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A Post salon limerick
An exclusive salon at The Post! Circulate with the publisher-host And the powers that be If you'll pay a huge fee (And if word ever leaks this is toast!) News Short n' Sweet by JFD8 http://twitter.com/JFD8
Posted to Press Box by JD8 on July 3, 2009
aborted lobby
It is suprising that it got as far as it did. Chalk it off as a mistake - it never happened.
Posted to Press Box by david wayne osedach on July 3, 2009
Eliminate the Middleman: Let Lobbyists Practice Medicine
in a major breakthrough to address the doctor shortage, lobbyists in the US have decided to bypass doctors and start practicing medicine themselves ''it makes sense'' says Free-Trade-Flim-Flam, a partner in the K-Street firm Specialist Protectionist ... ''there's so many of us, we could just eliminate the shortage ourselves ... and since we've ...
Posted to Explainer by barry payne - economist on April 30, 2009
What's wrong? It's a stupid idea
One that, had he been elected instead, John McCain would almost certainly have imposed as well. What exactly is wrong with lobbyists? The represent citizens who have interests and issues that their government is addressing. The First Amendment is there precisely to ensure that citizens can have their voice heard by their government, whether ...
Posted to The Big Idea by seanparnell on April 24, 2009
Wealthy Special Interest = Gated Community Mentality
Lobbyists represent the wealthy special interest from doctors to Wal*Mart. The economic mess we are in stems precisely from such ''protectionist'' mentality. Like a gated community, the attitude of ''let the outside world take care of itself'' destroys the infrastructure of our society. By allowing such protectionism to take place, George W. Bush ...
Posted to The Big Idea by John From Atlanta on April 21, 2009
lobbyists
We do not need lobbyists. Good or bad. Period.
Posted to The Big Idea by david wayne osedach on April 18, 2009
Thin Lobbyists Have Fat Wallets: Pimping Shame
given the string of public relations failure in recent hearings on the economic crisis, congress and some prominent bankers have decided to initiate a series of retreats conducted by the well known public relations firm, Pimping Shame the new focus will be on self-torture as a means of distracting public rage, designed to replace the ...
Posted to Moneybox by barry payne - economist on February 17, 2009
The First Thing We Do is Kill All the Lobbyists
a primary reason congress and influential positions in major corporations came to be dominated by lawyers is driven heavily by the evolution of monopoly capitalism ... and not necessarily the rent-seeking kind, which is prevalent, but the other kind as well - natural and network monopolies along with oligopolies which don't necessarily derive ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by barry payne - economist on February 2, 2009
bailout trillions
Besides a doomed recession economy what else have the bailout trillions done for Main St?
Posted to Moneybox by david wayne osedach on December 19, 2008
A Fine Line Between Crime, Slime & Sublime Politics
Having been near enough to but far enough from politics -- I studued it but did not get sucked into its complex self-justifications. The kind that Blogojevich made until he embarked on a political life of crime. I am still dumbfounded by the extraordinary people who serve well but see nothing wrong with everyday ethical compromises. I call it ...
Posted to Recycled by john adkisson on December 12, 2008

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