Comments on: What the Lobbyists Are Saying [Reader Post] http://floppingaces.net/2009/03/08/what-the-lobbyists-are-saying-reader-post/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-the-lobbyists-are-saying-reader-post Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: GaffaUK http://floppingaces.net/2009/03/08/what-the-lobbyists-are-saying-reader-post/#comment-173923 GaffaUK Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:48:41 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=18121#comment-173923 @Suek How do you get Government out of business? And moreover why would you want to? Look at the current Credit Crunch mess...Clinton with Republican help relaxed the regulation on housing and banking. First by allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could spend $97.50 buying loans as opposed to the $90 as before for every $100. Then by having the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act which repealed part of the Glass-Steagall Act which was designed to control speculation. I see government as being a referee ensuring that the rules are balanced for those participating in our societies. If we remove government and just hope everyone plays fairly and it will all work out - then that results in anarchy.

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How do you get Government out of business?

And moreover why would you want to?

Look at the current Credit Crunch mess…Clinton with Republican help relaxed the regulation on housing and banking. First by allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could spend $97.50 buying loans as opposed to the $90 as before for every $100. Then by having the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act which repealed part of the Glass-Steagall Act which was designed to control speculation.

I see government as being a referee ensuring that the rules are balanced for those participating in our societies. If we remove government and just hope everyone plays fairly and it will all work out – then that results in anarchy.

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]]> By: suek http://floppingaces.net/2009/03/08/what-the-lobbyists-are-saying-reader-post/#comment-173836 suek Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:38:00 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=18121#comment-173836 As someone said, it would be very easy to get lobbyists out of government - get government out of business. As long as government is legislating business, business has a right to petition the government.

As someone said, it would be very easy to get lobbyists out of government – get government out of business.

As long as government is legislating business, business has a right to petition the government.

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]]> By: Caphillbabe http://floppingaces.net/2009/03/08/what-the-lobbyists-are-saying-reader-post/#comment-173752 Caphillbabe Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:46:31 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=18121#comment-173752 If you figure the average Hill staffer started working on the Hill at age 22 or 23, that's 7-8 years of experience if they are 30 yrs old. And most lobbyists are former Hill staffers, and are very Beltway-centric, are they not? Except for PAS appointees, most people that work in Administrations end up being someone's butt-boy or butt-girl anyway, right?

If you figure the average Hill staffer started working on the Hill at age 22 or 23, that’s 7-8 years of experience if they are 30 yrs old. And most lobbyists are former Hill staffers, and are very Beltway-centric, are they not?

Except for PAS appointees, most people that work in Administrations end up being someone’s butt-boy or butt-girl anyway, right?

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]]> By: luva the scissors http://floppingaces.net/2009/03/08/what-the-lobbyists-are-saying-reader-post/#comment-173229 luva the scissors Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:21:49 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/?p=18121#comment-173229 as another poster on another thread asked, what happens when the administration implodes? there is nothing worse than a young energetic ignorant busybody running around making matters worse. if the rest of the country did things the way they do on the beltway the nation would have been lost along time ago. obama is so busy trying to turn this into a socialist nation that he is ignoring the fact that the nation doesn't want to got that direction. how much of the stimulus money is going to sit there because they have no idea how to get it out, not that it really needs to get out in the way they are intending. i really believe we need an overhaul of our system.

as another poster on another thread asked, what happens when the administration implodes? there is nothing worse than a young energetic ignorant busybody running around making matters worse. if the rest of the country did things the way they do on the beltway the nation would have been lost along time ago. obama is so busy trying to turn this into a socialist nation that he is ignoring the fact that the nation doesn’t want to got that direction. how much of the stimulus money is going to sit there because they have no idea how to get it out, not that it really needs to get out in the way they are intending. i really believe we need an overhaul of our system.

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