Dear Editor:
Ever since the disastrous Supreme Court decision Citizens United for the FEC (Federal Elections Commission) that has allowed unlimited financing of politicians by corporations in all elections here in the U.S. money has flowed like water in the recent floods.
In a report that came out June 30, 2015, 16 of 17 Republican candidates have already collected over $368 million, mostly so-called dark money. That's money that can't be traced. Only Trump has refused those funds to date. These funds have been contributed by just 54 of the richest in America and they will call all the shots if any of these Republican candidates are elected in the next election cycle.
In a recent report it has been predicted that the 2016 presidential election will be the costliest presidential election ever which this reporter has estimated will exceed $10 billion dollars. These candidates are already bowing down to these contributors and will continue to do their bidding if elected.
There have been several proposals to repeal that disastrous Supreme Count decision but almost all Republicans in Congress have voted against it. It is just a matter of time that there will be two or three major corporations that will control every aspect of government in these United States if something isn't done to reverse that fateful decision.
That's the way it was in the late '20s when the big Depression started. That was in the era of the Rockefellers, the Carnegies and several others. They has control of most of the money and had it tied up so the rest of the people had no use of it and this caused worst depression this country had ever witnessed.
As we all know the big Depression of the '30s followed three straight Republican presidential administrations of Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. It took a Democrat to straighten that out, the administration of FDR.
Just as it took President Obama to bring this country back from the brink following two terms of Republican George Bush. And Obama did it despite 100 percent Republican obstruction.