Right on. There are something like 60,000 lobbyists in Washington, D.C. That is what every piece of progressive legislation in Congress is up against.

I am in the medical field. One of the greatest travesties of the last 4 years is the Medicare Part D drug plan - a terrific and necessary program to help seniors pay for medicines, but the bill passed with a specific prohibition that the government is not allowed to negotiate the best prices for drugs. This was in course inserted at the behest of lobbyists for big Pharm - representing companies with some of the largest profit margins on Wall Street. These companies are immoral profiteers, and our government is specifically forbidden to do a thing about it. Meanwhile drug prices soar. No restraint, obscene profit.

I would love to think that Obama's election will put all 60,000 of these characters out of work next January, and know that's too optimistic. But as the Chinese proverb says, the longest journey starts with the first step, and the DNC has taken an important step.

Keep shouting from the rooftops!

WTG, and many thanks for your courage!

I am the amazed and impressed child of a single-mother, former graduate student who was herself deeply in debt - hang in there. The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is real.