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How have campaign contributions and lobbying efforts influenced policy on an issue you care about?

If you believe that lobbying and other contributions in the form of cash and/or tangible property do not influence the behavior of our elected politicians, you most certainly are living within a World of your own making. Our Democratic form of Government doesn't work for the majority of the people within our society when such economic influence is exerted for the benefit of the richest people on Earth.

You see, for more than 40 years the rights, the jobs, and the living standard of the average person within the United States of America has decreased with each passing minute. That is due mainly to the support of powerful special interests who have, one way or another, influenced the behavior of our elected politicians.

"We People of the United States of America" now have to pay as much as 300% more for all of the things that keeps us healthy and alive, as a result of the more than 300% increase of the price of crude oil and other fossil fuels. Tens of thousands of small business owners now struggle to earn a living, while tens of thousands of people are in danger of losing their home.

Nearly 2,000,000 jobs within the last year were lost to Foreigners within Foreign Countries, as the owners and the controllers of those huge multinational corporations continue to close factories within the United States of America. They continue to build pollution spewing factories within other Countries where the labor is plentiful and as cheap as it can be.

To make matters worse, the value of the average single family home is only 75% of what it was a year ago, while the mortgage lenders continue to raise the interest rate for the ARM mortgages that they granted to thousands of home owners who would otherwise not qualify for the funds necessary to purchase a home at the time when they did receive such a mortgage by said Mortgagor.

As a result, the crime rate is rising faster than a kite in a hurricane, while hundreds of very well organized violent street gangs continue to recruit new members who are, in part, nothing more than some of the tens of thousands of illegal aliens who get into our Country each and every year. In order to remain healthy and alive people have to earn a living somehow. It seems that the only jobs available are within gambling casinos, the Internet, and whatever temporary part time job is available at the time.

Tens of thousands of the Citizens of the United States of America are now underemployed and earning far lass than they did a few years ago, in terms


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