Dark as in “Dark Money” by Jane Mayer
Let’s say you had 14 billion dollars in 2008. Your brother had the same amount and you knew that you were going to continue to build on that fortune. Would the purpose of your existence be based on making more of that money or would $14 billion be enough? Would you organize a bunch of your fellow billionaires to coordinate their considerable resources for the purpose of protecting your billions from the greedy hands of the government? After all, this is America. If a person wants to get ahead, then they should jolly well learn how to work for it. Government takes away from initiative. It doesn’t add to it. Then, the people went and elected the socialist Barrack Obama. Obviously, they don’t know what’s good for them. They certainly don’t need minimum wage laws or a public health care system or environmental controls placed on the upstanding resource companies you happen to own. Your companies have...