Professor Jay Mandle of Colgate University explains why public financing should be the objective of a broad social movement in his monthly column "Money on My Mind.""Social progress thus has occurred at the same time that there has been an increase in political dysfunction. Wealthy special interests, strategically placed as campaign donors, have obstructed advances on the critical issue of global climate change, set in motion a process of financial deregulation that resulted in the present economic calamity, and most recently have made it increasingly unlikely that the right to affordable health care will be extended to all Americans. The political process, as currently paid for, is unable to resolve important issues successfully and indeed itself contributes to the creation of problems."To read the full article, click here.