Re: Re: [Pen-l] Green Public investment

["Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

me:
>>> I was assuming that we were talking about an ideal, in which there are no lobbyists.<<

David S:
> In your ideal world without lobbyists, how are the desires of the non-legislators communicated to the legislators?<

voting, petitions, democratic stuff like that. Likely there would be
some people who _look like_ lobbyists to the jaundiced eye (since they
specialize in communication between legislators and non-legislators),
but the point is not what you call them. Rather, it's to level the
playing field, so that lobbyists do not have any special advantage
over the non-lobbyists.

This is obviously assuming that there's an economy where owning
massive amounts of money gives some individuals a power advantage. The
basic principle is "one person, one vote," not (as roughly at present)
"one dollar, one vote."
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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