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Mr. Williams, I believe that you have missed some items in your article. There was a thing called Term Limit that had been passed several years ago that was to eliminate the good old boys way of doing things. Well, to me this has also failed. If you take a group of people who are trained, lawyers, at circumventing any written word and making it say either nothing, or just whatever they want it to say you need go no further than Washington. Like a barrel full of bad apples Washington is truly rotten to the core. To me there is only one way to straighten out Washington, or any other government agency either state or local. That would be to go out and throw all of them out and to start over. The new ones that go there are all ready beholding to their parties way of doing things. After all, does anyone go to Washington or anywhere else with out the helping hand of a political party and it's beliefs? If a person does not follow a parties beliefs that person will never get the help of any party and there fore not get their backing and support, and not getting elected. All of the back door politics, dirty deeds, underhanded dealings are a result of groups entrenched in their ideals, and not necessarily the best interests of the people they were sent there to represent. How else do you explain any group spending millions of dollars for a job that only pays a few hundred thousand a year? Power and nothing else but power to force your beliefs on the people either right or wrong. Geroge Orwells' book "Animal Farm" is alive and well in Washington. There are many changes in Washington that need to be done, but this will never happen. Lobbyist, they should be outlawed. Bills that are introduced should not be added on to. Any and all bills should go for an up or down vote on their own merit. How many possibly good bills have gone down in defeat because of other pork bellied bills have been added on to them. Holding bills in committee should never happen. A 30 day discussion period should be the only waiting period before a bill gets to be voted on. Just changing the guard every few years will not make Washington change. The leftover people will always make the apple barrel go bad no matter what good intentions were there to start with. The parties need to be thrown out and something new needs to be started. The entire political system is corrupted and not much will ever change that short of getting them thrown out. Anyone that is in politics needs to be banned form ever getting into any office local, state, or federal. We need to start over with getting all of the bumbs thrown out.

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I'd like to say as usual Williams' articles are great & this one is no different. I'd like to point out that not all the 35k lobbists in D.C. are engaging in nefarious adventures. Certainly, the greater portion are definitely, agreeing w/ Williams, that it is an unlawful crime to unduly influence this branch of government for anything outsise the interests of the people. I must say that those organizations and individuals who are advising the Congress on furthering rights to the people and against corporate power and unchecked influence and control over the people is a rightful and necessary action to save individual rights from the constant and persistent erosion of those rights. I must agree w/ the comments of Timothy Pennell, he is saying, I believe, that the revolution is overdue by more than a 100 yrs. Plz see the website for what is happening as described by Williams: http://thecrit.com/2008/10/04/the-best-kept-secret-in-america/ Mahalo, thank you, for reading both the article and the comments.

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Water. You ARE a handsome devil. Mrs. Williams is a lucky woman. As far as the rest of us go, I truly believe that the pendulem has swung, and that this Country is on it's last legs. Everybody always said, that we would fall from within. That's what ALL great nations do. Nobody LEARNS fros the misstakes of those who came before us. We have 535 people, in this country, that are KILLING it. WHY won't they accept TERM LIMITS? The President has them. Governors and Mayors have them. And how do these people get SO RICH, on such a small salary? See what THEY have done to our ECONOMY. THEY DID IT! They've brought us to the BRINK, and now their 'FIX' is gonna shove us over the cliff. When is it REVOLUTION time? The Declaration of Independence says that it is OUR DUTY, to OPPOSE the Government, when they no longer SERVE THE PEOPLE. Are we there yet?