The Corporate Lobby In Washington

Nothing Short Of A Federal Investigation Can Begin To Disclose The Abuses Which Have Woven A Fine Web Of Mutually Implicating Relationships Between Businessmen And Government Officials.

Let It Not Be Said By A Future, Forlorn Generation That We Wasted And Lost Our Great Potential Because Our Despair Was So Deep We Didn't Even Try, Or Because Each Of Us Thought Someone Else Was Worrying About Our Problems.

One Day At Princeton, I Noticed There Were Dead Birds On The Pavement Between The Campus Buildings, Where Very Large Trees Were. It Turns Out It Was Ddt. At The Time, In The Early '50s, No One Thought Ddt Was Dangerous To Anybody But Insects. I Went Down To The Daily Princetonian, The College Paper, And Tried To Persuade Them To Do A Story. They Said, "naw, There's Nothing Wrong." But That Taught Me A Very Important Lesson. One, That Newspaper People Can Get Very Jaded. Second, That You Might Know Something, Like An Expert Chemistry Professor, You Are Not Going To Apply What You Know.

Companies Like Enron Have Learned That Small Investments In Endowing Chairs, Sponsoring Research Programs Or Hiring Moonlighting Professors Can Return Big Payoffs In Generating Books, Reports, Articles, Testimony And Other Materials To Push For And Rationalize Public Policy Positions That Damage The Public Interest But Benefit Corporate Bottomlines.

You [jill Stein] Also Believe In A Full Employment Policy That Was The Majority Democratic Party Policy In 1946. They Actually Passed A Law To That Effect. You Want To End Poverty And When People See How Relatively Easy It Is To End Poverty. And One Way Is To Increase The Minimum Wage: Catch Up; It's Been Frozen For So Many Years.