How Lobbying Became A $3.5 Billion Industry

@Gareth De Bruyn im not gonna speak about the correctness or the wrongness of what they did but, they did what the other 2 families i wont mention have been doing for a century. But my view on things is, South Africa needs a collaboration of public and private capital. China made it work, we can make it work as well. Caz nationalisation definately wont work, and considering our history, privatazation isnt the answer either. So, the two need to work together.

​@Gareth De Bruyn Even though countries like Brasil & SA have a lot of corruption at least they occasionally do something about it. But nothing is being done in the US. Not even in '08, no one is being held accountable. One of the scariest things about our culture is that we have the resources to change, but we choose not to.

Pure semantics. Pay to Play is the MO for anyone in Politics, not the "Greater Good" a policy can affect. It's why we have political system of diminishing returns, the more Lobbying by the Fortune 1000 & their Associations, the less effective the governance We the People receive.

Lobbying is a very big issue in Australia too. We once tried to tax our mining companies, as they are our biggest industry and they hardly pay tax, but that was shut down by one of the most expensive lobbying campaigns of all time.

Yes it is. It's rather sad.
Even Khan Academy's video on lobbying paints a friendly or vague picture. I break it down on my channel, if you're interested.

In 1976 Buckley v Valeo went to the supreme court and the court made it legal to the constitution which is where we are today. Corporate lobbying definitely has a influence cause our energy should've already been on solar, wind, nuclear and other renewable energy. There should be a great proportion of electric cars on the road. Fossil fuel, gas and oil companies should be heavily struggling or out businesses.
People should be making a $15 wage or higher by now. Mandated Family paid leave, Medicare For All, sick paid leave should be here.

Yes it is. I detail this topic further on my channel, if you're interested.
-Israel

Yes that's exactly what it is

​@@comebackcodplayer8248 I took an Alternative Energy Systems course in my BSME undergrad, this topic was heavily related, but at the same time is a double edged sword. i.e.: the automobile industry has long existed as well as electric vehicles back in the early 1900s and yes oil became the main choice. So oil and such industries like coal, and often are thought of as dirty pollutants, but people sometimes forget that electricity has to be generated somehow through dirty means depending on POV (coal burning to run steam cycle turbines, hydro electric water pumping, nuclear with heavily toxic byproducts albeit one of the most efficient energy generators per mass volume). All these things in everyday life have a "process" to which they must go through for hi production, etc.. and often those old processes such as auto mfg, oil, plastics production etc.. have been refined so much over the decades that they're very efficient not to mention they have well established supply chains and abilities to produce demands. Whereas say how it's less polluting to the environment to produce a plastic bottle from scratch than to just recycle plastic and reform materials from it. The technologies are changing so fast nowadays that it's going to take some time for these "cleaner solutions" to actually become more efficient and feasible than older remedies. Same with cars, it's a cleaner, more efficient to produce a typical gas economical vehicle like a nissan versa, honda civic vs typical HEV/PHEVs like a prius, tesla, leafs etc, due to all these electrical components requiring heavy amounts of rare earth metals, specialty parts and manufacturing processes and supply chains that still need refinement. Same goes with solar, it's still a fairly inefficient process to be a holistic solution because it doesnt work as well as it should theoretically for the amount of energy input into production. Wind is geographically limited and not so feasible everywhere, because it still takes large amounts of metal and requires large amounts of windings etc for power generation and transmission. Big topic also "infastructure" issues... geothermal energy sources are only relatively viable options at such distances until they become inefficient and nonpractical. Even if say these were largely lobbied topics with a high public support, things would need their lifetimes to come to an equilibrium amongst everything else, until one outdoes the other and becomes obsolete.

Corrupting the government

Trafico de influencias

In europe they call it lobbying too... here it's on a multinational level trough the EU

Yes, get big money out of politics such as the George Soros Open Society foundation that's furthering GLOBAL COMMUNISM.

Totally!

And Bribery

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Of course they will.

weird how that works.

Lobbyist: Lobbys are good.
Public: It's bribery and should be illegal.

And obviously people these days gobble up what they say simply because they work with authoritative figures.

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U.S. Corp Act of 1871 and District of Columbia Act of 1871. UNITED STATES INC.

not only in the US

I'm not sure in other country, but something called lobbying is straight up illegal in my place. It's a blatant bribery aka a corruption.

I think socialist countries better fit this

Yes the biggest most corrupt company in the world they make Apple and Amazon look like the best tax paying companies in the world

Only reason why they want us to think that is because people are starting to wake up and see that its exactly that. Bribery and corruption for industrial+ class.

...are exercising our first amendment rights. They actually believe that

Lobbying is a excuse to keep power, whereas the government outstepping it´s boundaries is more often than not a power grab disguised as "fair regulation".
We should´ve held the lawyers accountable to the Law of the People a long time ago instead of giving them free reign to scam and fearmonger people into lobbying.

“It’s bribery with extra steps”- Morty Smith

It's not very interesting.

Plus, it is public knowledge

Let me correct myself in saying that everything a lobbyist does has to be recorded and televised on national tv with FULL TRANSPARENCY FOR EVERYONE TO SEE! Too many back room deals and laws created for special interest groups who hide behind PACs and LLC’s. It time to put faces on the money trails and bad laws only benefiting a few!
And we must have a budget and stop hiding behind National Security! National Security will end up bankrupting the United States!
The biggest employer in the United States is the Federal Government. And it is all bankrolled on the backs of middle class America! The ones who can hardly pay their own taxes. And then you have ass wipes like Trump who is above the law and celebrates that he pays no taxes and get refunds in the hundreds of millions!

It is public knowledge. Lobbyists need to register if they spend more than 80% advocating for an issue.

Pretty much everything everybody does is somebody's knowledge. I really don't care if you want to know how much I love Florida rivers and the state in general and fighting against its probably inevitable decline... xD
Sorry there, kind of got sidetracked, seems to be a trend lately lol

@S C 'Not all propositions by lobbyists are bad' is not a great defense. That's like saying allowing doctors to be bribed by drug companies isn't a bad idea, because occasionally they would prescribe medicine that worked. Lobbyists don't have a vested interest in crafting good policy - they have a vested interest in achieving corporate goals. _Sometimes_ that might result in a decent proposition, but often it will not, when one of the prime functions of government is to protect individuals from exploitation and gross harm.
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Even if you hate politicians - lobbyists (especially corporate ones) don't help. There are public policy experts who aren't getting paid by big business in almost any field you care to name - incorporate _them_ into policy discussions!

@S C You misunderstood. My point wasn't that lobbying is bribery, it's that in both situations you are dealing with individuals with conflicts of interests who might, on occasion, end up doing a 'good thing' just because it happens to coincide with their agenda.
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The other example I was going to use (that doesn't work quite as well, because it doesn't hit on the conflict of interest element) was having 5-year olds giving out medical advice - occasionally, they'll tell you to eat your veggies, which is decent advice. That doesn't mean it's a good idea to have 5 year old doctors.

@S C and I'm living in what you call 3rd world country and what I see is bribe with some class

he has a youtube channel if you're interested, under his own name - Robert Reich with >200k subscibers

@S C Made in USA food is often unsellable in the EU due to lacking comparable food safety standards and the US also prohibits the use of only a fraction of chemicals in consumer products (shampoo, deodorant) compared to the EU, in fact, some chemicals that are banned in China are allowed to be sold in the US, so Chinese sells to Yankees some stuff that is unsellable even in the smoggy garbage bin of industrial waste country like China. And don't get me started on the state of gun control debate in the US... Why you think the US is where it is??? If you think that paid lobbying does not have power over law creation you can as well believe that you have the same chance to win a law dispute in front of a judge with your by law freely given lawyer as a rich guy armed with a fleet of expensive lawyers "lobbying" for his rights...
The trouble is not that corporations should not have their own voice, trouble is that opposition of corporations like the organized neighborhood that does not want his area polluted by some factory posing health hazards for the local community due to factory actively cutting down on waste disposal budget, for example, does not have anywhere to an equal chance to lobby against a corporation with much more resources to lobby or directly incentivize politicians to see only corporation's point of view in order to keep things the same way at the expense of average people.
You can check for example Heartland Insitute a professional lobbying group for among other things denying/doubting human-made negative effects of climate change for the industry sake, they even got own teenage anti-Greta for creating doubt in public, just watch this video made by pro shill group, its pure gold and tell you all you need to know about what is wrong with paid lobbying: krplus.net/bidio/ndWdnIilaY_LpIY

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
The most memorable pages in Das Kapital are the descriptive passages, culled from Parliamentary Blue Books, on the misery of the English working class. Marx believed that this misery would increase, while at the same time the monopoly of capital would become a fetter upon production until finally “the knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.”
hint hint, two class system, neoliberal (capitalist) KILLED the middle class
rich / poor
Employer / employee
Bourgeois / labor
Lord / serf
Master / slave
In Marxist philosophy, the bourgeoisie is the social class that came to own the means of production during modern industrialization and whose societal concerns are the value of property and the preservation of capital to ensure the perpetuation of their economic supremacy in society.
CAPITALISM IS NOT DEMOCRATIC
AND IT IS BROKEN as in:
you are labor, sorry
ARE YOU THE EMPLOYER OR THE EMPLOYEE
ARE YOU THE BOURGEOISIE OR LABOR
ARE YOU THE LORD OR A SERF
ARE YOU THE MASTER OR A SLAVE
Can you quit your job ? retire ?
No, then you are labor, make that a slave. LOL
when can you retire ?
$10B AT 3.65% = $1M PER DAY $365M PER YEAR
$1B AT 3.65% = $100K PER DAY $36.5M PER YEAR
$100M AT 3.65% = $10K PER DAY $3.65M PER YEAR
$10M AT 3.65% = $1K PER DAY $365K PER YEAR
$1M AT 3.65% = $100 PER DAY $36.5K PER YEAR
$100K AT 3.65% = $10 PER DAY $3.65K PER YEAR
What is wrong ? well punk, are you a slave ?
That's right the Capital brings the relationship of power, class division if you understand it as so. Capital is not only that described by prof. Wolff but also political power that is needed to maintain it, the superstructure. So for example, in 2008 the Gov. could have instead of giving the billions bailout "almost free money" to the financial system, actually financed(bought) part of the debt of the people who bought the houses or whatever. Even if the price was too high, the effect would be exactly the same(maybe better for the bubble) for the economy except that the power would go to save the people and no the rich capitalists who made a lot on the financial system. The money would come exactly from the same place, but without people have lose their homes, etc. Unfortunately, that irelative power. Capital is power,as much any previous class system we had. The only difference is that the previous systems used a form of violent dominance over the lower class, while Capitalists uses their Capital and power to create their ideology, including that fake story that says everyone can be rich is just a matter of hard working or good entrepreneurship.
got your rice and beans ?
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@@jamesmorton7881 amen. Epic report. Cultural hegemony is happening. Go watch my video the system is broken on my channel. You nailed it. 🔥

Great quote

Its a tool of oligarcy

good quote

Yes it is.
I break it down further on my channel, if you're interested in this. :)

The problem is that a corporation is not people, it is some greedy man. Who stands out of the crowd.

@@valeriucore4613 It should be dilluted into multiple shareholders, but then comes the problem of agressive takeovers, so...

Lobbying should not be vilified. It is extremely misunderstood.

@moe raff No not really

@moe raff Oh really? What let me first ask you this - What do you think a lobbyist does? Most people can't answer this simple question.

You can lobby yourself too if you’re a millionaire. What makes you be a judge when you got millions of dollars to protect? Wouldn’t you lobby to keep making more money? I would too, but I do it to where I make it a good move and not a lost opportunity where someone else would turn that into a shithole.

She jus wanted to subtley but not so subtle interjected herself on the topic. But in actuality probably jus makes coffee ☕ and sandwich runs. For these guys answer phones and wat not..

You're corrupt.

​@@twostepz4982 so you don't see anything wrong with wealthy individuals lobbying government to bend rules or change laws for themselves to make more money until, they have enough power to control government? lol

She's a liar.

Golivewiththis you got it right

You mean corruption?

@@TruthShallPrevail4 Haha yeah! Thanks for correcting

First World Version

Yeah pretty much

E Cognitio Legalized corruption.

Yes it is. Legal bribery by corporations. I detail this topic further on my channel, if you're interested.
-Israel

Excellent point and so true.

Big Facts

The founding father put a sort of fail safe in were if government got to messy the bureaucracy would slow everything to a crawl... that's what I see at least

Yeah, as in the politicians shouldn't be there.

Soaking them in a salt solution

JadedJassy21 He is straight up honest and unapologetic.

Well that doesn't make sense though, there are industries outside of goverment, actually every industry outside of goverment, who know more about their industry & interests than the government who is legislating on them- doctors know more about how a certain policy would affect their ability to do their jobs & positively or negatively impact public health & so forth than do federal state& local government departments, doctors in coties might have differnt perspectives from doctors in rural areas, you cant just assume that the government knows everything- THEY DONT, but that is the point of the right to petition the government/ special interst groups& lobbying etc, there are legitimate reasons that groups would want their voices& opinions to be heard when it comes to matters that concern them/ congress passing laws that effect them, but the problem is that the biggest corporations who have the most $& influence & the revolving door etc means that the voices of a small number overpower all else. There is a huge problem with the dark money & big money/ Corp money on politics- THATS the problem. Not lobbying in and of itself. As they said it's the big money that drowning the voices of everyone else. It's not the voices having a voice(I e the ability to lobby).

I believe that the federal, state and local government can understand the information if professionals take the time to lobby and advocate. I'm going to do it!

@@cartergomez5390 good luck getting a meeting.

Oldest profession.

It was supposed to be a duty, not job

It´s the oldest con artist game, hold the monopoly of violence, tax your citizens (not the really rich ones) and tell them all that is for a good reason, promise them safety and security while eroding their freedoms, eventually a crisis hits and the poor majority gets nothing while the little minority gets all the benefits, disgusting zero sum game, should´ve been abolished and replaced with a better system a long time ago.

He's actually not. I break this down on my channel if you're interested.
-Israel

Fun fact: cussing people is more honest than sweet people

They do but the U.S. definitely has the worst when it comes to Corporate influence.

South Korea: Am I a joke to you?

Agreed. You are hot also. Go sub :)

Things would be amazing without Lobbying, for once Lawyers would have less power as they deserve.

@@TheDoomWizard bruh

@@sebas8225 I disagree. Alot.

Yeahhh seeing that the value of property goes up over time as the said property is aging over time. haahh

Just say the USA is an Democratic Oligrachy.

It's why we need to eliminate the human part of governance. No special interests, no perversion of law and order

@@richcast66 LOL, good luck with that. Can't eliminate the human element, it's all about the humans.

@@richcast66 After 2 months you wrote this comment, does anything changed?

Bruh

He’s the one guy who got them to pay warehouse employees $15/hr nationwide. That money they throw at him is most likely there to make him more quiet about other initiatives, like their biggest fear of unionization.

@@ezioaltairac
But accepting corporate lobbying money? That’s not cool. I love Bernie, but I’ll have to turn on pull back on some of my support if he’s willing to dabble in that crap.

@@thedebatehitman Yeah I agree with you there. I did read somewhere (either NPR or Reuters) that the money he got from Amazon was tied to promotions and sales of his new books. Because it’s out-of-place that the poorest senator that gets near least corporate money suddenly surged to the top after a 30+ year career in politics.

Very true but that money is being split up to buy a relatively small number of people

@@Aaron-wq3jz Indeed. There are about 9000 state-level or above legislators, department heads, governors, etc in the USA. The entirety of government leadership is actually not that many people. $3.5B is enough to --pay every single one of them $350k a year-- donate $350k a year to their election campaigns while in office

Yep. It certainly would be. So much so that the entirety of the US would collapse, and millions would die. China and Russia will definitely be happy about it though.