a half century or century to after the accident when the railroad oil steel and robber banking robber barrons were walking on the floor of the senate to hand their favorite members of congress literally bags of cash prompting republican president rutherford b. hayes to say in eight hundred seventy six this is a government of the people by the people and for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations and for corporations and of quote. publican president teddy roosevelt put that in check in one thousand seven bypassing the tillman act which made it a felony for a corporation to give money to a politician but the supreme court blew that up in two thousand and ten with theirs for the citizens united decision the only way to end of this insanity is to get the money is to get on board with the movement to get the money out of politics go to move to amend dot org that's it for the big picture tonight for more information on the stories we covered visit our...