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Old 10-05-2011, 12:32 AM   #59
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Originally Posted by Culverin View Post
You can't really get rid of lobbyists that simply, they have a place to educate or at least tell their side of the story. The problem is that they have the ability to wine and dine and give gifts and incentives, maybe they don't come right away, but sometimes, the ex-congressmen are given executive positions after. Stuff like that is much too grey to be regulated.
What about limiting the size of donations?

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Protests aren't going to do shit, I'm surprised no one has organized a para military group to start assassinating some of these inept ceo's and exec's.
Those guys are just players in the game; you'll inevitable get bad apples no matter what. You can say the same thing about building construction or water safety or airplane maintenance, etc. That's why we have referees or at least we're supposed to.
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