Sunday, November 15, 2009

Try Separation of Business from State

If it works at least as well as the somewhat successful separation of church and state, we'd all be immeasurably better off.

Most recent reference is made to :

"We were approached by the lobbyist, who asked if we would be willing to enter a statement in the Congressional Record. I asked him for a draft. I tweaked a couple of words. There’s not much reason to reinvent the wheel on a Congressional Record entry."
STANLEY V. WHITE, chief of staff for Representative Robert A. Brady of Pennsylvania, one of dozens of lawmakers who used speeches ghostwritten by a biotechnology company during the health-care debate in the House.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/us/politics/15health.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
Our representative form of government is dangerously compromised routinely by these lobbyists and they need to be constrained as soon as possible.