A better use for big campaign war chests – helping the needy
Enough already.
We spent the last 4 years watching the national economy stagger its way back from a knee-bending whack tied to under-regulated banking and mortgage industries.
Yet, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney had, by September, raised almost $2 billion to run for office. That’s a lot of money spent on back-patting and name-calling, and it crossed party lines almost equally: As of September, The New York Times has reported, Obama had raised $934 million and Romney took in $882 million.
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