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| said by mcmillan:Politicians are prostitutes. If we offer them power they will offer services. What we need is citizen lobby. Same principle, difference being to act in the interest of freedom and justice. Lobbying works, now if we only could organize to pressure those people ( I almost wrote "gentlemen") What we need is to keep corporate money out of politics. Of course, with a judiciary packed in favor of the corporatists, any such attempt that isn't a constitutional amendment will be declared unconstitutional, despite every individual within a company being perfectly free to contribute to any cause they desire.
Restricting politicians and their aides from immediately taking up lobbying once they leave would do a lot, since aside from campaign contributions, that's how the money is funneled to them.
I suppose the first step is to get laws passed in 33 states that reduce the power of lobbyists in those states, since it's obviously not going to happen on the federal level.
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It's wierdo, not weirdo. Yes, I know that's not the 'proper' spelling of the similar english language word.  |
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