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Re:Despite rising wages, 61% of Americans are still living p... by JoeAltmaier on Thursday February 17, 2022 @02:29PM (#30377504)
It's a hard problem. Texas has 27 million residents. And 2 Senators. If they spent an hour a day talking to constituents and spent 15 minutes with each one, it would take 16,875 years to talk to each one, once.
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Re:Despite rising wages, 61% of Americans are still living p... by MomoXenosaga on Thursday February 17, 2022 @02:44PM (#30377725)
The only people senators want to talk to is their donors. Money is speech.
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Re:Despite rising wages, 61% of Americans are still living p... by JoeAltmaier on Thursday February 17, 2022 @03:16PM (#30378088)
There was even a SchoolHouse Rock episode about that - how lobbyists represent money, and money represents people, so it's all nice and democratic!
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Re:Despite rising wages, 61% of Americans are still living p... by JaimeThompson on Thursday February 17, 2022 @04:25PM (#30378888)
Even in their public forums they typically vet those allowed in. Donors don't have much of a problem talking to them.

They forget they represent everyone, not just those who fund them.

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