Top Five Lobbies F**king Up Our Country (IMO)

[Robert DAH Bruce]

1. Finance
2. Energy (Oil/Coal/Fossil Fuels)
3. Israel
4. Gun
5. Agriculture (Read: Monsanto)

For now, I have taken Big Pharma and the insurance companies off the list: We'll just have to see how HCR plays out.

[midnight]

1. How do these top five fit in with the fortune 500 group?

[Radical Activist]

2. Coal.

Replace 3 or 4 with coal.

[Robert DAH Bruce]

6. I've added it to #2

[Odin2005]

3. Replace "gun" with Insurance and "Oil" with Fossil Fuels. and you would be right, IMO.

1. I'm suck of the anti-gun people

2. Big Coal is just as evil as Big Oil.

[virginia mountainman]

4. replace 3 and 4 with...

3. Drug prohibition lobby

4. Gun Control Lobby

[slackmaster]

5. The English System of Weights and Measures Lobby is far more destructive than any of those

[NorthCarolina]

7. Shouldn't AIPAC be #1 on the list?

Or are these presented in no particular order?

[Robert DAH Bruce]

8. AIPAC has a very negative impact on our foreign policy

But there are other people in the pro-Israel lobby: AEI, Christian Zionists, etc.

[conspirator]

9. I would say Israel is related to oil. If there was only sand in the middle east

Israel would not exist by now.

[BoWanZi]

10. I don't think the gun lobby is as big of a deal as you make it out to be.

Being pro gun or anti gun is very important to a lot of people but it is an emotional issue, not an issue that is directly affecting the direction of the country which all the other 4 choices do. The others have an effect on everyone, the gun lobbies only affect a certain portion of all people and if all gun laws were to swing one way or the other, it won't affect the United States as a whole other than to make some people feel good and others to get really pissed off.

[Hannah Bell]

11. if "gun" = "military," fine. if it's just the handgun crowd, i think it's minor in comparison.

[FLAprogressive]

12. Big Ag/Big Food are much worse than the gun lobby.

[Robert DAH Bruce]

14. Well, I did include it,

albeit at a lower rank; so there's not a lot of disagreement between us. ;-)

[JoeyT]

13. Prison Lobbies.

We've got an absurdly high amount of our citizens in jail or prison, an awful lot of whom were committing "crimes" that weren't hurting anyone but themselves, if that. There's a reason for it.

[Robert DAH Bruce]

15. For 157099

:nuke:

[OxQQme]

16. Here's another

The Chamber of Commerce

[DakotaBlue75]

17. Health insrance?

What about the health insurance lobby?