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Re: [News] Google Thrives, So Microsoft Takes Over US Government (a Whole GROUP of Lobbyists)

____/ [H]omer on Friday 17 August 2007 22:17 : \____

> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Microsoft has hired lobbying firm Patton Boggs LLC to do work on
>> | "competitive issues surrounding Google/DoubleClick [sic] merger."
>> `----
> 
> Why is lobbying even a legal practise? It's insane. It's legalised
> corruption. Corporations should have only one opportunity to influence
> politicians, and that's at the ballot box - like everyone else.

Well, when political funding comes from corporations, even the ballot box is no
fair process. The whole political system is motored by the dollars. A reform
is needed.

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