How Big Money Bought Our Democracy, Corrupted Both Parties, and Set Us Up for Another Financial Crisis

Moyers talks to President Reagan’s former budget director and to Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times about the way Wall Street runs Washington.

January 22, 2012 | ”Crony capitalism is about the aggressive and proactive use of political resources, lobbying, campaign contributions, influence-peddling of one type or another to gain something from the governmental process that wouldn’t otherwise be achievable in the market. And as the time has progressed over the last two or three decades, I think it’s gotten much worse. Money dominates politics.”

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Robin Pugh-Perry is an agent for change. She received her Master of Human Services degree in 1994 from HBCU Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania and has spent many years as a community activist with regard to the education of our youth and the impact of mass incarceration on our youth as well. Robin, who is also a proud mother and grandmother, retired after a 30 year run as a systems analyst with the City of New York in 2008. Robin, who was born and bred in Brownsville, Brooklyn NY, is also the creator and administrator of the Brownsville, Brooklyn NY Facebook page. She started it to reach out to a few of her childhood friends in 2009 and as of January 2012, the page has grown to close to 17,000 fans from all over the world.

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