What is Lobbying? According to Wikipedia Lobbying (also Lobby) is a form of advocacy with the intention of influencing decisions made by legislators and officials in the government by individuals, other legislators, constituents or advocacy groups. According to One Year Auction lobbying is a bribery.

The key phrase in this description is "intention of influencing decisions". It is truly amazing that in a country which should be the example of morals and democracy bribery like scheme is a legitimate business. Why do U.S. law makers even bother talking to lobbyist? The reality is that today lobbyists are the greatest donors and sources of funding when it comes to the next election campaign. Our senators and congressmen can't survive without lobbyists because the evil machine is set up this way. Lobbyists keep arguing that they represent private interests and help legislators navigate through complex bill proposals. It is a perfect machine for private interests of Fortune 500 companies but what about the little guy? Who's going to represent his interests?

If you want to know whose interest really get represented go check Open Secrets website. You can search for top contributors of presidential or congressional campaigns. The amounts of moneys donated are quite astonishing from the little guy's prospective but for those donors this is the best investment ever made. For example few of the top contributors to Mr. Obama's presidential campaign were Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Google and JP Morgan Chase. And guess what; those companies are still doing great in spite of the Great Recession. The rest of us can just sit back and watch the show.