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To: JohnM who wrote (52059)	3/6/2008 11:14:28 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 540831

see this as less about "government" and more about the growing ways in which business lobbies control government outcomes. Hm. I am perhaps being dense here, but that seems to me to be the same thing. If Congress is under the control of lobbyists and big business, then whose fault is that?

To: JohnM who wrote (52059)	3/6/2008 1:13:06 PM
From: Suma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540831

Now to resolve this whole thing why doesn't the government give us the same medical services as Congressmen,Senators and other public officials get. The latest scandal in Bradenton. There was some loophole and of course the councilmen and other public officials found it that allowed them to get their pensions at the same time as they were working and drawing a salary. Sad that it takes investigative reporting to uncover something like this. Wouldn't it have been nice if one of the officials had brought it to the surface as rather a duplicitous service and had the law changed... Greed perhaps ?