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Sun Jul-24-11 12:17 PM
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16. In my opinion, what's worse than that is their lobbying of our government

I'm not talking about their use of their right to petition our government, as granted in our first amendment. But who ever said that the right to petition our government included the right to give them money in return for legislative favors -- at the expense of everyone else. That is essentially the definition of a plutocracy, which is what we are.

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