Abramoff lobbied hard to ensure the islands maintained their special status, flying politicians there to play golf on "fact-finding missions." He succeeded. DeLay later hailed the Northern Marianas as a "free-market success."
Corporate lobbyists are why one in six Americans has no health insurance, even though almost two-thirds want a universal government healthcare system that would provide coverage to everyone. Corporate lobbyists are why the minimum wage has not been increased for the past nine years, even though 86 percent of Americans support a substantial hike. They pimp the principle of democracy in pursuit of profit -- they are the cancer within a body politic that boasts a clean bill of health.
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