From the INTELLIGENCE REPORT (parade.com/intel):
While drafting major legislation on energy policy, health care, and the economy this term, members of Congress have been bombarded with phone calls, letters, e-mails, and petitions from constituents. So-called grassroots campaigns are often effective because they're thought to represent the will of the people. But what politicians - and many ordinary Americans - may not know is that some "grassroots" movements are actually sophisticated marketing campaigns financed by businesses and special-interest groups.
For example, Patients United Now (PUN), a group focused on health care, claims to be composed of "patients just like you" who are shocked at decisions being made in Washington by "big companies, lobbyists and politicians." In fact, PUN is a project of the Americans For Prosperity Foundation, launched by David Koch - a wealthy industrialist who opposes efforts to expand govern-mandated health benefits. ....
This would be an example of why I am not much of one for 'sources'. For that matter, why should this article be believed?
We are entering an information-explosion era. It is creating onehelluvalotta debris.
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While drafting major legislation on energy policy, health care, and the economy this term, members of Congress have been bombarded with phone calls, letters, e-mails, and petitions from constituents. So-called grassroots campaigns are often effective because they're thought to represent the will of the people. But what politicians - and many ordinary Americans - may not know is that some "grassroots" movements are actually sophisticated marketing campaigns financed by businesses and special-interest groups.
For example, Patients United Now (PUN), a group focused on health care, claims to be composed of "patients just like you" who are shocked at decisions being made in Washington by "big companies, lobbyists and politicians." In fact, PUN is a project of the Americans For Prosperity Foundation, launched by David Koch - a wealthy industrialist who opposes efforts to expand govern-mandated health benefits. ....
This would be an example of why I am not much of one for 'sources'. For that matter, why should this article be believed?
We are entering an information-explosion era. It is creating onehelluvalotta debris.
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