@McGentrix,
McGentrix wrote:
Just my thoughts...
I used to hate lobbyists. I did not like the influence they peddle. I especially did not like the fact that they tend to actually write many of the laws that our "legislature" votes on. But, then I realized something...
People in Arkansas, Mississippi, California, etc vote for people to be in the legislature. Most elections are popularity contests instead of competence tests. That means we do not have the best and the brightest in Congress. However, lobbyists are very well paid and sometimes even experts in their fields... It occurred to me that the lobbyists were, in some cases, actually helping government move.
They have become a necessary evil.
That's all.
I know in some ways you are right about this. That is if the middle class did not have the deck stacked against them.
I might agree with you if the 1% did not possess most of the lobbying monies...
How do the poor middle class tax payers lobby? ...and the Citizens United ruling has just made dirty energy corporate money more prevalent in how Washington works.
Corporation lobbyists (Again where most of the money is) are ruining our constitution by trying to inject hateful religion onto it. They are ruining our political legislative body by paying them off and causing them to promote their highly profitable polluting energy sources over green and practically free energy sources like wind and solar...
I could care less if I ever hear of another single bill passed to help the polluters continue to put profits over conservation and ecology.
