a lot with the five it's subsidized fossil fuels and nuclear. another factor that contributes to the lack of regulation by congress is the proverbial revolving door. on a congressional delegation is known as the all delegation our senators when every tarak go to work as a lobbyist for walling gas there's a two year cooling off period before you could become a lobbyist out of the senate senator lott resigned from the senate one month before the end of the session so he didn't have to wait two years he only had to wait one year and then he had a party with john breaux invited all kinds of people to celebrate when the one year was over and now the breaux a lobbying firm is very successful they have lots of energy clients lots of oil violence little plants gas clients and them a lot of power. to see.

your of the oil industry which is enormously don't wish to avoid future about somalia campaign contributions but this is a very very short law if you proceed oh dear if washington d.c. and they've got a number of people on their leash. with only five hundred thirty congress members the ratio of lobbyists to congress in d.c. is almost one hundred to one there's probably one hundred thousand people in the lobbying business in washington d.c. so it's big business after the federal government lobbying is the next biggest business in washington d.c. . lobbyists function as the razor to cart off for big industry making sure congress does their bidding but big oil uses a far more aggressive means of tightening its leash around congress' neck here's the reality you're sitting there is a billionaire you make money a wall street making money maybe your ex. no but you should know contribute to some

fully front organization which can then what millions and millions of millions of dollars on television ads into campaigns for this country what it really is saying is that we are giving unbelievable power to him full of people who control the politics and the nature of our democracy. on a national scale you know companies have huge power over our government. but didn't we throw those old guys out in the last election. didn't we elect the guy who is going to change things. i believe that americans of every political stripe are desperate they are hungry for a new kind of hope that. most people who are willing to go to go in because they care about what happens there to change something.

i will never forget this victory truly belongs to us. it belongs to you. it belongs to you. brock obama or in the most successful campaign ever it was very smart it was very well done it was articulately laid out and they capitalized on the desperation in this country and it was so prevalent i don't want them. to bring about a sensible energy policy discovery at. eleven billion dollars this past quarter. seasonally. you know a lot of people on the left demonized prison which thought it was all about evil president bush and if you could just get rid of bush in light movement take over and we'd all be driving around in solar powered cars and life would be beautiful within three or four weeks. chris

hedges it's a form of war correspondent author of nine books and a member of the new york times pulitzer prize winning team a democracy gives expression to the desires and concerns of ordinary citizens whether that's through the press whether labor unions whether the culture an oligarchy exists and co-ops all of those institutions if you're a billionaire you can sit down and say ok i'm going to put three hundred thousand dollars into the race in colorado four hundred thousand dollars into mexico half a million dollars into vermont and use for them about it and nobody has to know who i am i can do that with no disclosure whatsoever this is a huge step backwards for democracy it's a step forward for oligarchy where a handful of extraordinarily wealthy individuals and large corporations have a major major major influence over all political life after the obama

administration came in with his big hopes of changing everything getting serious about energy getting serious about global warming in certain ways has been as disappointing as president bush was. there's a great deal of in tipis the distrust even anger toward liberals and i don't think it's misplaced it was the democratic party under bill clinton that deregulated the banking system allowed our commercial banks to become hedge funds and precipitated the meltdown that we are now undergoing. this was done consciously bill clinton understood that if he did corporate bidding he would get over money can buy the one nine hundred ninety s. the democratic party late ninety's and fund raising parity with the republican party and by the time barack obama ran for president they got more. when have the american people been as betrayed investing so much hope energy money and brock. obama's campaign. today we're announcing the expansion of offshore oil and

gas exploration. meddling take responsibility for solving this crisis and the president and the buck stops with me. obama flies down to florida jumps in the water briefly with his daughter for the photo op and from that point on most of the media has left beaches all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business that's one of the reasons michele saussure and i are here. in reality neither he nor his daughter touched the water of the gulf they swam at st andrews bay a protected area. what happened with safety regulations in the gulf of mexico in the wake of the b.p. disaster rename a couple of agencies change a couple of faces business as usual full steam ahead what does that tell you.

the administration that it promised us change made no alteration to be antiquated spill response plan that still cites wall versus the most threatened species in the gulf of mexico and it still lists deceased people as the contacts and policemen emergency. obama might have had a good reason to tread carefully when he dealt with the spill the largest oil consumer in the world as the us the farm and the fans and gas which company is the pentagon's single largest supplier of fuel to b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil. during the last ten years b.p. has been the single largest energy contractor to the various branches of the u.s. military receiving over seventeen billion dollars in direct contracts for jet and

diesel fuel oil is true and b.p. in particular is crucial to the military intelligence and diplomatic complex. on june sixteenth two thousand and ten obama called a meeting at the white house with b.p.'s c.e.o. tony hayward it's managing director bob dudley. and its chairman of the board carl hendricks bamberg the us government took no action against b.p. for its executives instead it agreed that b.p. would simply create a claims fund for victims of the oil spill the people of the goals have my commitment that b.p. will meet its obligations to them. as publicly pledged to make good on the claims that almost of the people in the gulf. large oil companies are greedy companies or don't. think lazy week.

four days after his meeting with president obama tony hayward was enjoying a yacht race in england. instead of being fired in the wake of the gulf oil spill hayward was sent to run b.p.'s operations in russia and it was back to business as usual you can throw out tony hayward and just another one out of their frankenstein machine with a different hairdo and a different name they all operate they say you got to get the oil out the cheapest way is the filthiest most dangerous way in the most corrupt way. that's what makes these guys rich. by january of two thousand and eleven the obama administration announced it would start issuing permits for new drilling operations in the gulf of mexico why you may wonder big oil is paying the federal government or percentage of

walty that comes out of each barrel that comes out of the ground it's enormous amount of money. behind the i.r.s. the collection of offshore oil field revenues and royalties is the second largest generator of money. united states government. the first new permit issued by the obama administration was for a while in the gulf of mexico operated in partnership with b.p. . it is displayed zuko last of all not only in charge of being responsible for the. sewer searching for the. past me valve the impossible are to you there are seeing is a plateau for the masses of pursuit stage and this stuff.

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