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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
If the drug industry had no lobbyists, Congress would have run them out of business long ago. Tell me that would be good for the avg. American. Face it, Congress is an extortion racket. Take away their power to hand out special tax loopholes and earmarks, elect people who actually respect the Const. as the law of the land as opposed to something to find ways to get around, and the need for lobbyists would dry up overnight.
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Gee Rick, if the drug lobbyists are so good for us why don't we increase the number of drug company lobbyists? It's ludicrous to think that more drug lobbyists than members of Congress somehow is a good deal for American citizens.
BTW, those obbyists that you think have been protecting our interests must have been asleep the past 20 years since we pay more for drugs than any nation on the planet. The same drugs!
Yes, Congress is "an extortion racket" as you say, but guess who's paying them that extortion money? It sure as hell is not Joe Sixpack or any of his buddies!