Re: Is Wind Power Worth It?

On Jul 29, 9:50 pm, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...@My-
Web-Site.com> wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:33:32 -0500, Kris Krieger <m...@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Money is power - andyoen whose ever functioned in the real world or
business and politics, or has at all studied politics and government,
knows that.  And lobbyists have a lot of money at their disposal which
they can use to influence political decisions that affect everybody.  
It'd be one thing is aeveryone who sought to petition the gov.t was doing
so from a level playing field, but they're not - more money = more access
= more influence over political decisions.

And then you get caught...

http://news.aol.com/article/federal-authorities-indict-gop-senator/10...

WOW. That is *SO* impressive.

A whole *ONE* congress critter indicted (not yet convicted) by the
Feds since 1993.

When there are so many bent ones to choose from and so many snouts
deep in the lobbyist funded trough. It should be like shooting fish in
a barrel. Hard to believe that guys like Abramoff caught red handed
dishing out bribes pleaded guilty.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/03/AR2006010300474.html

It really is true that America has the best politicians that money can
buy.

Regards,
Martin Brown
.

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