journalists like ida tarbell and sinclair lewis and a number of others who came along at the turn ofcentury, and great politicians like the republican like teddy roosevelt who said, "you know we are going to put the bit into the mouths of corporate power and make corporations and economic powers serve the publican the other way around". and they created the sherman anti-trust act. they created an income tax for the first time. they created -- they made it easier for unions to organize so that we would begin creating a middle class in this country. they made food and drug reforms so that people couldn't sell bad products on the market and one of the most important things they did was pass a law in 1907 that said that corporations cannot contribute directly to federal political campaigns. and that 100 year old law last year was thrown out by the united states supreme court and all of a sudden you have a floodgate of corporate money.. >> right. >> that is coming into the political process and, you know, most of the people in this room do not have the capacity to affect government anymor