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Originally Posted by JU_88
It's not a new situation, lobbying has been around forever, but it's gotten worse and its gone too far.
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Well that's a good opinion, but do we have any facts that back that up? We have a lot more oversight and laws than we did in the 19th century. Again, not saying that things are great now. Not at all. But to say they are worse than then in the past has not been demonstrated.
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These guys have more control over legislation than the American people do, that's not how American/western democracy is supposed to work.
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Well, actually in a representative system the citizens really shouldn't have much control over legislation. That's actually the whole point about representative governments vice democratic governments. I do agree that both the citizens and corporations need to have limited control over legislation. To allow one (Corporations) while denying the other (Citizens) is unacceptable.
Could you imagine how screwed up our country would be if we were truly democratic in nature?
It is depressing, I will agree. But until someone comes up with a better solution that is actually workable, our governmental system is probably still the best crappiest system out there
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winny C.
One could substitute representative in the place of democratic as I believe ole Winny actually intended.