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Dancing (collaborating?) With the Devil

A post by Nancy Watzman, keeps us aware of the Health Care Lobbyists Partying and Fundraising with Congress this Week

For those who haven’t been to the site, the Sunlight Foundation has a Foriegn Policy Infleuence Tracker and a Visualization of the Healthcare Lobbyist Complex

Michael Moore (on Leno last night), on his film, Capitalism a Love Story.

The point, as I’ve said before, in the “get Karats and give carrots” example (Moore uses the 9 slices of the pie example), coercion takes the free out of the free market, making it a controlled market, and ethically you can’t have a controlled market in which the controller is one of the players. The interview is here and it is worth a watch.

The transcript at the Nation. Michael Moore on Leno: “Capitalism is Legalized Greed”

A comment off, quick links before dinner, production.

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