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To: RowdyFFC
We need to block lobbyists from Washington DC, and we need to limit campaign donations to individuals only.

Pardon me, but why do you think that?

Corporations -- large and small -- have a huge stake in what government does. An inconsequential regulation can literally ruin a company (and the individuals who own it). Don't they have a right to self-defense?

Or, to the contrary, an otherwise inconsequential regulation can make other corporations (and the individuals who own them) wildly successful. Have they no right to pursue this success, when it is in the government's hands to offer?

If you want to get corporate lobbyists and money out of politics, there is only one way to do so: Take the power of corporate life or death out of Congress' hands. In the meantime, try to understand that Congress has the power to extort and corporations are compelled to defend themselves.

17 posted on 09/07/2009 7:18:18 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: okie01

Of course they do. They have the same rights as I do to protest government control. But they shouldn’t spend billions of dollars for lobbyists to pay off elected officials to make government favor them above individuals.

The cost of their billions of dollars of lobbying expense eventually winds up on my back. And they can literally buy an elected official with campaign contributions.

They can organize just like citizens can and implment righteous, transparent protest, rather than behind closed door deals with politicians.


19 posted on 09/07/2009 7:45:39 PM PDT by RowdyFFC (Nancy Pelosi...please deny her any health care....)
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