Fighting the symptoms
I am reading the stories, about Clinton and McCain, involvement with different lobbies with certain level of amusement. After all, what did we really thought that will happen after we built a system that make lobbying not only beneficial, but crucial? Every time that we added regulatory layer of protection we shifted the focus of corporations from the consumers to those who make difference - the regulators. On the one hand it is easier to effect few regulators than mass of consumers. But is become also necessary - because those regulations effect your corporation survival. Now instead of fighting for our money by offering us a valuable exchange of services and products, companies fighting over regulations that will protect their market share.
We also went through rounds of solutions that dealt with the symptoms instead of the actual problems. Attempts to limits the freedom of speech of lobbies and interest group to argue their cases and to protect their interest are very popular. One of the famous attempts was championed by no other than McCain himself. But the motive behind those attempts was not to limit the access of lobbies, but to limit the competition of those the lobbies needed. And instead of limiting the regulations dire effect on the consumer interest we are keep adding more, making the incentive to sell access very hard to resist.
And yet, we are surprise to find out about the ties between our politicians and lobbies.
Tags: Freedom of Speech, Hillary Clinton, Lobbying, McCain, McCain-FeinglodRelated posts
Rogel @ March 24, 2008