if we hired one to represent WE THE PEOPLE?!! I've been thinking about this. It seems that everybody with a lobbyist and a big pocketbook gets what they want from congress.
Maybe we could all pool what money we have left and hire a lobbyist to represent US. At least then we'd have some representation.
If someone is willing to spew nonsense and brown nose for money, there's nothing you can offer him that the people who print the money can't match.
There's no way to get a guy you can trust, because every lobbyist who is anywhere near effective will not bite small fish.
And then, even if you find one lobbyist with connections dumb enough to take your money, he'd be dead within a week.
It's a mafia-led organization. Lobbyists are fronts for mafia schmoozers wiggling themselves in the ears of politicians, wining and dining them. Treat them like the mafiosos they are, and you'll realize there's nothing to gain from signing up with a Don Corleone wannabe.
It wouldn't be a small fish, it would be people from the whole country. It's obviously (I thought, obviously, anyway) a thought experiment. I just think it's interesting that our congress, which was supposed to be for we the people, has become the congress of the corporations and of course, their own self interests. "We" hire them to work for us, but they work for those who pay them far better than we do. So maybe we just need to get their attention by hiring our own lobbyist.