Raising Cash For Elections.

       It's getting so you shouldn't own a phone or computer or accept mail from the post office. It used to be you got a flyer from a candidate or two, a month or so before the elections. Then you got a few more. Then signs started appearing on people's front lawns. Next came some ads on TV. Then bigger money started getting involved. That's when you stopped hearing about stump speeches so much and ads started getting nasty. Bigger lies brought on even bigger lies.
       It was getting to be so much fun that the Supreme Court decided to let corporations and very wealthy people get more involved. And now we have year round campaign ads for campaigns that haven't even started, for elections that won't take place for two or more years. Now the GOP is suing to be allowed to hit up everyone for all the money they can get from you.
       The next thing you know, we'll begin to hear how old Aunt Matilda was hoodwinked out of her life saving to help get some young candidate elected to be the local dog catcher or Senator or something. It won't be long before there's no money left for robbers and confidence men.  Meantime we still get hammered with dozens of appeals for money every day on each of our phone, computer and mailbox. Do you realize that if you gave just $1 to each appeal, you'd have to file for bankruptcy within a month. And that's just the wealthy. The rest of us wouldn't last a week.  And yet they want more all the time. If you got a dozen requests today, tomorrow you'll get two dozen. Wouldn't it make more sense to just hand over your paycheck and let them give you back some sort of an allowance?
       I realize that politics is a growth industry, but it's reaching the point where politics will become the only industry. Why does the GOP need to be able to go after everyone for all they can get? And to be sure, the DNC will be right behind the GOP with their hands outstretched.