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Lobbyists, money and corruption	excon	11/30/05
Hello experts: You do know that the congress has been sold to the highest bidder. Lobbyists even write legislation. Lobbyists suck. I hope they ban 'em - ALL OF 'EM. You? excon
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kindj		11/30/05
I'm not a political scientist, but it seems to me that in a pure representative democracy, the rep's would vote according to the wishes of the majority of their constituents. That might mean some online/phone/mail polling of their voters, but hey, they're the ones who ran, right? But it seems we elect them on their supposed platform, send them off, and don't have squat to do with them until re-election time. With the voters not holding them accountable on a day-to-day basis, that leaves them open to influence from every special interest lobby that's out there. Therein lies the problem: the elected officials aren't accountable to the voters at large anymore (if they ever were), they're accountable to the lobbyists who have them in their pocket. Yeah, I see your point. But it's not the lobbyists fault, strictly speaking. It's the American people's fault, for not taking a more active role in the operation of our government. Lobby groups are simply filling in that vacuum. DK

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