In this review at Forbes by John Tamney of Poorer Richard’s America – What Would Ben Say?
If there’s disagreement with Blair about corporate influence it’s in his assertion that “America must expel Corporate America, and its paid agents, from the streets of Washington and the halls of Congress.” My own view is that lobbyists are merely a symptom of the bigger problem that Blair understands intimately, and that Blair wrote about in his introduction: too many Americans expect the feds to kiss their wounds. If the federal government were held to the strict enumerated limits laid out in the Constitution, we wouldn’t have to worry about lobbyists.
If there’s disagreement with Blair about corporate influence it’s in his assertion that “America must expel Corporate America, and its paid agents, from the streets of Washington and the halls of Congress.”
My own view is that lobbyists are merely a symptom of the bigger problem that Blair understands intimately, and that Blair wrote about in his introduction: too many Americans expect the feds to kiss their wounds.
If the federal government were held to the strict enumerated limits laid out in the Constitution, we wouldn’t have to worry about lobbyists.
Now about half-way through Steven Brill’s Time Magazine opus Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us and having developed a better understanding of the behemoth known as the health care lobby, that highlighted sentence makes even more sense (though “expelling Corporate America, and its paid agents, from the streets of Washington and the halls of Congress” would be an acceptable solution as well).
