The Best Government Money Can Buy? Trailer

The Best Government Money Can Buy? is the first behind-the-scenes, comprehensive, non-partisan examination of the system of lobbying in Washington, DC.

The cost of election campaigns has spiraled out of control, to the extent that, on average, our representatives spend more than 25% of their time fund-raising. Even our Presidents regularly interrupt the nation's work in order to spend time fund-raising!

Veteran documentary film-maker, British-born Francis Megahy, makes a journey of discovery as he tries to answer some questions which puzzle him: who provides the money? What effect does it have? How is it connected to the financing of political campaigns? And most crucial, is it in the public interest?

The Best Government Money Can Buy? explores the issue through interviews with real Washington beltway insiders, key participants in the process - who often speak with surprising candor.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• cinema libre studio
• government
• money
• lobbying
• congress
• president
• obama
• washington
• journalism
• finance
• campaign finance
• public
• voting analysis

[swiftysmithuk]

Frederic Bastiat warned us in his short essay "The Law".

"The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish!

If this is true, it is a serious fact, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it."