On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Henry Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > Is this really news to anyone? I mean it's almost comforting in a way to > see this in print, but this kind of thing has been going on for years > and years and years...... Politicians are either being "bought" by > lobbyists or they enact or change laws from which they can profit > personally.
Or, they do something today for a guaranteed high $$ job after their term is up. The system has become a failure--it devolved into the epitome of a conflict of interest ages ago, and there's just no simple way to reboot it. I read a stat years ago that there were on average 1000 lobbyists to every elected official. That's 3 favors (just meals? yeah right.) a day year-round. How anyone could fail to see the problems with this scenario--or worse, think that there is no problem--that democracy (of the people, not lobby sponsors) is still actively functioning is beyond me. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
