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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (349442)	9/6/2007 9:14:33 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578011

That vastly exaggerates things. Even when lobbying groups do write the legislation they want passed they have to compete with other lobbying groups. The government has the real power. Which doesn't mean that the lobbyist influence over the use of government power is not something to be concerned about, just that your getting the source of the power wrong. Also this started with a discussion of supposedly needing a large government because companies where large and powerful. But a large government helps create the problem your talking about. When government is big and involved in almost everything it gives corporations and other lobbyists incentive to try to influence the direction of government. It also gives them more ability to do so because there are so many areas of government control for them to try to latch on to, and because government does so much that the politicians can't hope to understand it all and they are more likely to accept a lobbyist written proposal and push it to become law.