Milliardaires et mythes

L'auteur de l'article Darrell M. West a également rédigé un bouquin intitulé Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust. Il nous présente ici les cinq mythes les plus répandus au sujet des milliardaires.

Son premier exemple réfère au fait que les milliardaires seraient en mesure "d'acheter" des élections. Un extrait:

 "But money doesn’t always equal political power. Recent elections have been littered with failures on the part of billionaires. Conservative financiers didn’t defeat President Obama in 2012, despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars to do so. Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, News Corp. chief executive Rupert Murdoch and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg have failed to persuade members of Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. This year, Bloomberg is devoting $50 million to lobby legislators to adopt relatively mild measures designed to reduce gun violence, but so far the campaign hasn’t produced much legislative action. Conservatives have not gotten Congress to repeal Obamacare, despite numerous ads and outreach activities publicizing its defects. There has been no meaningful entitlement reform, even though many billionaires, including Peter Peterson and Stanley Druckenmiller, warn about the dangers of high debt levels and the need to address long-term deficits."

 La totalité du texte:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-billionaires/2014/09/26/18b21acc-4271-11e4-b47c-f5889e061e5f_story.html?hpid=z1