Professor Jacobsen has several excellent articles up. One is about the increase in lobbying in the Capitol. You know, that place where they said no lobbyists....transparency...that kind of stuff?
And a Center for Responsive Politics review of lobbying reports recently filed with the Senate Office of Public Records indicates companies, trade associations, unions and other groups spent nearly $1 billion on lobbying during the first three months of 2010. That puts the current year on an early pace toward exceeding the record amount of money -- about $3.47 billion -- spent last year on federal lobbying efforts.
The $903 million spent between January 1 and March 31 is larger than overall lobbying expenses in three out of four quarters last year, and it represents an 11 percent increase from the $811 million spent on lobbying during the first three months of 2009.
And questions I never want my children to ask....the reason tea partiers meet. None of us would have met yesterday in downtown Toledo for the Mayday Event if we didn't feel exactly this way:
Intergenerational warfare is breaking out in Greece as youth blame their elders for the economic mess, resulting from decades of welfare-state policies, that has left Greece bankrupt.
And a link to this article about the British elections and the promise the conservative candidate has made to the people. Wasn't power to the people a promise from our founders? Sound appealing?
Government has become too big for its boots in this country. Ministers, officials, all the powers-that-be: they need to know their place, which is to serve the people, not to control them.
I wonder whether the questions being asked by the youth of Greece are the same questions our children and grandchildren will ask as we head further down the road of unprecedented national debt on a scale unimaginable two years ago as a result of Obama's attempt to restructure society.
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