A Proposed Lobby Group

I have talked on these governmental and economic issues so long I’m beginning to bore even myself. But I feel it is still necessary to promote reasonable argument versus the mindless stuff that fills editorial pages and certain Facebook fanatics.

Here’s a new thought. Most of our problems center around the lobbyists the rich have created and thereby have taken control of the government. We could start our own lobby group.

The focus of the lobby group I propose would have only main agenda item: Election reform. I reject all the lamebrain whining stuff we get spammed about on politician spanking and their benefits. Let them have them, they are inconsequential in the larger picture.

What we do need is the end of lobbyist groups. Or, I want a lobby group that would destruct lobby groups.

There are approximately 18,000 lobbyists in Washington DC according to Lobbyists.info. They have 1200 clients and there are 1,700 lobbying firms. Now who do you suppose hires the vast majority of these lobbyists? They will happily sell you their information and even give you a free trial.

The point is it is the rich and very rich that employ most of the lobby groups in order to have more influence upon our elected officials that we ordinary folk. They willing write the majority of the bills that pass before congress. Guess who benefits from that.

Steven Benen writing in the Washington Monthly wrote the following: What I find interesting, though, is the realization that plenty of far-right voters were sold a bill of goods. In 2010, conservatives flocked to GOP candidates who ran as "insurgents" and "outsiders," with no use for the entrenched establishment and their corrupt power structure.  Now those same candidates are hiring corporate lobbyists and turning over bill-writing responsibilities to them. Is this what the anti-establishment Tea Party crowd had in mind?

Now I think we have about a snowballs chance in hell of getting legislation to outlaw lobbying, but it certainly seems worth a try.

Anybody interested?