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		olh on Jan 22, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Crowd-sourced political lobby As a non-american, it's a cultural mind-blow to think that you guys need to pay your guys-in-charge so they do their jobs properly.

SoftwareMaven on Jan 22, 2012 | [–]

Trust me, we aren't very keen on it, either.

bjnortier_hn on Jan 22, 2012 | [–]

It is really disturbing that you need to pay to get access to your own government. The greatest trick the Lobbyists ever pulled was replacing "corruption" with "lobbying" in the dictionary.

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