Tweet To Tulsi Gabbard

I posted a tweet to Tulsi Gabbard yesterday evening. She is the most likely member of CONgress to take action on it.

In this tweet, I asked her to introduce a bill banning any company receiving federal funding or subsidies from advertising. Especially military contractors and oil companies.

This would have implications as well for drug companies, insurance companies and more but my main focus is that the weapons contractors make nearly every penny through federal funding. Oil companies get tens of billions a year in direct subsidies and tens of billions more indirectly, including oil/gas sales to the military and federal agencies. These companies then use money obtained from federal funding and spend it on advertising, promoting themselves to the public.

It gets more complex than that. The money they spend on advertising makes corporate media favorable to them and their positions on any given subject, including promoting warfare. MSM does not want to give up the advertising revenue, so they use representatives from these industries as “experts” on news broadcasts, with no opposing view presented.

You know the sayings, “follow the money” and “hit them where it hurts, the wallet”.

It is highly likely the media would be far more objective and critical of these industries if they were not being paid hundreds of billions of dollars a year to be biased. Money that comes out of your pocket, out of social support programs, out of infrastructure repair…