Brent: in my (learned) English I equate "lobbying" with "bribing" - it is by no means a 'petitioning'. You can step up the law enforcement against lawmakers etc. being BRIBED easily. Unless, of course, if the enforcers get 'lobbied'<G>. I always wonder, if someone has b$3-4 assets and m$5-10 in yearly income, (that's a modest incredible ~0.2% return) why would it be so important to fight for more? Power?? JM
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: > > On 15 Jan 2013, at 00:38, meekerdb wrote: > > On 1/14/2013 10:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > Lobbying should be forbidden. > > > But it's just another name for "petitioning your government". Lobbyists > provide a lot research and expertise to the legislative process, > > > Biased by personal interests. > > > > so I don't think it is workable to just forbid them. > > > I did not say it was easy. Note that in Europa lobbying is more or less > forbidden, but by lack of bipartition, we have often coalition which > succeed in defending some special interest too. > > We have to think to prevent democracy being swallowed by corporatism. When > Romney said that "corporations" are people, I get the chilling ... > > Bruno > > > > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
