Lobbyists represent one of the biggest problems with our government today: corruption. Lobbyists manipulate, bribe ("legally" of course), and strong arm the politicians into getting what their sponsor wants. To make matters worse the lobbyist with the biggest budgets are the ones from the big businesses (like Big Oil). To make more money they screw over us, the working men and women of the US. That is a tangent for another day, though.
Lobbyists need to be removed from Washington D.C. It should be illegal in the capital. Now some people may say, "Eric, there are Lobbyists for the general public and if you remove them then you remove their voice as well." To that I say GOOD. Remove all the lobbyists from the capital and you don't have 50 business lobbyists yelling one thing and 1 general public lobbyists yelling the other. Let the government officials work to find out the public's interest by showing what they are doing in the public's eye. Don't let some lobbyists say what "general public" are thinking. Go and ask them. Have rallies, have polls, meet the people understand the people that put you in office and REPRESENT THEM LIKE YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO!
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