10-21-2009, 01:21 AM
Don Kiyoti wrote:
[quote=M A V I C]
[quote=decay]
lobbyists are ruining America.
i'm not kidding.
Everyone who expresses their opinion is a lobbyist. I suppose you also think corporations are ruining America too.
That's a painfully simplistic way of looking at things. If you think you're a lobbyist, just try getting a meeting with your senator about a law you'd like enacted or blocked. For the purpose of this discussion you know perfectly well what a lobbyist is, and playing semantics with the definition is just ducking the point.
Ok, I admit it's overly simplistic. But to group all lobbyists (by definition) together is stereotypical and thus inaccurate. It's not just playing semantics, it's a simple way to point out that the root of the problem is not what people are pointing their fingers at.