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To: Dudoight
I want a government that makes lobbying illegal.

Sounds like you've been brainwashed by a liberal.

I don't know about you, but I just don't have the time to keep track of what the scoundrels in Washington are planning to do to me next. So I belong to a several groups of like minded citizens (e.g. NRA, AOPA) which do keep track for me, and (oooooh) lobby on behalf of their members.

You would make this illegal?

ML/NJ

48 posted on 01/21/2007 5:53:27 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj

The problem is not lobbying per se. The problem is that government is into so many interventionist unconstitutional activities that there is an enormous incentive for special interests to fight for influence. If the Federal government were restricted only to those few responsibilities assigned by the Constitution, of which national defense is the primary one, then most of the lobbyists would go away and have to find relatively honest work, like maybe selling used cars. Ditto for our enormous surplus of lawyers.


63 posted on 01/21/2007 6:37:08 AM PST by hellbender
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To: ml/nj
I want a government that makes lobbying illegal.

Sounds like you've been brainwashed by a liberal.

If you can obtain a government that stays to it's constitution and doesn't meddle in other matters, you won't need lobbyists.

133 posted on 01/21/2007 8:37:08 AM PST by tertiary01 (Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence".)
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