Forum Post: Lobbyists and Their Financial Sector Counterparts
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 14, 2011, 8:59 p.m. EST by LastWaltz
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from Medford, NY
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From all of the research I have been inspired to do toward this particular corruption, I was wondering the opinions of fellow occupiers about the close ties between Wall Street and K Street?
It's discerning the amount of money that is being used to sway political opinion to the lobbyists with the biggest dollar. The top 10 lobbyists groups have spent anywhere from $1 billion to $4 billion dollars, each, from 1998 to 2010. Finance, Insurance and Real Estate taking the lead at over 4.2 billion dollars. These investments slap our forefathers in the face. It is an abuse of rights to further corporate loopholes and make the laws most suitable for them.
Lobbyists are protected under the first amendment right to petition- but, what about the people? How are the "average" citizen concerns to compete with millions of dollars and thousands of powerful politicos-turned-lobbyists each year?
Some things I've been reading: http://useconomy.about.com/od/criticalssues/p/Dodd-Frank-Wall-Street-Reform-Act.htm
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/the-dodd-frank-bill-up-close/
http://www.newint.org/features/2011/01/01/10-worst-corporate-lobbyists/
Please share any other related readings or opinions!
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Make Corporations Responsible for Communities at large... they need to be responsible actors in this game - they need to be forced to change ... Read Neale Walsh ... says it perfectly ... any corporation - all employee salaries are visible - each knows what each is making... cap the salary level where above this any profits get cut - percentage to the work force... percentages to management - they get paid more for a reason and are not hourly for a reason- they are paid high enough already to make the hard decisions... workers making the product, workers keeping the quality high and making management happy deserve the biggest bang... now once you have that you take another percentage and GIVE to programs - GIVE to charity ... you make your American Corporations RESPONSIBLE - put this into legislation - ADD THIS TO OUR LISTS OF DEMANDS: CHANGE EXISTING Legislation - we need to see Banking Regs change - we need to change the SEC rules and regs... we need to change the way corporations are allowed to do business. THEY MUST be made into responsible bodies that support their communities... Make Corps Responsible to the Communities at large...
I think it goes beyond that. Why are we OK as a country with that much private money slipping into the government? How can you trust corporations to just give, it rarely happens. They consider lobbying a form of giving!
Yes it goes beyond this. Besides making corporations evolve in how they think and how they behave we also need to address many of the ways our government runs. Corps not being allowed to give to lobbyists starts a huge wave that will affect the community mindset that will ripple down to the individual patron. This is nothing that is a beginning nor an end to the change that will happen... this is a recommendation and an idea to incorporate into our lists of demands.
Individuals work for companies - individuals speak and spread the word - the words of change - whether they agree or not - just the mere fact that we will talk about this or any big change cast upon our countries financial institutions and corporations will form the foundation and there will be more exchanges of ideas so in the end we develop a world where people LIKE equality and justice,.
We all want the corruption to END. AN example that i lived through, a company in the throws of making itself a public company. The CEO who brings on a VP of Operations who lied and led the soon to be board of directors and shareholders (banks and finance institutions) to believe that what was shown on the reports they were looking at were real assets both already purchased and purchases we had on the books. Those purchases on the books were not real. There were thousands of dollars of raw materials showing on order but the purchase orders never went to the suppliers. They LIED all for GREED - the almighty dollar was going to gain that fat rich CEO a huge second home ... while the rank and file received NOTHING ! NOTHING of what became a very prosperous company. WHY COULDN"T THEY DO IT WITHOUT LYING ... WHY? This is everywhere in corporate life - EVERYWHERE much worse is done on a daily basis. JUST moving our jobs to a country that pays their labor $1 / week -
I hear you and hope that this all goes down pushing HUGE Change upon our business community - they have to be quelled and made to behave in HUMANE and JUST ways.
Definitely! I agree.