Lobbyists, corporations working against Americans

Today, I want to talk to you about the cancer of our "great" nation that has been turning every politician against the interests of the population. I am, of course, talking about lobbyists, the corruptors sent from the owners of our country. By owners, I mean the corporations.

Now that I have given my far left ideas of what a lobbyist is, it is only fair that I actually explain what a lobbyist does. A lobbyist is a representative from a special interest group who tries to influence decisions and ideas of legislators and/or members of regulatory agencies.

This system of lobbying was made to allow groups that reside in the United States to get their opinions heard by the politicians. This sounds like a good thing for Americans because it allows policy makers to actually get opinions and viewpoints from large groups of Americans. But like most good things in America, corporations quickly came in to take advantage of it and ruin it for the rest of us.

Yes, the rich and powerful of this country did not become the most powerful people in the world by following all the rules, working really hard and being nice. They got there by using their own lobbyists to control the majority of congress or regulatory agencies to get their own laws passed.  

You might ask how lobbyists can get so powerful and control the political system. Well, they use a variety of illegal tactics to sway the opinion of politicians to add amendments to laws and policies in favor for their interests.

This includes the common cash bribes, blackmail, giving privileged information (to allow insider trading), promising to get them reelected and also giving just a "good" time, if you know what I mean.

I mean hiring prostitutes and whores for sex.

Everyone knows of the illegal ways of corrupting a politician, but did you know that there are legal ways of corruption that corporations use?

Legal corruption is a little more complicated to nail down because it is legal, after all. This includes corporations promising people a job after they get out of their term, giving huge cash gifts after they get out of office and overall anything that is not counted as conflicts of interest to get their interests passed.

The lobbyists go and use very obscure language that allows the companies to understand what they can do, but to the casual observer, it is just political jargon that can be misunderstood.

The lobbyists and corporations are banking on the chance that congress isn't even going to read the bills it's passing in full and miss the opportunity to remove their part.  

Also, the writers of the bill could just hand off the work to the lobbyists to write the bill for them and present it to congress through a politician they are paying off. This happens more than one would think, and by far one of the scariest things is that the American people have no power to change this with the current system.

No matter who they elect or what political action they take, the lobbyists and corporations will have their way in converting congress to their lap dogs. The only way to fix this is to eliminate lobbyists and prevent special interests from interfering with congress, but this would only hurt the people who really need to lobby for their groups.

The corporations will find a way to corrupt our government.