[Don Joe]

The only consistently reliable way of getting your government's ear is to pay for it -- and pay generously.

Want to be heard? Then open the checkbook. Open it wide. once those six-digit checks start flowing, you'll have all the government you can afford.

What? You can't afford that kind of money? Tough break, kid. Neither can I.

[hedgetrimmer]

The only consistently reliable way of getting your government's ear? Citizens should revoke the charters of the corporations who have usurped the power and authority of the individual. That will definitely get the governments ear and give power back to the citizen, taking it away from international "nonpersons" who should have no say in the government of this country.