Once you get caught breaking the law, it just means you did not spend enough money trying to change the law.

Government of the banks, for the banks, by the banks.

Corporations are people to my friend!

Well, at least until they get busted for committing hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud. Then they just pay a fine much smaller than their illegal proceeds, admit no wrongdoing, and keep right on minting money in marginally moral, and legally gray ways.

If the corporations were in fact people, they would serve a few decades in prison for their crimes. Ya know, I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.

Maybe people just need more lobbyist. Lobbyist watching out for the public interest. Lobbyist working for a sense of decency, a level playing field, the public commons. Lobbyist for corporate profits vs. lobbyist for the common good. Wouldn't that be the best democracy money could buy?

Two of the most disgusting ideals of democracy, American style, have become campaigns and lobbying efforts. We need campaign reform, not to create a bias towards one group or another, but to stop the insane amount of money flowing, and to promote reality of the candidates instead of an image. Finally, call "lobbying" EXACTLY what it is; bribery.

Why shouldn't banks have the same access to government you and I do? They should. In other words their access through lobbyists should be as limited as yours and mine are. Let them send an email, write a letter, or make a phone call to staff, just like you or I. But lobbying, helping write legislation? Nope draw a line and sanction line crossers on both sides of the line (meaning the lobbiest and the lobbied official) draconianly.