Lobbies & Congress are Consenting Adults

Tell me a member of the executive, legislative or judicial branch of government that you would trust with your security, wealth or life.

Talk of lobby reform after the Abramoff scandal revelations run up against the age-old problem of seperating consenting adults from their natural instincts. Whether the example be the prohibition of liguor, outlawing sodomy, criminalizing prostitution, using illegal drugs, etc. The problem becomes how to inforce the law. Simply, if lobby reform is to go anywhere then one thing has to happen. The power to sell favors of legislation has to be removed from the power brokers, i.e. take away their product. How? Whether it be education, power to declare war, environmental issues etc, each state or regional states are better able to self-regulate. And it will be cheaper too.

This is not fool-proof. All corruption will not disappear. But there will be less of it. Because it is more difficult to bribe/suborn a scattered group of politicians that number in the thousands than having only 525 members of congress all in one convenient place. Start dismantling the power in Washington through state propostions.

A prime example is the Iraqi war. If war was only possible through a NATIONAL REFERENDUM, the war would not have happened. Instead we got a war because Evangelicals, Zionists and Neocon lobbies paid our leaders for their greedy goals.