On 7 Jul 2006 20:44:49 -0700, "Gordon" wrote in
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Our system is broken. The
people who benefit from it being broken are the only ones that are in a
position to fix it, so its going to STAY broken.

Are you saying that the corporations who pay the bribes, for surely
they reap the most benefit from them, are the ones that are in a
position to make the US Congress ethical and honest? Perhaps that is
correct; all that has to be proved is that their actually paid for
congressional favors. Once the corporations find that they are at
risk in paying bribes, they might think twice.