Word: processing
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...learning process," Lee said. "It would have been nice to win it but we need to move on from there and realize there are more important things...
That's easy. It's the President, many members of Congress and the Democratic and Republican parties--all of whom have milked the war for millions of dollars in campaign contributions--along with the lobbyists who abetted the process...
While clever in its obscurity, Section 6001 is not an especially big giveaway by Capitol Hill standards. Rather, it is typical among the growing litany of examples of how Washington extends favorable treatment to one set of citizens at the expense of another. It's a process that frequently causes serious, sometimes fatal economic harm to unwary individuals and businesses that...
...many. Looked at another way, almost any time a citizen or a business gets what it wants through campaign contributions and lobbying, someone else pays the price for it. Sometimes it's a few people, sometimes millions. Sometimes it's one business, sometimes many. In short, through a process often obscured from public view, Washington anoints winners and creates losers. Among the recent winners and the wannabes, who collectively have contributed millions of dollars to candidates and their parties and spent generously on lobbying...
...have become numb to the news of campaign-finance abuses, in part because they are usually seen as a Washington issue: of course money influences politics, but that's the government's problem, not mine. What Barlett and Steele set out to show is who gets hurt in the process, and that means you and your neighbors...