Quote of the Day
I am actually amazed at how little money there is in politics. Do you realize that an entire Presidential campaign from start to finish costs well under a billion dollars? I know lots of people with more money than that.
— An early Google employee, now semi-retired in his early 40s.
This is why any hopes at campaign finance reform are doomed. There is too much money at stake. So long as the president can submit budgets for several trillion dollars, the incentive to be able to influence that by almost every sector of society will be too great.
The best you can hope for is transparency, not control.
The ROI for campaign donations by any group is enormous, and the risk is very low.
Comment by Gary — February 15, 2007 @ 8:38 am