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[Truean]

Good idea or bad idea. Not sure. What about one for the common everyday person?

[Tellemurius]

BOO, NO LOBBYISTS

[G-Flex]

BOO, NO LOBBYISTS

thank you for your delightful and insightful contribution

[Tellemurius]

they are a bunch of manipulative bastards that sit around in our capital buying up votes, is that what you wanted?

[Truean]

I'm talking about lobbying for the common everyday people, as a purely theoretical idea.

Like it or not, there are Lobbyists. The problem is that they are all against you. See the line above this one. I'm talking about fighting them for the actual people of this country....

[Neonivek]

they are a bunch of manipulative bastards that sit around in our capital buying up votes, is that what you wanted?

Not all Lobbyists are like that.

It is a lot like Lawyers.

Well except yeah... Most Lobbyists are like that if only because Lobbying can cost a lot of money that only large buisnesses can afford.

[Truean]

they are a bunch of manipulative bastards that sit around in our capital buying up votes, is that what you wanted?

Not all Lobbyists are like that.

It is a lot like Lawyers.

Well except yeah... Most Lobbyists are like that if only because Lobbying can cost a lot of money that only large buisnesses can afford.

You give someone a hundred thousand people all paying $10 a year and they'll lobby Congress with 8 lawyers.
You give someone a million people all paying $10 a year and they'll lobby the hell out of Congress with 80 lawyers bugging the crap out of them until they make sense again. and threaten to keep 1 million people from voting for them....

[Tellemurius]

why do we have to pay though in the first place, congress is suppose to be listening to their voters in the first place.

[Truean]

Just wondering really. .

[Tellemurius]

Our taxes already pays their damn salaries

alright so you want me to contribute 10 bucks so that you would lobby for the american people, you are for the american people not for any political party correct?

[Truean]

Not sure if good idea or bad idea.

[GlyphGryph]

This already happens. But the problem of course is that I disagree with some of your stances, so you won't be getting my money. ^_^

[Tellemurius]

oi, how about getting the Fair Tax bill in?

[GlyphGryph]

Anyways, what would yours offer that the other citizen lobbyist groups don't, in terms of power or platforms?

[Truean]

Posted by: GlyphGryph

This already happens. But the problem of course is that I disagree with some of your stances, so you won't be getting my money. ^_^

Which do you disagree with? I'm against: $5/gallon gas, expecting ordinary people to understand rules that strain the limits of human comprehension, and people not being blatant frauds/having to report what they do.