Here's my favorite ramp for the day excerpted from our podcast which you can find over at Tom Harbin.

Come.

For the fact that fewer than 16,000 donors is this from the Washington Post by

Michelle He Yee He Lee.

Fewer than 16,000 donors accounted for half the federal campaign contributions in 2016.

Half. Super PACs spent 1.1 billion in our last election. 1.1 billion dollars.

Super PACs didn't even exist before Citizens United.

Wealthy individuals accounted for 64% of the contributions to the

Super PACs. So we basically basically 16,000 owners accounted for half of all

campaign contributions. I would guess that it's probably a few hundred or a few

thousand maybe at the most that probably accounted for you know somewhere

between a quarter and a third although this doesn't break those those numbers out

like it should there's the the very real possibility of a government shutdown tonight.

We'll see how this goes and what happens and if it happens and all that sort of thing.

But the last time we had a government shutdown was when President Obama was president.

This was in October of 2013.

And the Republicans shut down the government because they wanted to destroy the Affordable Care Act.

And it lasted about two weeks, as I recall.

According to Standard and Poor, Haley Miller writing over at the Huffington Post about

this. Creating a Standard and Poor is is that shutdown that two-week shutdown

cost our US economy 24 billion dollars

of course as long as you know the stock market keeps going up and the rich keep getting rich,

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