To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
End Lobbying and Preserve Democracy for the People
As long as Corporate Lobbying and Citizens United exists, there can never be a democracy that serves the people. As long as lobbing exists, the national rule will always be profits before people. Corporations will always be able to limit liability in instances of clear and direct accountability. By ending lobbying, we can make sure "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Why is this important?
As long as Corporate Lobbying and Citizens United exists, there can never be a democracy that serves the people. We've seen it all before, a nuclear power plant is leaking tritium into the city's water supply and the power plant's neighborhoods are all coming down with cancers and dying. Or maybe BP killed the community's livelihood and their chemical dispersants have made everyone that worked on the clean up ill by taking the oil spill out of sight and mind, but leaving it polluting the gulf. Or maybe oil and gas fracking is leaving hexavalent chromium polluting a community's water and benzene polluting their air and leaving everyone sick and the land dying. There are countless examples, but the result is often the same. The laws protect the corporations. The companies deny liability and argue out of fines and fees in court. All because lobbying creates a breach of liability for the corporations. Corporations are not people. Corporations shouldn't be allowed to be so far above the people. The U.S. was not founded as a feudal system with corporations on top. We used to have things like anti-trust laws to protect us from corporate greed run amok. It's time to bring that kind of people's protection from corporate greed back.