[Starboard]

Bills are written on K Street (in Washington DC for those not familiar with lobbies).

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The proper terminology for this is “the big-government/big-corporate criminal complex.”

[Earthdweller]

Big money always buys our pols..what's new? On the Left you have international interests like Communist China now making their bids. Our current big government system is smelly..like a sewer. Fight organized crime, re-elect no one.

[aimhigh]

Every industry and political group drafts bills for Congress, not just bankers. This is why being a Congress critter is so easy. Others do you work, and you don’t even have to read the bills before you vote for them.

[FreeReign]

NY Times says Wall Street is writing the laws?

Utter leftwing nonsense. It's big government that controls Wall Street.

[Vaduz]

Wall St + D.C. = Club members only

[oldbill]

Best example - the amnesty bill is written by the Wall Street folks and the Chamber of Commerce.

[Wuli]

if a law is written with no, or too little knowledge of how some matter of a business works, regulation is not improved, enforcing regulation is not improved, the law is less transparent, more opague, more prone to interpretation pro-and-con, when it comes to operating by the regulation

this goes with any area of business

so, if you think you have the right to mess with my business just ‘cause you want to run my business to meet your social agenda, then yes, as citizens with the right of redress, we want to see that the law actually knows what in the ^&%$# it’s talking about, so that when the regulator comes knocking on the door we will be as clear as the regulator on the intent and the letter of the law/reg

“lobbying” - translation: the legal right to petition government over affairs of yours that government wants to control; something every citizen and every organization formed by the citizens has a right to do

yes; the big banks ARE too big; and yes they are not operating responsibly to the long term financial interests of us all; neither is Obama, the Fed and many others

however, they - corporations, and their lobyists are not the problem

the Dodd-Frank law - which some are now trying to “reform” piecemeal, in this case IS the problem

much of it was unessential and none of it prevents “too big to fail”; much if it went after perceived issues that were not in fact core issues; just ‘cause people had made so much money in those areas in the run up to 2008