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I watched PBS Frontline's The Meth Epidemic a pretty much opened my eyes. The system of government in the United States is bought out. Senate, bought out, House bought out. May be I am being pessimistic, but it really seems that laws and acts are not written in the interest of the people, but in corporate interests.
In 2010, there are 12,488 registered lobbyists and $2.61 billion were spent in lobbying*. Let's say that there are 11,235 people between members of congress and their staff (535 members of congress and a wild guess of 20 people employed by each senator or house representative, IDK the number, it may be higher) That's pretty much a little over one lobbyist per person and around $232,000 spent lobbying congress; per person.
Let's say that instead of 20 staff members, it's 100 people employed per member of congress. The number of staff plus members of congress is 54,035. Approximately $48,000 is spent lobbying per official member of congress and staff. Who knows what else is going on behind the curtains, pretty disturbing.
*http://www.opensecrets.org/lobb...
- * http://www.opensecre…kgvs72
- What did this have to do with meth?********
- They spend billions on 'lobbying' and 'enforcement' yet the drug problem is out of control********
- Thanks Dodecahedron>kgvs72
- Watch the documentary and you will understand why we still have a problem with Meth.kgvs72