How It Happens: Lobbyists

[t2k777]

how is this not bribery

[steve19745]

lobbist = domestic terrorist 

[bobbyciraldo]

The argument for lobbyists seems to be that they help bridge the gap between elected officials and the people. But in the age of the Internet, I don't think there is such a big gap that needs bridging.

[CognitiveApprentice]

Why do i get the impression that the folks behind this "we need lobbyists" propaganda never read the definition of a false dichotomy fallacy?

[phil52490]

The lobbyists represent their constituents (usually the corporations who have the money to drop millions on political bribery) and not the constituents of the lawmakers: the citizens. So who would the loss of lobbyists hurt? the people or the corporations?

[MacPr0xnxx0]

how does 1 become a rich lobbyist ?

[radzid]

good comment.

[politics105]

Great video, except you forgot to say that most of the lobbying is to take civil rights and what is good for the country and the people out and put special interests and big corporations in. you also forgot to say that these special interests with the money are paying off professionals and specialists to say things that are favorable to them (mostly lies) and that is how they convince the government and people that their product should be accepted. Best example is the pharmaceuticals.

[mouse9111]

@politics105 - would the fluoride in tap water be an example of a lobbyist's doings?

[dapple33]

@mouse9111

Actually yes, the producers of chemical ionic fluoride have been pushing hard were ever they can to produce more sales. Monsantos, the company that brought us rBST, and Dow chemical are two examples of enormous powerful influential suppliers. If they love to tout the benefits of fluoride in the drinking water and have been known to launder money into small local elections. They know that once a community begins fluorinating their water, they are unlikely to stop.

[politics105]

@mouse9111 fluoride is beyond lobbying. those who put fluoride in the water are those who control our country. they are monsanto also. fluoride is a product waist of making chemical fertilizer. it is made in Florida, long before Hitler came or Cuba was Communist. florida is the most corrupt of states, even more than New York. also in Philadelphia there is dumping of chemicals in the river which pollutes. chemical & bio industry own USA. Presidents are their spokes men & puppets. USA is Fascist.

[GuardianoftheSource]

@politics105

It is all part of da conspiracy right? I guess the native Americans on the west coast of the USA where fluoride is naturally common in drinking water just happen to discover advanced fertilizer 1000+ years ago and started putting it in the water to attack the white man right?