FCC Commish who approved controversial NBC/Comcast merger leaves FCC with cushy Comcast job

[KrazyHorse]

I don't feel like I've lost the class war

p.s. you're doing it wrong

[OneFootInTheGrave]

not yet, but you will feel like it once they (everyone not in politics and/or paying politicians off) execute you.

[Tuberski]

Making lobbyists illegal would be retarded. You should be allowed to pay for someone to advocate you to Congress. If you really want to fix this problem you need to give businesses less of a reason to try to lobby, which means you need to reduce the size of the federal government. The more federal dollars (or tax exemptions) Congress is able to dole out, the more incentive there is to hire lobbyists. This is really pretty obvious stuff, you can't increase the size of government without increasing the private sector's desire to influence it.

The other thing you have to do is pay federal bureaucrats more. They get paid two to three times as much in the private sector because we pay federal employees too much at the lower levels and too little at the upper levels. Who wouldn't move?

And Guy, I honestly am not sure you know what class warfare is...

The only problem with you theory is that the congressman from your district is supposed to be your advocate to congress.

ACK!

[C0ckney]

when the revolution comes, KH won't be important enough to be executed. he probably wouldn't even qualify for a sound beating, maybe just a clip round the ear hole or something. :cheguevara:

[KrazyHorse]

[Imran Siddiqui]

Ok, now I have to refer you to the thread I made about never leaving your house.

And as said, no one said lobbying should be made illegal, but that policymakers who make decisions impacting a certain business should have some limitations in jumping right afterwards to that business and lobbying for them. One can easily see the potential for abuse. Perhaps this Commissioner was totally on the up and up, but it can very easily be seen as Comcast offering a cushy job for said Commissioner based on his vote.

[-Jrabbit]

"her" vote

[Imran Siddiqui]

My bad. I assumed if she was screwing us all over, she had to be a man .

[C0ckney]

sexist!