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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (344135)	7/24/2007 1:02:20 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573434

"Now you claim, as you have before, that a small efficient government is more prone to corruption?" Sure. It took a confluence of events to get something like the drug bill passed. It took an administration that is totally convinced that government can't work, so why not appoint people with no qualifications but personal loyalty and encourage them to hire the same? It took a Congress willing to let the industries they are supposed to regulate to write the enabling legislation, often with an appropriate show of gratitude. One of the most chilling aspect of the Abramoff scandal was the amount of legislation that he wrote on his clients behalf. Now, such things have happened in the past, but never on that scale or with that degree of success. And it took an administration who has absolutely no regard for the future of the country. That isn't easy to pull off.