Re: FEC list of Abramoff conributions --- Not One Democrat.


"nospam" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Right, and we should be careful to keep this in mind when discussing
>> this.
>
>
> Nope.

Um - yes.

Why wouldn't you want to do a thing like keeping FACTS in mind when
discussing an issue?

> Maybe it is the time to see that all this lobby firms, think tanks etc are
> nothing else but a tolerated form of corruption.

No, I don't believe it is. While there's a hell of a lot that can be done
in terms of reform - PACS and lobbyists are part of our system of
representative democracy.

> And maybe it is the time to stop it once for all.

Unfortunately you would sweep away lobbyists paid by the March of Dimes to
educate legislators about birth defects; lobbyists paid by the Salvation
Army to eduate legislators about homelessness; etc. along with the Enrons
and Exxon's.

There is a lot that can be done in the way of reform without tossing out the
one avenue of access besides direct visitation and letter writing that a lot
of individuals and groups have.

> What this lobby & co. is doing it is a direct violation of the democracy
> itself.

I disagree - it can and has been a FUNCTION of democracy itself.

> Into a democracy it should be waranted that the homeless voter's word can
> be heard with the same amplitude and the same amount of time provided to
> as
> Bill Gates word. No more, no less.

That will NEVER happen in America. That aside - you don't think that there
are groups and individuals paid to lobby for the homeless?

--
JW
***************
"You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have
you left no sense of decency?"
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/welch-mccarthy.html


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