Julian says : The injection of money into U.S. politics is a scandal . In 2009 , as Ron Suskind recounts in his new book , `` The Confidence Men , '' Democrats learned firsthand as the health care industry successfully pushed the administration to eliminate crucial measures that were intended to control costs and save money to pay for expanded insurance . He says money from powerful interests prevents rational choices on cost cutting . It helps explain why Wall Street got wiped out , and U.S. politics did n't , he says .
Julian says : The injection of money into U.S. politics is a scandal . He says money from powerful interests prevents rational choices on cost cutting . It helps explain why Wall Street got wiped out , and U.S. politics did n't , he says .