Under Pharmaceuticals:
#1 Hillary Clinton $269,436
#2 Barack Obama 261,784
#3 Mitt Romney 260,535

John Edwards was way down on the list at $15,000.

Oil & Gas
#1 Guilani $545,058
#2 Mitt Romney $309,933
#3 Hillary Clinton $220,550
Barak Obama $106,112

John Edwards $27,850

Lobbyists
#1 Hillary Clinton $567,950
#2 McCain 340,365
#3 Dodd 233,875

John Edwards was way down on the list at $18,900.

Insuarance Industry
#1 Dodd $713,012
#2 Romney 629,167
#3 Guilani 530,615
#4 H.Clinton 525,938
#5 B. Obama 390,513

John Edwards $129,600

Lawyers/Law Firms

#1 Hillary Clinton $9,596,748
#2 John Edwards 8,161,150
#3 B. Obama 7,940,424

Securities/Investment

#1 H.Clinton $4,735,730
#2 Guilani 4,506,026
#3 B.Obama 4,505,199
#4 Romney 3,561,397

John Edwards $773,600

So there is the proof in the pudding, as they say.

Hillary Clinton, while spouting “change” and being for those without health insurance, is accepting huge donations from the very people who are against any national health care.

And let’s not forget NAFTA, which brought about the fiasco that we’re in with loss of jobs to cheap, sweatshop labor overseas.

I’m not happy with everything John Edwards has done, but he’s the best candidate to really do something for the broken middle class, in my opinion.

Hillary and Barack are in way too deep with the corporate world. Hillary’s recent refusal to tip waitstaff kind of shows how out of touch she really is with the working people.

On to the middle class story of needing help~

This quote caught my eye:

Today, hourly manufacturing pay in Flint remains extraordinarily high, $31 an hour – nearly twice the national average.

This kind of pay would be wonderful if everyone here in the Midwest got that amount. You’re lucky if you can make $10 an hour here–and that’s with a college education. Most folk eke out a living at $8 an hour. The only way they survive is through government subsidized housing.

I’m thinking this is too little too late….. but, I remain hopeful that people will wake up as to what’s at stake here, for everyone. The big fat bill has come due in st. john mccain’s state, and must be paid by 7/1 of this year. A surplus turned into a huge deficit in a matter of months and it continues to grow. Its an urgent situation that I’m unclear on how they could have missed it.

Good for John Edwards!! The media and billo sure don’t like what he’s got to say. The truth is rough and John Edwards has my complete respect for telling it, over and over, and I hope he goes on telling it. It’s what we need right now, for all of us. More than speaking it, I believe he has what it takes to confront it and resolve it in the best interest of all Americans.

my good friend who retired last year from Citibank and is counting on her Citibank dividends and pension has just had her dividends cut back 40% and is worried that if Citibank were to implode, she’d lose her pension too.

The 1980s were depressing and a lot of companies went bankrupt or stole a lot of retirement fund money trying to stay solvent. Back then Congress was run by Democrats and they still didn’t think to improve people’s retirement security.

Now is the time! Hurry!

Are people deluded into thinking that we’re just gonna win no matter who we run??? Leiberman-loving Hillary (see dailykos headline) or Reagan-admiring Obama (see Digby at http://digbysblog.blogspot.com…..digby.html)?

For God’s sakes, people, we in the netroots should be donating like crazy to John Edwards, publicizing him, voting for him, and introducing him to our relatives who’ve not even heard of him due to the media blackout.