Today there are 35 thousand corporate lobbyists in our government with more on the way. The influence of greed ... is 350 times a intense as when Nixon was sent home. This means that every candidate, every politician, every secretary, every boss of all the major parties has a "stop button" on their back, and means just about any reform legislation that comes before them can be blocked. This is why so many problems within our borders have been allowed to run amok for three decades, it's because the reforms have been quietly stopped. To do nothing in the face of such vital need is unacceptable. And to simply step onto the pre-made footsteps of failure is equally as unacceptable as doing nothing at all
