Reply #25: Check again.

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They do care. There are over eleven thousand lobbyists in Washington who spent almost 3.5 billion dollars to influence elected officials in 2009. The vast bulk of those lobbyists and their money came from big business. How many of those lobbyists do you know? How many of them have you voted for? How many of them know you?

The only people who don't care how much money is in Washington are the people who are supposed to be running it; the citizens of the United States who have turned management of the country over to organizations whose only allegiance is to the richest 1% of their stockholders.

Private bond rating agencies played a pivotal role in the in the creation of all the worthless derivatives that almost destroyed the economy of the entire planet.