Big business and organizations acting badly

ROBERT REICH: "How soon until big industries and their Washington lobbyists have become so politically powerful that secret White House-industry deals like this are prerequisites to any important legislation? When will it become standard practice that such deals come with hundreds of millions of dollars of industry-sponsored TV advertising designed to persuade the public that the legislation is in the public’s interest?" [Surprising, huh? Robert Reich is the former Secretary of Labor under President Clinton, who stated earlier this year that jobs created by stimulus spending should not go to whites. He is right on the mark on this, however.]

NEW YORK TIMES, 8/8/2009 by David Kirkpatrick: WASHINGTON — The drug industry has authorized its lobbyists to spend as much as $150 million on television commercials supporting President Obama’s health care overhaul, beginning over the August Congressional recess, people briefed on the plans said Saturday. Read more at NYT...

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