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Back in the glorious 1970s, Corporations didn't have Lobbiests, they felt they didn't need em. Then along came a bunch of Liberal do gooders who were concerned about the environment. They Lobbied Congress hard to do saomething about protecting the environment from further degradation at the hands of Corporate America. The result was the EPA...

Corporations were hit hard by the EPA, blindsided as it were. It was a real wakeup call for them. They decide that they needed to be represented in Washington as well..and the birth of the Lobbyist industry was upon America.

Today inspite of a whole lot of half measures, its all about the MONEY in DC. When a Corporation donates money to BOTH political canidates in an election the corporation wins no matter which Political Party gets in.

So in 2007 the people still matter in the raw vote, but the money has corrupted the system and our govternment serves the interest of corporate America over the people.

Today the world has become a Global Economy in which corporations only care about the bottom line so that their shareholders are making money. Corporations don't care if the American people are wealthy or poor, they will go to where ever their bottom line is maximized.

So the outlook for America is pretty grim, the Middle Class which has been under pressure since the 1970s is going to shrink with fewer and fewer Americans being able to sustain a Middle class lifestyle. The few that will do well in America will be the Bright, well educated who are motivated, while the rest are su[ked off while watching the Super Bowl on the couch.