖数: 27100 | 5 拉动内需，你不懂
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| O*******d
发帖数: 20343 | 6 马克吐温的《竞选州长》，如今在美国还在上演。 我们正在观赏一场活生生的《竞选
州长》。
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: 马克.吐温竞选州长已经愤过了，写得确实挺好的，美国的民主政治有他合理的一面，
: 但是弊端也是显而易见的
| x*****u
发帖数: 6559 | 7 这个super pac 很讨厌。 但又是言论自由。 不的不赞叹美国制度好。 | O*******d
发帖数: 20343 | 8 THE GALAXY, December 1870
MEMORANDA.
BY MARK TWAIN.
RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR.
A few months ago I was nominated for Governor of the great State of New York
, to run against Stewart L. Woodford and John T. Hoffman, on an independent
ticket. I somehow felt that I had one prominent advantage over these
gentlemen, and that was, good character. It was easy to see by the
newspapers, that if ever they had known what it was to bear a good name,
that time had gone by. It was plain that in these latter years they had
become familiar with all manner of shameful crimes. But at the very moment
that I was exalting my advantage and joying in it in secret, there was a
muddy undercurrent of discomfort "riling" the deeps of my happiness -- and
that was, the having to hear my name bandied about in familiar connection
with those of such people. I grew more and more disturbed. Finally I wrote
my grandmother about it. Her answer came quick and sharp. She said:
You have never done one single thing in all your life to be ashamed of --
not one. Look at the newspapers -- look at them and comprehend what sort of
characters Woodford and Hoffman are, and then see if you are willing to
lower yourself to their level and enter a public canvass with them.
It was my very thought! I did not sleep a single moment that night. But
after all, I could not recede. I was fully committed and must go on with the
fight. As I was looking listlessly over the papers at breakfast, I came
across this paragraph, and I may truly say I never was so confounded before:
PERJURY. -- Perhaps, now that Mr. Mark Twain is before the people as a
candidate for Governor, he will condescend to explain how he came to be
convicted of perjury by thirty-four witnesses, in Wakawak, Cochin China, in
1863, the intent of which perjury was to rob a poor native widow and her
helpless family of a meagre plantain patch, their only stay and support in
their bereavement and their desolation. Mr. Twain owes it to himself, as
well as to the great people whose suffrages he asks, to clear this matter up
. Will he do it?
I thought I should burst with amazement! Such a cruel, heartless charge -- I
never had seen Cochin China! I never had beard of Wakawak! I didn't know a
plantain patch from a kangaroo! I did not know what to do. I was crazed and
helpless. I let the day slip away without doing anything at all. The next
morning the same paper had this -- nothing more:
SIGNIFICANT. -- Mr. Twain, it will be observed, is suggestively silent about
the Cochin China perjury.
[Mem. -- During the rest of the campaign this paper never referred to me in
any other way than as "the infamous perjurer Twain."]
Next came the "Gazette," with this:
WANTED TO KNOW. -- Will the new candidate for Governor deign to explain to
certain of his fellow-citizens (who are suffering to vote for him!) the
little circumstance of his cabin-mates in Montana losing small valuables
from time to time, until at last, these things having been invariably found
on Mr. Twain's person or in his "trunk" (newspaper he rolled his traps in),
they felt compelled to give him a friendly admonition for his own good, and
so tarred and feathered him and rode him on a rail, and then advised him to
leave a permanent vacuum in the place he usually occupied in the camp. Will
he do this?
Could anything be more deliberately malicious than that? For I never was in
Montana in my life.
[After this, this journal customarily spoke of me as "Twain, the Montana
Thief."]
I got to picking up papers apprehensively -- much as one would lift a
desired blanket which he had some idea might have a rattlesnake under it.
One day this met my eye:
THE LIE NAILED! -- By the sworn affidavits of Michael O'Flanagan, Esq., of
the Five Points, and Mr. Kit Burns and Mr. John Allen, of Water street, it
is established that Mr. Mark Twain's vile statement that the lamented
grandfather of our noble standard-bearer, John T. Hoffman, was hanged for
highway robbery, is a brutal and gratuitous LIE, without a single shadow of
foundation in fact. It is disheartening to virtuous men to see such shameful
means resorted to to achieve political success as the attacking of the dead
in their graves and defiling their honored names with slander. When we
think of the anguish this miserable falsehood must cause the innocent
relatives and friends of the deceased, we are almost driven to incite an
outraged and insulted public to summary and unlawful vengeance upon the
traducer. But no -- let us leave him to the agony of a lacerating conscience
-- (though if passion should get the better of the public and in its blind
fury they should do the traducer bodily injury, it is but too obvious that
no jury could convict and no court punish the perpetrators of the deed).
The ingenious closing sentence had the effect of moving me out of bed with
despatch that night, and out at the back door, also, while the "outraged and
insulted public" surged in the front way, breaking furniture and windows in
their righteous indignation as they came, and taking off such property as
they could carry when they went. And yet I can lay my hand upon the Book and
say that I never slandered Governor Hoffman's grandfather. More -- I had
never even heard of him or mentioned him, up to that day and date.
[I will state, in passing, that the journal above quoted from always
referred to me afterward as "Twain, the Body-Snatcher."]
The next newspaper article that attracted my attention was the following:
A SWEET CANDIDATE. -- Mark Twain, who was to make such a blighting speech at
the mass meeting of the Independents last night, didn't come to time! A
telegram from his physician stated that he had been knocked down by a
runaway team and his leg broken in two places -- sufferer lying in great
agony, and so forth, and so forth, and a lot more bosh of the same sort. And
the Independents tried hard to swallow the wretched subterfuge and pretend
that they did not know what was the real reason of the absence of the
abandoned creature whom they denominate their standard-bearer. A certain man
was seen to reel into Mr. Twain's hotel last night in state of beastly
intoxication. It is the imperative duty of the Independents to prove that
this besotted brute was not Mark Twain himself: We have them at last! This
is a case that admits of no shirking. The voice of the people demands in
thunder-tones: "WHO WAS THAT MAN?
It was incredible, absolutely incredible, for a moment, that it was really
my name that was coupled with this disgraceful suspicion. Three long years
had passed over my head since I had tasted ale, beer, wine, or liquor of any
kind.
[It shows what effect the times were having on me when I say that I saw
myself confidently dubbed "Mr. Delirium Tremens Twain" in the next issue of
that journal without a pang -- notwithstanding I knew that with monotonous
fidelity the paper would go on calling me so to the very end.]
By this time anonymous letters were getting to be an important part of my
mail matter. This form was common:
How about that old woman you kiked of your premisers which was beging.
POL PRY.
And this:
There is things which you have done which is unbeknowens to anybody but me.
You better trot out a few dols. to yours truly or you'll hear thro' the
papers from
HANDY ANDY.
That is about the idea. I could continue them till the reader was surfeited,
if desirable.
Shortly the principal Republican journal "convicted" me of wholesale bribery
, and the leading Democratic paper "nailed" an aggravated case of
blackmailing to me.
[In this way I acquired two additional names: "Twain, the Filthy
Corruptionist," and "Twain, the Loathsome Embracer."]
By this time there had grown to be such a clamor for an "answer" to all the
dreadful charges that were laid to me, that the editors and leaders of my
party said it would be political ruin for me to remain silent any longer. As
if to make their appeal the more imperative, the following appeared in one
of the papers the very next day:
BEHOLD THE MAN! -- The Independent candidate still maintains Silence.
Because he dare not speak. Every accusation against him has been amply
proved, and they have been endorsed and re-endorsed by his own eloquent
silence till at this day he stands forever convicted. Look upon your
candidate, Independents! Look upon the Infamous Perjurer! the Montana Thief!
the Body-Snatcher! Contemplate your incarnate Delirium Tremens! your Filthy
Corruptionist! your Loath some Embracer! Gaze upon him -- ponder him well -
- and then say if you can give your honest votes to a creature who has
earned this dismal array of titles by his hideous crimes, and dares not open
his mouth in denial of any one of them!
There was no possible way of getting out of it, and so, in deep humiliation,
I set about preparing to "answer" a mass of baseless charges and mean and
wicked falsehoods. But I never finished the task, for the very next morning
a paper came out with a new horror, a fresh malignity, and seriously charged
me with burning a lunatic asylum with all its inmates because it obstructed
the view from my house. This threw me into a sort of panic. Then came the
charge of poisoning my uncle to get his property, with an imperative demand
that the grave should be opened. This drove me to the verge of distraction.
On top of this I was accused of employing toothless and incompetent old
relatives to prepare the food for the foundling hospital when I was warden.
I was wavering -- wavering. And at last, as a due and fitting climax to the
shameless persecution that party rancor had inflicted upon me, nine little
toddling children of all shades of color and degrees of raggedness were
taught to rush on to the platform at a public meeting and clasp me around
the legs and call me PA!
I gave up. I hauled down my colors and surrendered. I was not equal to the
requirements of a Gubernatorial campaign in the State of New York, and so I
sent in my withdrawal from the candidacy, and in bitterness of spirit signed
it,
"Truly yours,
"Once a decent man, but now
"MARK TWAIN, I. P., M. T., B. S., D. T., F. C., and L. E." | s********n
发帖数: 26222 | 9 据说总额会达到60亿美金
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| O*******d
发帖数: 20343 | 10 任何上台的美国总统，都必须报答把他推上宝座的大金主。 | | | W*****2
发帖数: 1043 | 11 Hillary Clinton won her New York senate seat with $ 33-35 million a few
years ago :-) | i*****g
发帖数: 11893 | 12 这个铁定的，也是某种程度‘合理’的
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: 任何上台的美国总统，都必须报答把他推上宝座的大金主。
| S*********n
发帖数: 4050 | 13 不够土共餐桌挥霍的
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb - 中文网站浏览器
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| M*****8
发帖数: 17722 | 14
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跟墙街族裔轻松窃国几千亿米元纳税人的钱，
还真是微不足道。这还不算联储局的几万亿。
花几十亿，能窃国几千到几万亿，你干不干？
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| g*******d
发帖数: 5873 | 15 肉烂在锅里
这些钱都付给了美国人，创造了很多就业机会
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| g*****c
发帖数: 4378 | 16 title is wrong
not 总有一天
it's everywhere already | l********k
发帖数: 14844 | 17 发信人: SteelDragon (金箍如意), 信区: Military
标 题: Re: 美国着金钱政治总有一天要出大丑闻的
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jan 12 07:30:03 2012, 美东)
不够土共餐桌挥霍的
土工挥霍也是肉烂在锅里，创造就业机会。携款到海外消费，不算在内。不过美国资产
也在海外开工厂，抵消了。
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: 肉烂在锅里
: 这些钱都付给了美国人，创造了很多就业机会
| x****o
发帖数: 29677 | 18 主要是现在通过公司捐款名义，看不到实际是谁出的钱，黑金政治就这么开始
共和党真是毒药 | m**********n
发帖数: 27535 | 19 主党OK
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: 主要是现在通过公司捐款名义，看不到实际是谁出的钱，黑金政治就这么开始
: 共和党真是毒药
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