Corporations, labour unions, governments, and other interests spent a record-setting 2.79 billion dollars last year in hopes of influencing policy, the group said. This marked a 7.7 percent, or 200-million-dollar, increase over 2006, also a bumper year for the influence industry.
http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1407
We are all generalizing here. If you are a big business you are damn likely to lobby and donate to campaigns of politicians.
I’ll bet you can fit a lot of golf outings and vacations in 2.8 billion dollars.
And correct me if I’m wrong but youre saying that doing something illegal occasionally is more legal than doing it all the time as examples listed above? People are out to make money too…