It's no surprise that big businesses are spending more on lobbying to further advance their agendas. Spend money on a particular candidate's campaign and the favors will come back your way.

Earlier this week we saw the newspaper industry get a life-saver thrown to them on taking away spending limits for political campaigns.

The writing is on the wall here. He or she with the most money USUALLY gets what he / she wants - the story's always the same. There's always a politician behind it with their hands open.

I guess my only question is, why do we let this happen? It's obvious that money makes the world go-around, but why do we need politicians as the intermediary?

We're all for disintermediation - it appears - online with distributors and manufacturers - but do we really still want politicians taking a cut?

Google quickly gaining on Microsoft in lobbying spending
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10441374-75.html

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