Some thoughts about influencing government politics into some business sectors

[Chris Ryser]

Some thoughts about influencing government politics into some business sectors, and doing some research on it.

I found some interesting facts by just falling on one of the most interesting and high ranking websites. It also mentions that you can feel free to reproduce their results for educational and informative reasons.

Did you know that the highest class of top spenders for Lobbying is the medical industry and their insurances and manufacturers.

Lobbying Client	Total
US Chamber of Commerce	$24,765,000
National Assn of Realtors	$10,187,567
Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America	$8,143,750
American Medical Assn	$7,040,000
Blue Cross/Blue Shield	$6,450,000
American Hospital Assn	$5,685,110
Dow Chemical	$5,290,000
AT&T Inc	$4,597,500
Northrop Grumman	$4,300,000
Novartis AG	$4,057,954
Boeing Co	$3,980,000
General Motors	$3,930,000
National Assn of Broadcasters	$3,770,000
Pfizer Inc	$3,740,000
Comcast Corp	$3,720,000
Lockheed Martin	$3,558,387
Alphabet Inc	$3,520,000
Southern Co	$3,470,000
Exxon Mobil	$3,440,000
Chevron Corp	$3,270,000

Total for Misc Manufacturing & Distributing: $22,418,664
Total Number of Clients Reported: 267
Total Number of Lobbyists Reported: 677
Total Number of Revolvers: 448 (66.2%)




Data for the most recent year was downloaded on April 24, 2017.


See all of it:
https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/to...17&indexType=s

[Uncle Fester]

I recall a fact of lobbyists getting something like $10 back for every dollar spent. It's where we independents have fallen flat on our eyeglass faces.

We do not play the game our current oligarch $$ based system of government requires.

But now I'm out again onto the thin political ice that Steve hates us to talk about.

How much money would we have to lobby the Chuck Schumer's of our states and Washington if we pooled just 0.5% of our gross to a PAC as a cost of doing business?

Oopps- I'm a little low. It's $220 for every dollar according to this article from a well respected magazine---

http://www.economist.com/node/21531014

[Hayde]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTwJzTsb2QQ

[Chris Ryser]

We do not play the game our current oligarch $$ based system of government requires.

.......and we never will.

If you look at the above list of the largest donors there are 6 corporations related to the medical sector.

That is also why the medication I take on a daily basis, as a heart patient, costs me Can $ 86.00 per month and when we spent the winter in Florida and I ran out of it the last month, and had to get an Rx from a MD that charged me for the consultation, and the drugstore took US $ 2300.00 for a month worth of the exact same pills.

That is nearly 17 times more than we pay in Canada.

Then we can figure out that there must a tremendous profit on all levels of the medical prescription services, and that just a simple country border can make such a difference.