Money is speech

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I get that people are interested in the Malaysian plane that went down. There were people on it, and folks want to know what happened to them. But I wish the press would pay more attention to what's happening in this world to all the rest of us. I'm talking about trade agreements that have sent American manufacturing overseas, decimated family farms in Mexico, allowed multi-national corporations to hire people in third world countries for slave wages, all while those corporations part their profits overseas to avoid paying taxes here. In 2010, those corporations got the Supreme Court, in Citizen's United, to allow large corporations to pour unlimited dollars into Super Pacs to influence elections. Those corporations pollute, don't pay their fair share of taxes, drive wages down, break up unions and contribute to the impoverishment of everybody but the people at the top. And now, today, the Supreme Court dealt another blow to our "one person, one vote" system by ruling in favor of Sean McCutcheon, who had a problem with there being a limit on how much one person could contribute to political campaigns. So now it's not just rich corporations, but it's rich individuals too. And we wonder why our representatives don't listen to us. Our little three dollar contributions can never compare to their huge contributions. And of course our legislators pass legislation that helps these people, not the little people who need unemployment benefits extended, not the people who are being illegally foreclosed upon, not the mentally ill who are being increasingly housed in our prisons instead of getting help, not the poor, not the middle class. Just the rich. Why aren't the media reporting on this?