Re:The Big Zero
by anamax on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @12:10AM
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> I don't think that ordinary people are the problem.
I didn't say that they were. I said that they were the ones adversely affected by campaign finance restrictions.
The rubes think that that's an accident and that it could be fixed. The cynics think that that was the goal and know that it won't. The realists know that it was inevitable.
> The problem is that special interests find that money is better spent through lobbying.
That's because "we" keep voting for folks who set up programs "to do good". That always fails because regulatory capture always happens.
Either we're insane or we want to be fleeced.
The only way to stop being fleeced is to insist that govt stop doing things.
I didn't say that they were. I said that they were the ones adversely affected by campaign finance restrictions.
The rubes think that that's an accident and that it could be fixed. The cynics think that that was the goal and know that it won't. The realists know that it was inevitable.
> The problem is that special interests find that money is better spent through lobbying.
That's because "we" keep voting for folks who set up programs "to do good". That always fails because regulatory capture always happens.
Either we're insane or we want to be fleeced.
The only way to stop being fleeced is to insist that govt stop doing things.