Talk:Declaration4Independence

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a couple of quick notes

(Minor) The hypothetical situation with hospitals hiring doctors on the basis of the amount of support they can bring in from the pharma industry is very much the current situation in academic research. I think you may have even discussed this in one of your Change Congress talks, so perhaps you'd already rejected the idea of making that connection here.

(Less minor) One way to look at, or "frame", the effect of lobbying influence: it doesn't change what individual congresspeople do, but it does change who is there to do it, and this has the same end effect – The vector sum of Congress's agenda is heavily influenced by money. There's got to be some easily-graspable metaphor for this effect (something involving sports, perhaps?) but it eludes me at the moment.

--Woozle 16:22, 4 August 2008 (PDT)