4,525 lobbyists are spending at least $1.2 Billion a year in D.C. to influence Congress. I'd say that'sout of control. Aren't they supposed to represent the voters?
Paul Ryan makes Gordon Ghekko look like Santa Clause.
I'm sure most Americans would favor lowering the tax rate for corporations who do not outsource, lay off workers to where it affects entire regions, raise the salaries of their own officers.
Thanks, Thom. Obama's speech was a welcome response to Ryan's Gordon Ghekko approach to balancing the budget. I think the proof of that is Ryan's own reaction. Rather than respond point by point, he went directly to calling it a campaign speech. Was that the best he could do?
If he were still alive he would have released some kind of video by now to reassure his folowers.