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To: Road Walker who wrote (285556)	5/9/2006 6:46:07 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573984

Special interests are not always corporate, and special interests are not always about money. Many of the special interests are corporations, but that doesn't mean its some general "corporate interest" being pandered to but rather the interest of some specific individual corporation or particular group of corporations that want some subsidy or restraint on trade. For example barriers to sugar imports are hardly beneficial to companies like AMD, and actually hurt companies that make things like cakes or candy. re: I'm not sure how much they are looking out for corporate interests and how much they are supporting an opinion of what is in the general interest that you almost totally disagree with (and that I also have a number of disagreements with). Be specific, I have no idea what you are saying. OK. This administration supports subsidies for oil exploration. Those subsidies help oil companies. But its not certain how much of the motivation for supporting the subsidies is a desire to help the oil companies, and how much is the belief that more oil exploration is in the general interest of the US economy. Remember the old quote "what's good for GM is good for America". Someone in government who believes that might subsidize car companies in some way and thing he is looking out for the general interest. re: I also don't see how making governments larger would make them less representative of corporate interests. If anything it increases the special interest problem. I don't know. It could easily be a chicken/egg thing. Its more of a negative feedback loop. Special interests push big government, big government supports special interests, which gives special interest more power to push big government, which in turn gives big government more money to shove at special interests...