I understand that there are five (5) lobbyists from financial firms for every congressman. What the total number is, from all industires, must boggle the mind.   How can the people's business ever get bdone with numbers - and money - like that?   The system is completely broken.

Steve, you're delusional, right? Deficit spending was pretty much invented by Reagan, and reached criminal levels under Bush. As a right wing ideologue it behooves you to never, ever, look at the facts. The result would be a mental implosion.

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